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MICCAI 2008 Workshop
Needle Steering: Recent Results and Future Opportunities
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- Location: New York, NY
- Date: September 6, 2008
- Time: 8am - 5pm
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the biomedical engineering, imaging, and robotics communities to discuss recent results and open problems in the development of medical needle steering technologies. Needle insertion is a critical step in many diagnostic and therapeutic medical procedures, from biopsies to anesthesia injections to brachytherapy cancer treatment. Due to their improved maneuverability, steerable needles have the potential to enable clinicians to accurately and precisely insert needles to targets previously inaccessible to traditional stiff needles. The purpose of this workshop is to serve as a comprehensive forum to discuss all aspects of the development of steerable needles. The oral presentations and posters will cover a variety of topics including modeling needle/tissue interaction, simulation, planning and control, hardware system design, image-guidance, and clinical application.
Organizers
- Allison M. Okamura, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
- Ron Alterovitz, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Format
The workshop will be held all day on Saturday, September 6, 2008. The workshop will consist of ten 25-minute talks, a 1-hour poster session, and a 1-hour panel session to discuss open problems. These will be distributed throughout the day along with breaks to maximize discussion between attendees.
The presentations of the invited speakers will be distributed to the attendees on CD-ROM at the workshop. Other workshop attendees will be invited to submit posters that will be presented during the poster session and included on the workshop CD-ROM.
Invited Speakers
- Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University
- Noah Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
- Pierre Dupont, Boston University
- Gabor Fichtinger, Queens University
- Ken Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley
- Rajni Patel, University of Western Ontario
- Cam Riviere, Carnegie Mellon University
- Tim Salcudean, University of British Columbia
- Moshe Shoham, Technion
- Robert Webster, Vanderbilt University
Posters
Abstracts should be submitted by email to aokamura@jhu.edu by May 31, 2008. The abstract submission should include, in the text of the email: (1) poster title, (2) list of authors and affiliations, (3) a 150-300 word abstract, (4) references to your own related work, (5) relevant web links, and (6) a figure caption. The figure (in jpeg, gif, or png formats) should be an attachment to the email. An example abstract is shown here. Submissions will be accepted for a poster presentation based on relevance to the workshop, quality, and available space. The abstracts of accepted posters will be published on the workshop web site.
Important Dates
- May 31, 2008 - Deadline for abstract submission for poster presenters (see below for instructions)
- July 14, 2008 - Notification to poster presenters
- July 31, 2008 - Final abstracts due for poster presenters
- September 6, 2008 - Workshop date
