Proceedings

The MICCAI workshop on Image Guidance and Computer Assistance for Soft-Tissue Interventions, IGSTI08, was held at the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of New York University, New York City, USA on September 10, 2008.

The goal of the workshop was to bring together researchers in interventional and surgical image guidance and to discuss recent advances concerning the support for soft-tissue surgery and interventions. While navigation techniques are clinically established in orthopedic and neurosurgery, the use of image guidance in soft-tissue interventions is a rapidly evolving field of recent research. Special focus of the workshop was on the transfer of pre-therapeutic data to the interventional or surgical situation and the intrainterventional support. In addition, we did focus on the clinical benefit of actual developments by discussing clinical applicability, accuracy and uncertainty, relevance, workflow, and system integration. The presenters where strongly motivated to prepare for discussions about clinical applicability of their current work.

We received a respectable number of 33 submissions and like to thank all authors for their work. After a rigorous double-blinded review process, the 12 highest-rated papers most appropriate to the workshop theme were selected for oral presentation.

We would like to thank the MICCAI Society for providing the opportunity to hold this workshop, the MICCAI 2008 organizers for help with organizing the workshop, Nassir Navab for agreeing to give the keynote lecture, and the reviewers for helping us with the paper selection. Last but not least we thank all attendants of the workshop for their contributions and the lively discussion.

Papers

INTRAOPERATIVE REGISTRATION AND GUIDANCE

RESPIRATORY MOTION COMPENSATION AND DEFORMABLE ORGAN MODELLING