iOR16

Call for Papers

The operation room is the most expensive area in hospitals. To optimize operating room management, connected devices which are communicating and sharing data with other peripheral devices are necessary. By analyzing available data of these connected devices, actions of surgical staff and other data in the operating room and parallel matching of all available data with dedicated workflow models, will make context-aware operating rooms possible. These context-aware operating rooms could help to prevent surgical errors i.e. by automated detection of deviations from the standard processes or even automate counting of consumables and prevent them from being remained in the patients´ cavity.

This workshop covers the acquisition, analysis, as well as modeling and monitoring of surgical processes and the integration of all information acquired during anamnesis, i.e. anatomy of patient, diagnostic information, etc. in process models. To achieve the main goal of a context-aware operating rooms, a close cooperation of clinicians, researchers and engineers is necessary. Therefore this will be an interdisciplinary workshop, interactive demonstrations are welcome.

The topics to be covered by the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Context-aware operating rooms

• Modeling of surgical procedures

• Recognition of surgical steps

• Ontologies for surgery

• Interoperability of devices in the operating room

• Standards for data sharing of different medical devices

• Surgical data acquisition

• Intuitive/ adaptive user interfaces for medical devices

• Data mining in surgery

• Surgical sensor networks

• Automatic surgery documentation

• Automated operating room management/scheduling

General Chairs

Dr. Ing. Armin Schneider

TU Muenchen, Germany

Daniel Ostler, MSc.

TU Muenchen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Christoph Thuemmler

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Program Commitee

PD Dr. med. Michael Kranzfelder

TU Muenchen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumuth

ICCAS Leipzig, Germany

Dr. John J. van den Dobbelsteen

TU Delft, Netherlands

Dr. med. Hannes Kenngott

Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany

Dipl.-Inf. Ralf Stauder

TU Muenchen, Germany

Dipl.-Ing. Nils Kohn

TU Muenchen, Germany

Dr. Ai Keow Lim Jumelle

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Dr. Alois Paulin

TU Wien, Austria

Swaroop Nunna

Huawei, Germany

Prof. Bill Buchanan

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Thomas Jell

Siemens, Germany