IGSTK User Group Meeting, CARS 2009

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Introduction

We will have the IGSTK user Group meeting in conjunction with CARS 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
We will use this event as an opportunity to meet with European users. We are also planning on releasing IGSTK 4.2 together with the updated IGSTK book.
This event will be a great opportunity for developers and users to join together and share their experiences

This event is mainly dedicated to getting user feedback with some status update. Tutorial of IGSTK is given at the open source tutorial hosted by CARS.
We welcome users to present their work and experience with IGSTK at this event.

• This part is open for sign up. Each presenter will have 15 minutes for talk (you can decide how much time for Q&A).
  To sign up for presentation, please send an email to Patrick Cheng (cheng@isis.georgetown.edu) with your name, affiliation, and a short description of your project.

Your feedback back is very important to the continue development of the IGSTK projects. We look forward to seeing you in CARS.

NOTE: this event is not sponsored by CARS and there is no registration fee.

Meeting Schedule

Time & Location

6:00 PM ~ 9: PM, June 23, 2009
Estrel Hotel, Berlin, Germany
http://www.cars-int.org/

Preliminary Agenda

I. Developers' Update ( 6:00 PM ~ 6:30 PM, Moderator: Patrick Cheng)

1. Project overview, 5 min [Kevin Cleary]
2. Status update, 15 min (Andinet Enquobahrie, slides)

II. User Presentations ( 6:30 PM ~ 8:30 PM, Moderator: Kevin Cleary)

Name	Affiliation	Topic	Slides
Ewa Piekta Dominik Spinczyk	Silesian University of Technology, Biomedical Division Poland	Osiris integration	link
Wolfgang Freysinger Ozgur Guler	Medizinische Universität Innsbruck Austria	Video-endoscopic navigated ENT surgery Video grabber implementation	link link
Adrian Vazquez Oliver Burget	ICCAS, University of Leipzig Germany	Video grabber	link
Mike Daly Jeff Siewerdsen Sajendra Nithiananthan	Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto Canada Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University United States	Cone-Beam CT-Guided Head and Neck Surgery	link
Osman Ratib	University Hospital of Geneva Switzerland	Current state and future of OsiriX	link
Tormod Selbekk	SINTEF, Dep. of Medical Technology, Trondheim Norway	Ultrasound and navigation in neurosurgery (Abstract)	link

III. Industry Presentations/Demos ( 8:30 PM ~ 9:30 PM, Moderator: Andinet Enquobahrie)

Name	Company	Presentation/Demo
Dr. Stefan Kirsch R&D Manager Europe Germany	Northern Digital Inc. http://www.ndigital.com	link
Claudio Gatti, CEO Ahmad Kolahi	Claron Technology Inc. http://www.clarontech.com	link

IV. Social hour ( 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM )

1. TBA

CARS 2009

June 23 - 27, 2009
Estrel Hotel, Berlin, Germany
http://www.cars-int.org/

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