SPIE Medical Imaging 2012

The annual SPIE Medical Imaging took place in San Diego this year. It is a much more convenient location than the Disney resort from last year (and the venue for 2013 and 2015 again). SPIE Medical Imaging celebrated its 40th birthday, with a lot of sessions on history.  The conference was not as busy or full of ground-breaking reserach reports, rather a fine meeting of all the professionals. Most of the US surgical robotics people attended, or at least, the labs were well represented.

Some of the highlight of the CIS papers (the complete proceedings is here):

• Keynote presentation from Dr. Taylor: Medical robotics and computer-integrated interventional medicine (you can watch a previous talk here)
• Does a robotic scrub nurse improve economy of movements?  
• A high accuracy multi-image registration methodfor tracking MRI-guided robot 
• A networked modular hardware and software system for MRI-guided robotic prostate interventions
• The role of three-dimensional visualization in robotics-assisted cardiac surgery   
• Information overlay in endoscopic skull base surgery
• Application of unscented Kalman filter for robust pose estimation in image-guided surgery  
• A quantitative assessment of using the Kinect for Xbox360TM for respiratory surface motion tracking   
• A novel fully automatic system for the evaluation of electromagnetic tracker  
• Repeatable Assessment Protocol for Electromagnetic Trackers 
• Calibration and Evaluation of a Magnetically Tracked ICE Probe
• US training device with visual overlay
• Enabling technologies for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (N.O.T.E.S) using robotically guided elasticity imaging  
• Deformable 3D catheter reconstruction using nonrigid structure-from-motion and a robotics model   
• System for robot-assisted real-time laparoscopic ultrasound elastography  
• Magnetic resonance imaging properties of multimodality anthropomorphic silicone rubber phantoms for validating surgical robots and image guided therapy systems  
•  FDA workshop: Updates to the 510(k) procedure
• International Patent Protection: Advice to the Science Enrepreneur

For more, browse the proceedings.