Overview

Surgical robotic tools and digitally enhanced operating theaters have been giving surgeons a helping hand for years. While they provide great control, precision and flexibility to the surgeons, they don’t yet address the cognitive assistance needs in the operating theater. We are on the verge of a new wave of innovations of artificial intelligence powered, context-aware operating theaters. This workshop aims to highlight the potential use of machine vision and perception, robotics, surgical simulation and modeling, multi-modal data fusion and visualization, image analysis, advanced imaging, advanced display technologies, human-computer interfaces, sensors, wearable and implantable electronics and robots, visual attention models, cognitive models, decision support networks to enhance surgical procedural assistance, context-awareness and team communication in the operating theater, human-robot collaborative systems, and surgical training and assessment in defining the technologies of the next generation operating theatres.

OR 2.0 will be held in conjunction with the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) conference, and will take place in Granada, Spain. OR 2.0 has its roots in M2CAI workshop series which started in 2009 in London (UK) and has been organized every year until 2016 in Athens, however is a movement of the domain towards multidisciplinary approaches and teams with a focus on translation and clinical applications that will define operating room technologies of the future. The workshop will feature clinicians, engineers and industry partners. All students and researchers interested in the future technologies that will define the next generation operating theatres, regardless of experience, are invited. Accepted papers will be published jointly with MICCAI 2018 in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Proceedings Volume. 

OR 2.0 will feature keynote speakers, research talks from paper submissions, a poster session, best paper/poster awards (a total of $2000 in prizes is sponsored by Intuitive Surgical), and a open discussion forum of OR 2.0 context-aware operating theatre technologies and their clinical impact.

Call for Papers
 

Full paper submissions of 4-8 pages will be featured. Oral and poster papers will be accepted. Eligible oral paper authors will present their work as part of the workshop program, while both oral and poster papers will be featured at poster session during coffee break. The distinction between oral and posters will be made by the board according to reviews and relevance to the theme of the workshop. The number of accepted papers will be based on quality of the submissions, number of submissions and time constraints of the program. Best paper/posters will be awarded [a total of $2000 in prizes for best papers/posters]. All participants will have a chance to actively participate in the open forum discussion. 

The featured topics of the OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theatres are, but not limited to, as below:

• Machine vision and perception
• Robotics
• Surgical simulation and modeling
• Cognitive models
• Multi-modal data fusion and visualization
• Image analysis
• Advanced imaging
• Advanced display technologies
• Human-computer interfaces
• Sensors
• Wearable and implantable electronics and robots
• Visual attention models
• Decision support networks to enhance surgical procedural assistance
• Context-awareness and team communication in the operating theater
• Human-robot collaborative systems
• Surgical training and assessment

Author Submissions

• [New] The review process is double blind and submissions should conform to the MICCAI anonymity guidelines. Please do not forget to anonymize the file names of your submissions. If you wish to upload your paper on Arxiv, you may do so. However your paper should stand alone without any supplementary material and/or reference to an ArXiv post.
• Please submit your submissions to us as a single pdf @ https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/OR2018 
• LNCS templates will be used for paper submissions. You can find author guidelines for this format here: LNCS Author Guidelines
• You can download the templates following the links:  Latex (preferred) or Word 
• Please keep your original latex or word files with supporting materials (images, tables, references etc.), we will need them for camera-ready submissions for the joint proceedings.
• Papers should present original scientific material in English text, featuring overview/motivation, material and methods, experiments, results and conclusions.

 
Organizing Board
 

 
Advisory Board
 

Important Dates

*All deadlines are at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time [PDT]

• [7th March 2018] OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters MICCAI'18 Satellite Workshop Event Accepted
• [26th March 2018] OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters Website Live
• [1st April 2018] Call for Papers
• [21th June 2018] (Final) Paper Submission deadline
• [9th July 2018 (new date: 17th of July)] Notice of Acceptance - We are awaiting reviews,  tentative new date is 14th of July.
• [end of July] Camera-ready papers for joint MICCAI proceedings

• MICCAI 2018 Website
• Registration
• Granada, Spain
  • Venue
    • Venue for OR 2.0 [Press Room at the Conference Center]
    • Schedule for OR 2.0 [Sunday 16th of September afternoon session]
  • Useful Information for Granada, Spain
  • Passport and Visa Information
• Accommodation 
• Social and Professional Events organized by the MICCAI Student Board
  • Social Activities
  • Academia - Industry Event
  • Sports and Dance Activities

The workshop will take place in the afternoon of Sunday, 16th September 2018 at the "Press Room" at the Conference Center venue. For more details, please check http://www.miccai2018.org/en/16-SEPTEMBER-SATELLITE-EVENTS.html

