Hauptseminar: Recent Advances in Computer Assisted Surgery

Nassir Navab, Tobias Blum, Lejing Wang, Tobias Reichl

Type: Advanced Seminar Course Module IN8901
Type: Master Seminar Module IN2107
Type: Seminar Module IN0014
SWS: 2+0
ECTS: 4 Credits
Course Language: English

We will have an initial meeting on October 26, 2010 12:00 in room MI 03.13.010. All details an the schedule for the seminar will be discussed there.

Content

The seminar's participants will get a comprehensive insight into the latest developments and advances of computer assisted surgery. Several cutting-edge categories such as segmentation, registration, robotics, simulation and rendering, as well as interventional imaging applied in orthopaedic, cardiac, abdominal, and other applications will be covered. The talks will be based on the latest proceedings of medical and computer science conferences.

The topics of the seminar will cover a selection of outstanding and interesting papers of recent proceedings of important medical and computational conferences such as MICCAI - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.

Registration

To register please send an email to Tobias Blum(), including your favorite topic, your name, your birthday, program of study and Matrikelnummer.

A resignation from the seminar can be performed until October 18, 2010.

Schedule

Date	Topic	By	Supervision	Material	Place
October 26, 2010, 12:00	Introduction	Tobias Blum		Introduction	MI 03.13.010
January 17, 2011, 18:00	Wong et al. - Spinal Cord Stress Injury Assessment (SCOSIA): Clinical applications of mechanical modeling of the spinal cord and brainstem	Mehtap Yuecel	Tobias Blum		MI 03.13.010
	Carter et al. - MR Navigated Breast Surgery: Method and Initial Clinical Experience	Pinar Özbay	Tobias Blum
January 24, 2011, 18:00	Joung et al. - A robot assisted hip fracture reduction with a navigation system	Loina Prifti	Lejing Wang		MI 03.13.010
January 31, 2011, 18:00	Nakamoto et al. - Realtime Organ Tracking for Endoscopic Augmented Reality Visualization using Miniature Wireless Magnetic Tracker	Michael Löckler	Tobias Reichl		MI 03.13.010
	Otake et al. - An Iterative Framework for Improving the Accuracy of Intraoperative Intensity-Based 2D/3D Registration for Image-Guided Orthopedic Surgery	Philipp Willmertinger	Lejing Wang

Essay/Talk

Presentation (about 30-45min) followed by a discussion. Essay (10 pages) including all references used. The essay and presentation have to be done in English for Hauptseminars and German or English for Proseminars. The essay must be written in your own words and not by copy and paste.

For Windows users:

• install miktex - TeX implementation for Microsoft Windows
• install TeXnicCenter - integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows
• Use the The Not So Short Introduction to LaTex to get started with LaTex.
• Use this latex template for the essay.

Your talk:

• Please use this PPT template.
• How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students by Ian Parberry
• The outline should be sent to the supervisor four weeks before the presentation.
• The presentation slides and essay should be finalized and discussed with the supervisor one week before the presentation.
• The essay is due at the day of the last presentation of the seminar.

Literature and Helpful Links

A lot of scientific publications can be found online.

The following list may help you to find some further information on your particular topic:

• Microsoft Academic Search
• Google Scholar
• CiteSeer
• CiteULike
• Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Some publishers:

• ScienceDirect (Elsevier Journals)
• IEEE Journals
• ACM Digital Library

Libraries (online and offline):

• http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/ (Elektronische Zeitschriften Bibliothek)
• Verbundkatalog des Bibliotheksverbundes Bayern (BVB)
• Computer ORG
• http://www.ub.tum.de/ (TUM Library)
  • To get access onto the electronic library, see http://www.ub.tum.de/medien/ejournals/readme.html
  • "proxy.biblio.tu-muenchen.de" mit Port 8080 (nur fuer http). Damit klappen zumindest portal.acm.org und computer.org meistens
• Various proceedings of conferences in our AR-Lab, 03.13.036 (These proceedings are not for lending!)

Some further hints for working with references:

• JabRef is a Java program for comfortable working with Bibtex literature databases. Handy feature: if you know the PubMed ID for an article, JabRef can import data from there (via "Web Search/Medline").
• Mendeley is a cross-platform program for organising your references.

If you find useful resources that are not already listed here, please tell us, so we can add them for others. Thanks.