CARS 2026 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery | 40th International Congress and Exhibition | July 2 – 5, Nagoya, Japan


International Journal for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS)

Editor-in-Chief

Heinz U. Lemke, PhD

Managing Editor (Editorial Office)

Franziska Schweikert (DE)

Deputy Editors

Leonard Berliner, MD (US)
Davide Caramella, MD (IT)
Xiaojun Chen, PhD (CN)
Kevin Cleary, PhD (US)
Andreas Dietz, MD, PhD (DE)
Randy E. Ellis, PhD (CA)
Volkmar Falk, MD, PhD (DE)
Allan G. Farman, PhD, DSc (US)
Gabor Fichtinger, PhD (CA)
Miguel Á. González Ballester, PhD (ES)
Lixu Gu, PhD (CN)
Makoto Hashizume, MD, PhD, FACS (JP)
Pierre Jannin, PhD (FR)
Leo Joskowicz, PhD (IL)
Brent J. Liu, PhD (US)
Kensaku Mori, PhD (JP)
Nassir Navab, PhD (DE)
Terry M. Peters, PhD (CA)
Osman M. Ratib, MD, PhD, FAHA (CH)
Achim Schweikard, PhD (DE)
Akinobu Shimizu, PhD (JP)
Stefanie Speidel, PhD (DE)
Danail Stoyanov, PhD (GB)
Russell H. Taylor, PhD (US)
Dirk Wilhelm, MD (DE)
Hiroyuki Yoshida, PhD (US)

Editorial Board

Purang Abolmaesumi, PhD (CA)
Samir Aboul-Hosn Centenero, MD, PhD (ES)
Russell J. Andrews, MD (US)
Christos Angelopoulos, DDS (GR)
Conrado Aparicio, PhD (ES)
Jumpei Arata, PhD (JP)
Eiichiro Ariji, DDS, PhD (JP)
Paulo Mazzoncini Azevedo-Marques, PhD (BR)
John S.H. Baxter, PhD (FR)
Maximilian Wolfgang Berlet, MD (DE)
Lukas Bernhard, PhD (DE)
Dirk Beyersdorff, MD, PhD (DE)
Ulrich Bick, MD (DE)
Uldis Bite, MD (US)
Leonard Simon Brandenburg, MD (DE)
Oliver Burgert, PhD (DE)
Ruey-Feng Chang, PhD (TW)
Mario A. Cypko, PhD (DE)
Elena De Momi, PhD (IT)
Stylianos Drisis, MD, PhD (BE)
Roy Eagleson, PhD (CA)
Caroline Essert, PhD (FR)
Andrey Fedorov, PhD (US)
Manuel Fernández Garrido, MD (ES)
Nils Daniel Forkert, PhD (CA)
Moti Freiman, PhD (IL)
Wolfgang Freysinger, PhD (AT)
Michael H. Friebe, PhD (PL)
Jonas Johannes Fuchtmann, MSc (DE)
Masakatsu G. Fujie, PhD (JP)
Hiroshi Fujita, PhD (JP)
Isabel Funke (DE)
Pablo Garcia Tahoces, PhD (ES)
Mónica García-Sevilla, PhD (ES)
Neil Glossop, PhD (CA)
Hugo Herrero Antón de Vez, MD (ES)
Arnaud Huaulmé, PhD (FR)
Juan A. Hueto Madrid, MD (ES)
Alissa Jell, MD (DE)
Takashi Kamio, PhD (JP)
Zafrulla Khan, DDS, MS (US)
Ron Kikinis, MD (US)
Fiona R. Kolbinger, MD (US)
Vassili Kovalev, PhD (BY)
Michael Kranzfelder, MD (DE)
Hongen Liao, PhD (CN)
Cristian A. Linte, PhD (US)
Rüdiger Marmulla, MD (DE)
Ken Masamune, PhD (JP)
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, PhD (DE)
Yukiko Matsuda, PhD, DDS (JP)
Mamoru Mitsuishi, PhD (JP)
Yoshihiro Muragaki, MD, PhD (JP)
Yoshikazu Nakajima, PhD (JP)
Thomas Neumuth, PhD (DE)
Jasper A. Nijkamp, PhD (DK)
Christopher Nimsky, MD (DE)
Yukihiro Nomura, PhD (JP)
Fridtjof Nüsslin, PhD (DE)
Masahiro Oda, PhD (JP)
Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, PhD (DE)
Daniel Ostler-Mildner, MSc (DE)
José Blas Pagador Carrasco, PhD (ES)
Bernhard Preim, PhD (DE)
Klaus Radermacher, PhD (DE)
Anke Reinschluessel, PhD (DE)
Stephen J. Riederer, PhD (US)
Danny Ruijters, PhD (NL)
Sylvia Saalfeld, PhD (DE)
Ichiro Sakuma, PhD (JP)
Luisa F. Sánchez Peralta, PhD (ES)
Alice M. L. Santilli, MSc (US)
Yoshinobu Sato, PhD (JP)
Till Nikolaus Schnabel, PhD (CH)
Armin Schneider, PhD (DE)
Rainer Schubert, MD (AT)
Ramin Shahidi, PhD (US)
Reuben R. Shamir, PhD (IL)
Matthäus Stöhr, MD (DE)
Geert J. Streekstra, PhD (NL)
Nobuhiko Sugano, MD, PhD (JP)
Shin-ichi Tamura, PhD (JP)
Thorsten Tjardes, MD (DE)
Jayaram K. Udupa, PhD (US)
Maarten J.A. van Alphen, PhD (NL)
Theo van Walsum, PhD (NL)
Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (US)
Ina Vernikouskaya, PhD (DE)
Sergi Vidal-Sicart, MD, PhD (ES)
Gabriele von Voigt, PhD (DE)
Lars Wagner, MSc (DE)
Andreas Wahle, PhD (US)
Thomas Wendler, PhD (DE)
Gerlig Widmann, MD (AT)
Takaharu Yamazaki, PhD (JP)
Kitaro Yoshimitsu, PhD (JP)
Guoyan Zheng, PhD (CN)