M2CAI 2014 - Fifth Workshop on Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions (M2CAI)

After the successful workshops on "Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions (M2CAI)" in London 2009, Toronto 2011, Nice 2012, and Nagoya, 2013, the fifth M2CAI workshop aims to boost this well-established forum for discussing advanced methods for acquisition, analysis, modeling, and monitoring of surgical/ interventional processes. Although the surgical process is a complex assembly of surgical knowledge and skill, models for interventional care are essential to improving the effectiveness of training and execution of surgical procedures, standardization of surgery and intervention, and optimization of operating room management. Integration of all information concerning anatomy of patient, diagnostic information, operational status of medical devices, and action of surgical staff is necessary for future context-aware operating room, and cutting-edge sensor system, information processing algorithm, statistical model, and so on should be adopted for detailed analysis of the surgical workflow. This workshop will establish a new generation of context-aware Computer Assisted Intervention (CAI) systems.
The workshop will gather clinicians, researchers and medical companies to discuss issues and solutions on the acquisition, analysis, modeling, and monitoring of computer assisted interventions. A wide variety of elemental technologies, integration, and implementation are essential for context-aware Operating Room of the Future. The topics to be covered by the workshop include:
Visual perception and attention
Context-aware operating rooms
Context-aware robotic assistance
Modeling/Representation of surgical procedures
Modeling for surgical simulation, training, and assessment
Modeling for surgical workflow evaluation and optimization
Recognition of surgical steps / actions / events
Semantic analysis of surgical interventions
Surgical sensor networks
Surgical skills assessment
Surgical data mining
Automatic surgery documentation