CARS 2025 Topics

39^th International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology (CAR)

Chair: Ulrich Bick, MD (DE)

• Medical Imaging, e.g. DR, CT, MR, Virtual Endoscopy, US, SPECT, PET and Molecular Imaging
• Computer Assisted Cardiovascular Imaging
• Image Processing and Visualization
• Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
• Interventional Radiology
• Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy of the Prostate
• Ablation Therapies
• Image Guided Radiation Therapy
• Nanotechnology for Imaging and Therapy
• Telemedicine, E-health and Multimedia EPR
• Expert Systems and Computer Assisted Education
• PACS Architecture, Workstation Design and Workflow
• Image Distribution, Storage and Archiving Strategies
• Interoperability and Standardization
• Managing Radiation Dose and Contrast Media
• Clinical Decision Support Systems

29^th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS)

President: Kensaku Mori, PhD (JP)
General Secretary: Cristian A. Linte, PhD (US)

• Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality for Surgery and Interventions
• Image Processing and Visualization
• Intraoperative Devices and Sensors
• Intraoperative Imaging
• Computer-assisted Planning
• Surgical Navigation
• Navigated Control
• Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation
• 3D Modelling and Rapid Prototyping
• Methods of Validation and Verification
• Evaluation of CAS Systems
• Postoperative Result Assessment
• Surgical Knowledge and Decision Management
• Decision and Action Support in Surgical Management
• Situation Awareness in the OR
• Surgical Skill Assessment
• Surgical Workflow Analysis
• Surgical Simulation, Education and Training
• Ergonomics, User Interfaces, Haptics and Multimodal Devices in Surgical Applications
• Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Surgery
• Computer aided surgery in neuro, ENT, orthopaedic and spinal, cardiovascular, thoracic, gastroenterological, gynaecological, and urological surgery
• Image Guided Navigation Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery
• Image Guided Therapy

27^th International Conference on Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Artificial Intelligence (CAD-AI)

Chair: Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (US)

• Deep Learning / Machine Learning
• Radiomics
• CAD for Precision Medicine
• 3D Printing
• Grand Challenges in CAD
• Quantitative Imaging
• Risk Assessment
• Decision Support Systems
• Comparative Evaluation and Fusing CAD systems
• Content-based Image Retrieval
• Observer Performance Studies
• Clinical Evaluation
• Cloud CAD
• CAD for Breast, Lung, Colon and Gastrointestinal Tract, Eye/Retina, Head and Neck, Liver, Prostate, Musculoskeletal, (Cardio-)Vascular, Multiple Organ Systems, and Dentistry
• CAD for Oncology
• CAD for Histopathology and Microscopy

31^st Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress (CMI)

Chair: Christos Angelopoulos, PhD (US)
Co-chair: Samir C. Aboul-Hosn Centenero, MD, PhD (ES)

• New Imaging Devices and Novel Applications
• Evidence-based Selection Criteria in Digital Maxillofacial Imaging
• Craniomaxillofacial Computer-Aided Diagnosis
• Maxillofacial Image Processing
• Cranial and Maxillofacial Image Guided Surgery
• Image Navigated Dental Implantology
• Orthodontic and Endodontic Applications of Computed Imaging
• Imaging and Modelling for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics
• Cone Beam and Multislice CT
• Maxillofacial MRI and Ultrasound Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Image Fusion and Subtraction
• 3D and 4D Imaging
• Multi-dimensional Maxillofacial Modelling
• Virtual Reality and Dental Robotics
• Interoperability and Maxillofacial Applications in IHE

16^th Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Intervention (IPCAI)

General Chairs: Stamatia Giannarou, PhD (GB), Orçun Göksel, PhD (SE), Nicolas Padoy, PhD (FR)

• Surgical Data Science
• Interventional Imaging
• Systems and Software
• Evaluation and Validation
• Tracking and Navigation
• Interventional Robotics
• Surgical Planning and Simulation
• Advanced Intra-operative Visualization and User Interfaces
• Augmented Reality for Medical Applications
• Surgical Skill Analysis and Workflow

26^th IFCARS / SPIE / ISCAS Joint Workshop on the Digital Operating Room (DOR)

Chairs: Yoshihiro Muragaki, MD (JP), Kevin Cleary, PhD (US)

• Surgical Workflow
• Intelligent Operating Room
• Therapy Imaging and Model Management Systems (TIMMS)
• Surgical PACS
• Interoperability, DICOM and IHE in Surgery
• Management and Assessment of OR Systems Integration
• Architectures of ORs and Interventional Suite

7^th ISCAS / CAD / IFCARS Joint Symposium on Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy (MCA)

Chairs: Makato Hashizume, MD (JP), Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (US), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (DE)

• Micro-computational Anatomy
• Physiological Modeling in Multi-computational Anatomy
• Surgery Using Multi-computational Anatomy
• Mathematical Foundation of Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy
• Robotics and Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy
• Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy Assisting Radiology

17^th CARS Clinical Day

Chairs: Leonard Berliner, MD (US), Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (US)

• Clinical Innovations in Imaging and Interventional Radiology
• Clinical Innovations in Surgery
• The Future: Impact of Engineering/Informatics in Radiology and Surgery
• Computer Assisted Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy
• Results of Innovative Clinical Investigations

2^nd Workshop on Model Guided Medicine and AI

Chairs: Dirk Wilhelm, MD (DE), Miguel Á. González Ballester, PhD (ES)

• Methods and tools for situational models, process models and network models for distributed model services
• Model truthfulness and transparency studies
• Medical information and model management systems (MIMMS)
• Model curation via intelligent handling of data, information, knowledge, models and handling of truth (wisdom)

For a limited time, the replay of the "1st Workshop on MGM, AI and the search for truth" which took place during CARS 2024 is available here

IFCARS / DGCH Joint Session on Model Guided Medicine and AI in Surgery

Chairs: Thomas Schmitz-Rixen, MD (DE), Heinz U. Lemke, PhD (DE)

• Multicentre AI models and associated clinical translational studies
• Model quality assurance, i.e model verification, validation and evaluation