CRAS 2020: 10th Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery UPC Barcelona, Spain, September 28-30, 2020 |
Conference website | https://cras-eu.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cras2020 |
Submission deadline | June 30, 2020 |
Surgical robotics is a key factor for the introduction of new surgical procedures not feasible otherwise, as well as for improving current procedures by providing new aiding tools that allow achieving more precision and other surgical performances. Robotics breaks into the Operating Room in an effective way in the XXI century and its progress, although still slow, has already reached a figure of 10.000 robots operating in hospitals worldwide. This year’s edition, coinciding with the CRAS 10th anniversary, will evidence an explosion of new surgical robots and other devices in different specialties, which until now were served by a unique manufacturer. This market expansion will breakthrough with the actual slow progress and will favor reaching a wider range of clinical centers.
In this 10th edition, communications are expected in advances in the following fields: virtual reality techniques applied to plan and assisted guidance; new techniques to introduce effective haptic feedback, new devices for less invasive surgery and to facilitate the execution of complex surgical tasks. CRAS 2020 is the 10th edition of this successful event. Formerly labeled as a workshop, from this 10th edition onwards CRAS has graduated and will continue to move forward as a `conference'.
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:
- 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
- Robotics in medical diagnosis
- Robotic systems in orthopedics
- Rehabilitation and assistive technologies
- Surgical training
- Tactile and haptic feedback
- Novel robotic hardware and sensors
- Variable stiffness robotic systems
- Novel interfaces
- Standardization and regulation
- System integration
- Safety and dependability
- Robotics in Radiology
- Soft Robotics for medical applications
- Visionary works and roadmaps
Paper submission: A 2 pages abstract template is available at the conference website: www.cras-eu.org
Submission deadline: 30 June 2020
The best papers will be invited to submit their work to a special issue in the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
Note that : due to the current health emergency, the organization will adapt to the situation offering the option for on-line participation or if necessary totally on-line depending on the pandemic evolution.