CRAS 2018: The 8th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery Queen Mary University of London London, UK, September 10-11, 2018 |
Conference website | https://www.cras-eu.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cras2018 |
Submission deadline | July 14, 2018 |
Final abstract submission | August 10, 2018 |
Early registration | August 11, 2018 |
Registration website | https://b-com.mci-group.com/CommunityPortal/Registration/18CRALON.aspx?registrantID=d2d93fd3-b9a6-4ad3-b1be-04270e95e790 |
The 8th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) seeks to give a clear view on the status and recent trends of assistive surgical robotic technologies. It aims to support and propose concrete measures to accelerate research and innovation in this field. CRAS originates from efforts to collaborate with European groups to achieve a critical mass in surgical robotics. As such the workshop continues on discussions started at ERF in Lyon and at ICRA in Karlsruhe, and previous meetings at Verona and Genoa. More, in particular, CRAS attempts to identify the steps necessary to stimulate cooperation between research and industry, across national borders and different surgical robotic projects to take advantage of the growing attention and support for research and exploitation in this interesting and growing field.
Robotic surgery is one of the most appealing fields of modern robotics. With over 3 decades history, more than 3.800 systems installed worldwide and over 600.000 robot-assisted interventions conducted per year, the field of robotic surgery is considered well-established. Despite these impressive figures and increasing popularity in research labs all over the world, the list of technological advances that made it into the operating room (OR) during this last decade is fairly limited. Long expected techniques such as 3D reconstruction, motion compensation, virtual guidance, haptic feedback, under study in many labs all over the planet did not make their appearance into the market yet.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Extended Abstracts (2 pages): The authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work as a talk, or during a poster session.
The authors of the best-selected papers will be invited to submit full papers to the 2018 CRAS special issue in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, under the Biomedical Robotics section.
- Exhibits/sponsors (cras2018@mci-group.com): Companies are invited to engage with our community by displaying products and services that relate to haptics.
List of Topics
- Machine learning and cognitive surgical robotics
- Registration, segmentation, modelling and data mining
- Synergies and clustering
- Motion compensation and active guidance
- Human-robot collaboration and shared control
- Workflow analysis and episode segmentation
- Surgical skill assessment
- Usability and user-acceptance
- Surgical training
- Tactile and haptic feedback
- Rehabilitation and assistive technologies
- Novel robotic hardware and sensors
- Variable stiffness robotic systems
- Novel interfaces
- Standardization and regulation
- System integration
- Safety and dependability
- Robotics in Medical Diagnostics
- Robotic systems in orthopaedics
- Robotics in Radiology
- Visionary works and roadmaps
Committees
Organizing Committee
- Salih Abdelaziz
(LIRMM) - Giancarlo Ferrigno
(POLIMI) -
Benoit Herman
(UCLouvain) - Philippe Poignet
(LIRMM) - Selene Tognarelli
(SSSA) - Kaspar Althoefer
(Queen Mary) - Fanny Ficuciello
(Univ. Napoli) - Chao Liu
(LIRMM) - Angelika Peer
(University of the West of England) - E. Vander Poorten
(KU Leuven) - Alicia Casals
(IBEC) - Paolo Fiorini
(Univ. Verona) - Leonardo Mattos
(IIT) - Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena
(ICL) - Tom Vercauteren
(UCL) - Gastone Ciuti
(SSSA) - Stamatia Giannarou
(ICL) - Arianna Menciassi
(SSSA, Pisa) - Benoit Rosa
(ICube, Strasbourg) - Valentina Vitiello
(UCL) - Brian Davies
(ICL, IIT) - Edward Grant
(NCSU) - Sarthak Misra
(Univ. of Twente) - Ulrich Seibold
(DLR) - Helge Wurdemann
(UCL) - Elena De Momi
(POLIMI) - Yassine Haddab
(LIRMM) - Guillaume Morel
(ISIR, Paris) - Bruno Siciliano
(Univ. Napoli) - Nabil Zemiti
(LIRMM) - Nikhil Deshpande
(IIT) - Tamas Haidegger
(Obuda Univ.) - George Mylonas
(ICL) - Danail Stoyanov
(UCL)
Steering Committee
- Paolo Fiorini
(Universita' di Verona) - Leonardo Mattos
(Italian Institute of Technology) - E. Vander Poorten
(KU Leuven)
Venue
The 8th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery will be hosted in London at the Centre for Advanced robotics @ Queen Mary University of London.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed Prof Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena.