Chairs: Malte Asseln (Twente University) & Luisa Berger (RWTH Aachen)
Speakers & Moderators: Gabriëlle Tuijthof
Further Participants: Members CAOS Focus Group Applied Biomechanics, ...guests welcome!

“CAOS Challenge on Landmark and Soft-Tissue Attachment Prediction”

The CAOS Biomechanics Focus Group proposes to set up a challenge to predict landmarks and
soft-tissue attachments by different research groups to stimulate work in this field. The
challenge is to use different (including but not limited to machine learning based) methods to
predict a set of pre-defined landmarks and soft-tissue attachments relevant for pre-operative
CAOS applications on (multiple) datasets. The participation of numerous research groups and
diverse approaches are encouraged.     

Objectives:
•    Stimulation of work on the prediction of landmarks and soft-tissue attachments
•    Provision of data sets and ground truth data
•    Benchmarking of different methods/ approaches
•    Development of a common position of the CAOS Biomechanics Focus Group
•    Development and deployment of open-source libraries
•    Publication of a ‘white paper’ reporting issues and solutions

The workshop will focus on the discussion of objectives, set-up, time lines and cooperation
agreement.

Guests are welcome!

This workshop of the CAOS Oncology Focus group will center on a discussion of the white paper that the focus group members are currently preparing. The white paper is preliminarily titled State of Affair White Paper on CAOS Oncology: margins and assessment, definitions, followup requirements. Workshop discussions will focus on agreeing on definitions and outcome measures.

The AI and Ultrasound for Orthopedic Surgery Workshop will present emerging Ultrasound and AI based techniques to improve orthopaedic surgery. Presentations will be given by three leading researchers in this area. 

Moderators: Ilker Hacihaliloglu & Tony Hodgson

Presenters: Manh Ta, Richard Tobias, Christopher Schlenger

Presentations

Title: 'Introduction of OrthosonicTM scanning for Creating Three-Dimensional Bones in Minutes for Component Sizing and Pre-Operative Planning'

Presenter: Manh Ta, Vice President, Research and Development, JointVue

Title: 'OpenSource Ultrasound'

Presenter: Richard Tobias, CEO/CTO, Cephasonics

Title: 'Tracked Point of Care Ultrasound-based Spine Imaging'

Presenter 1: Christopher Schlenger, President Verdure Imaging.

Presenter 2: Dr. Tamas Ungi, Assistant Professor Adjunct, School of Computing, Queen's University