MICCAI 2007 Tutorial: Medical Augmented Reality

State of Art, Basic Technologies and Future Challenges

The tutorial reviews the state-of-the-art technology in medical augmented reality, points out the current bottlenecks and shows directions for future trends.

There is already a variety of medial AR systems based on quite different technologies. The tutorial will critically review the development over the past two decades and will encourage engineers and scientists to work towards solutions within this field. The survey includes the enabling technologies such as tracking, registration, and advanced visualization. Real-time fusion of intra-operative anatomical and functional imaging, as well as the focus on integration into surgical workflow turns this tutorial into a unique opportunity to get an overview of most advanced concepts in medical AR.

Program

Date & Time: Friday, November 2, 2007 2:00-5:00pm
Location: Brisbane, Australia (details will be provided soon)
Organizer: Nassir Navab - CAMP - Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures at TU Munich, Germany

• Introduction State-of-art, recent results and future challenges – Nassir Navab
• Medical talk Medical AR: A surgeon experience and point of view – Sandro-Michael Heining, M.D.
• Panel discussion: Experiences, Bottlenecks, and Tendencies - Philip "Eddie" Edwards, Terry Peters, Gabor Fichtinger, Stéphane Nicolau
• Medical AR the right place - Marco Feuerstein
• Medical AR the right time - Tobias Sielhorst
• Medical AR the roght way - Joerg Traub
• Live demo: Error Propagation

Participants receive course notes and software related to the hands-on experience.

Organizers and Speakers

• Nassir Navab, CAMP (Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures), TUM
• Tobias Sielhorst, CAMP (Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures), TUM
• Joerg Traub, CAMP (Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures), TUM
• Marco Feuerstein, CAMP (Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures), TUM
• Sandro-Michael Heining CAS (Computer Assisted Surgery Group), Klinikum Innenstadt, LMU
• Philip "Eddie" Edwards Imperial College London, UK
• Terry Peters Robarts Research Institute, Canada
• Gabor Fichtinger Queen's University, Canada
• Stéphane Nicolau IRCAD Strasbourg, France

Mission Statement

The tutorial will be designed to give young scientists the possibility to get a comprehensive summary of available technology and innovative ideas for designing medical augmented reality systems. One major message will be that the design of such systems strongly depends on the medical application. The tutorial will provide exemplary applications, in which different medical AR technologies need to be used to provide optimal outcome.

The tutorial will go into details of integration of not only anatomical but also functional imaging into the real-time AR visualization. This is a subject of high interest to the MICCAI community.

The discussion about current bottleneck includes the smooth integration into the medical workflow, 3D perception in an AR environment and accuracy considerations when augmenting deformable organs MICCAI has already hosted one tutorial on Medical AR in 2002 and two successful AMI-ARCS workshops in 2004 and 2006. We are aiming at organizing the AMI-ARCS workshop every other year and alternate this with a tutorial on Medical AR within the alternating MICCAI events.