MICCAI 2008 Workshop on

Computational and Visualization Challenges in the New Era of Virtual Colonoscopy

• September 6, 2008
• Kimmel Center, New York University
• New York City, USA

Scope

Recently, several large-scale multicenter clinical trials (ACRIN, IMPACT, etc) for virtual colonoscopy (VC; aka CT colonography) have successfully finished, demonstrating the sensitivity of VC in the detection of polyps on a par with that of optical colonoscopy. These trials validated the clinical use of VC for early detection of colon cancer in screening population, thus bringing VC to a new exciting era. Accordingly, computational and visualization requirements for VC examinations in clinical practice are becoming much more demanding, leading to the development of advanced techniques for fulfilling the new clinical needs. For example, an emerging clinical protocol such as laxative-free VC examinations requires an efficient electronic cleansing method for removing residual fecal materials for visualizing the entire colonic mucosa.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a comprehensive forum by bringing together world-class researchers and clinicians in the field of VC for reviewing the state-of-the-art VC techniques, emerging techniques, and the prospective technical challenges in the new era of VC. This workshop will also be a forum on the VC technologies, introduced by the new clinical challenges in VC, which have not been fully explored in the main MICCAI conference. Attendees who are unfamiliar with the status of the VC technologies will quickly learn the landscape of the current state-of-the-art techniques, and those who are familiar with VC will gain a perspective of the challenges and active research areas in the new era of VC.

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