CAOS 2017 Meeting Formats and Topics
Meeting Formats
• Pre-conference educational workshops
o Basics introduction to CAOS (Workflow, Imaging, Planning, Registration, Surgical Tools…)
o Advanced topics in Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Science and Surgery
• Free papers session (clinical, technical, interdisciplinary)
• Poster and Special poster exhibit
• Keynote lectures
• Round table discussions
• Hands-on workshops
• Industry exhibit
• Bonding: career workshops (students meet industry; free access for students on Thursday and Friday from 4 to 6pm, Young Investigator Chill out) to the industrial workshops and exhibitions
Meeting Objectives – CAOScience, Surgery and related fields
- State-of the-art systems in CAOS (ankle, knee, hip, spine, shoulder, elbow, hand, oncology,…(incl. deformity correction & replacement), planning, navigation, PSI, smart instruments & robotics, …)
- Critical review of clinical trends and results
- Quality control in and with CAOS (Surgical Monitoring)
- CAOS – a tool in Education & Training
- CAOS in basic medical research (calcification & osteophytes, tissue engineering, ligaments,…“surgical“ biomechanics, …invivo-studies/sensorintegrated implants,….hygiene, radiation, invasivity, …, case databasis, statistical modelling,…)
- New technical tools, components and developments (sensors & actuators, robotics,…)
- Open source software (image processing tools, registration, algorithms, statistical modelling…, biomechanics,…)
- Imaging for CAOS & new developments & trends: (Fluoro, CT, MRI, US, OCT, Elastography, upright/dynamic imaging,…)
- Additive manufacturing („3D-printing“) and rapid manufacturing in CAOS
- Computer modelling and Image Guided Application of Shockwaves (and HIFU) in Orthopaedics
- Model based Computer Integrated Orthopaedics
- Computer Assisted Personalized Musculo-Sceletal Biomechanics (Personalized Modelling, Simulation and Evaluation (incl. gait analysis)
- Model based prevention & conservative therapy, personalised therapy (strategies, surgical planning, smart surgical devices, navigation and robotics); personalized implants and instruments
- personalized model based rehabilitation
- Usability Engineering and Work flow integration; Surgical Monitoring
- OR.NET - Secure dynamic networks in OR and clinic (interoperability, modularity, flexibility….open medical devices & IT networking)
- Medical Apps for CAOS (e.g. activity trackers for prevention, peri-OP training and planning, navigation,…, rehabilitation)