CRAS 2019: 9th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery Tower Genova Airport Hotel Genoa, Italy, March 21-22, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.cras-eu.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cras2019 |
Submission deadline | January 10, 2019 |
CRAS - Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery
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.
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. To this end, the ninth edition of CRAS will bring engineers and surgeons together to exchange experiences, ideas and rethink the future of surgical technologies.
One event, two conferences - merged together!
For the first time, the Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) will be completely merged with the National Congress of the Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (SPIGC) in a large conference dedicated to ENCOURAGE YOUNG SURGEONS AND ENGINEERS. This will be a unique opportunity for multi-cultural interactions, for identifying surgical needs and potential engineering solutions, and for the establishment of new multi-disciplinary collaborations.
CRAS+SPIGC 2019 aims to foster the transformation of surgery into an INNOVATIVE, INTERACTIVE, TECHNOLOGICAL and EDUCATIONAL process through joint sessions, round-tables and live surgery discussions focused at technological innovations.
Submission Guidelines
In this joint multi-disciplinary conference, science and engineering presentations will be embedded into closely related medically-oriented sessions. In addition, all research teams working on novel surgical technologies will have the opportunity to demonstrate their prototypes during the conference and enter the New Surgical Technologies Competition.
The solicited contributions include:
- Extended abstracts (required)
- Novel surgical technology demonstrations (optinal)
Topics of Interest
Extended abstracts (2 pages) discussing new technologies for computer/robot assisted surgery are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Novel robotic hardware and sensors
- Robotics in medical diagnosis
- Robotics in Radiology
- Robotic systems in orthopaedics
- Rehabilitation and assistive technologies
- Variable stiffness robotic systems
- Tactile and haptic feedback
- Motion compensation and active guidance
- Human-robot collaboration and shared control
- Systems integration
- Novel interfaces
- Usability and user-acceptance
- Safety and dependability
- Surgical training
- Surgical skill assessment
- Machine learning and cognitive surgical robotics
- Registration, segmentation, modelling and data mining
- Synergies and clustering
- Workflow analysis and episode segmentation
- Standardization and regulation
- Visionary works and roadmaps
Submission Dates
- Deadline for extended abstracts:10 January 2019 (EXTENDED)
- Notification of acceptance: 27 January 2019
- Registration of demonstrations: 31 January 2019
Abstract Guidelines
Length of Abstract: Maximum of 2 pages, with figures
Paper size: A4 Size (210 mm x 297 mm)
Leave a 25mm margin at top and bottom of the page, and a 20mm margin at left and right sides
Template available at: www.cras-eu.org
CRAS 2019 Organising Committee
Members of the CRAS Organising Committee support in the organisation of the workshop. They distribute the call for papers among peers. They engage in the reviewing process and safeguard the quality of the accepted contributions. The CRAS 2019 organising committee consist of the following people.
Salih Abdelaziz (LIRMM - Université de Montpellier) |
Brian Davies (ICL, IIT) | Matteo Laffranchi (IIT) | Benoit Herman (UCLouvain) |
Helge Wurdemann (UCL) |
Alperen Acemoglu (IIT) | Elena De Momi (POLIMI) |
Chao Liu (LIRMM - CNRS) |
Tim Horeman (TU Delft) | Nabil Zemiti (LIRMM - Université de Montpellier) |
Kaspar Althoefer (Queen Mary University of London) |
Kathleen Denis (KU Leuven) | Leonardo Mattos (IIT) |
Pierre Jannin (Université de Rennes) | Loredana Zollo (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) |
Christos Bergeles (UCL) | Nikhil Deshpande (IIT) |
Evangelos Mazomenos (UCL) | Jelizaveta Konstantinova(Queen Mary University of London) | |
Gianni Borghesan (KU Leuven) | Giancarlo Ferrigno (POLIMI) | Arianna Menciassi (SSSA, Pisa) |
Philippe Poignet (LIRMM - Université de Montpellier) |
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Alicia Casals (IBEC) |
Fanny Ficuciello (Univ. Napoli) |
Sara Moccia (Università Politecnica delle Marche, IIT) | E. Vander Poorten (KU Leuven) | |
Zhuoqi Cheng (IIT) | Paolo Fiorini (Univ. Verona) | George Mylonas (ICL) |
Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena (ICL) | |
Gastone Ciuti (SSSA) |
Ioannis Georgilas (University of Bath) |
Ilana Nisky (Ben-Gurion Univ) | Benoit Rosa (ICube, Strasbourg) | |
Giulio Dagnino (ICL) | Edward Grant (NCSU) |
Sebastien Ourselin (UCL) | Bruno Siciliano (Univ. Napoli) | |
Jenny Dankelman (TU Delft) | Yassine Haddab (LIRMM - Université de Montpellier) |
Veronica Penza (IIT) | Danail Stoyanov (UCL) |
Contact
Questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Leonardo Mattos: leonardo.mattos@iit.it