3:00 Opening

3:05 Keynote Talk by Dr. Nicolas Padoy titled "Monitoring Surgical Activities with Artificial Intelligence"

3:35 Oral Presentation “FaceOff: Anonymizing Videos in the Operating Rooms”, Evangello Flouty (Digital Surgery)*; Odysseas Zisimopoulos (Digital Surgery); Danail Stoyanov (Touch Surgery)” 

3:50 Oral Presentation “Temporal coherence-based self-supervised learning for laparoscopic workflow analysis”, Isabel Funke (National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden)*; Alexander Jenke (National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden); Sören Torge Mees (University Hospital of Dresden); Jürgen Weitz (University Hospital of Dresden); Stefanie Speidel (National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden); Sebastian Bodenstedt (National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden)”  

4:05 Poster Teasers

“Intelligent Interruption Management System to Enhance Safety and Performance in Complex Surgical and Robotic Procedures”, Roger Daglius Dias (Stratus Center for Medical Simulation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)*; Heather Conboy (University of Massachusetts); Jennifer Gabany (Division of Cardiac Surgery, VA Healthcare System, Boston); Lori Clarke (University of Massachusetts); Leon Osterweil (University of Massachusetts); George Avrunin (University of Massachusetts); David Arney (MGH); Julian Goldman (MGH); Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento); Steven Yule (STRATUS Center for Simulation, Brigham & Women's Hospital); Marco A Zenati (Harvard Medical School)

“Interactive Training and Operation Ecosystem for Surgical Tasks in Mixed Reality”, Ehsan Azimi (Johns Hopkins University)*; Camilo Molina (Johns Hopkins University); Alexander Chang (Johns Hopkins University); Judy Huang (Johns Hopkins University); Chien-Ming Huang (Johns Hopkins University); Peter Kazanzides (Johns Hopkins University)

“A Novel Interoperable Safety System for Improved Coordination and Communication in Cardiac Surgery”, David Arney (MGH)*; Geoffrey Rance (VA); Marco A Zenati (Harvard Medical School); Julian Goldman (MGH); Srey Rithy (VA)

“Automatic Cochlear Length and Volume Size Estimation”, Ibraheem Al-Dhamari (University of Koblenz and Landau)*; Sabine Bauer (University of Koblenz and Landau); Dietrich Paulus (n/a); Rania Helal (ASU); Friedrich Lisseck (BWZK Koblenz); Roland Jacob (BWZK Koblenz)

“Generalized planning of nonlinear interventions”, Johannes L Fauser (TU Darmstadt)*; Igor Stenin (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf); Julia Kristin (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf); Thomas Klenzner (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf); Jörg Schipper (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf); Dieter Fellner (Technische Universität Darmstadt); Anirban Mukhopadhyay (TU Darmstadt)

4:30 – 5:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

5:00 Keynote Talk by Marco A. Zenati, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School titled "Modeling of Team Performance in Complex and Robotic Surgery"

5:30 Oral Presentation “A method for the context-aware assignment of medical device functions to input devices in integrated operating rooms”, Stefan Franke (Universität Leipzig)*; Max Rockstroh (Universität Leipzig); Martin Kasparick (Universität Rostock); Thomas Neumuth (Universität Leipzig)”

5:45 Oral Presentation “Perioperative workflow simulation and optimization in orthopedic surgery”, Juliane Neumann (Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS), Leipzig University)*

6:00 Oral Presentation “Performance Evaluation to Improve Training in Forceps-Assisted Delivery”,Mónica García-Sevilla (Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón )*; Juan De Leon (Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon); Rafael Moreta-Martinez (Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón); David García-Mato (Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón); Rubén Pérez Mañanes (Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón); Jose Antonio Calvo Haro (Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón); Javier Pascau (Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón)”

6:15  Oral Presentation “Clinical trial of information acquisition system for surgical instruments in digital operation room”, Kaori Kusuda (Tokyo Women's Medical University)*; Kazuhiko Yamashita (Osaka University); Yoshitomo Ito (Saiseikai Kurihashi Hospital); Kiyohito Tanaka (Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital); Ken Masamune (Tokyo Women's Medical University); Yoshihiro Muragaki (Tokyo Women's Medical University)

6:30 – 7:00 Closing Remarks, Discussion and Awards

We are looking for Sponsors. If you would like to sponsor our event for vouchers for students and keynote speakers, please contact us.
For inquiries about the event, please contact us via or20miccai@gmail.com
For submissions, please follow the page: Submissions