IPCAI is a premiere international forum for technical innovations, system development and clinical studies in computer assisted interventions. IPCAI will include papers presenting novel technical concepts, clinical needs and applications as well as hardware, software and systems and their validation.

• Paper submission deadline: November 7, 2016 (extended deadline)
• Early decisions: December 19, 2016
• Rebuttal deadline: January 9, 2017
• Author notification: January 21, 2017
• Submission to IJCARS: January 27, 2017
• Early-bird registration: May 5, 2017
• Conference: June 20-21, 2017

The conference’s program is now available here.

Confirmed keynote by;

Makoto HASHIZUME, MD, PhD, FACS
Chairman and Professor, Department of Advanced Medical Initiatives, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and Director of Center for Advanced Medical Innovation, Kyushu University, Japan.

Submissions of original work are encouraged within the broad areas of interest of Computer-Assisted Interventions (CAI) and specifically in the areas of:

• Surgical data science
• Interventional imaging
• Systems and software
• Evaluation and validation
• Tracking and navigation
• Interventional robotics
• Surgical planning and simulation
• Advanced intra-operative visualization and user interfaces
• Augmented Reality for medical applications
• Surgical skill analysis and workflow

Accepted papers are eligible, after appropriate revisions, for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS). IJCARS is indexed in PubMed and its ISI 2015 impact factor is 1.827.

The call for papers can be downloaded here.