The second workshop 'Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions' (M2CAI) aims at establishing a forum for discussing advanced methods for acquisition, analysis, modeling, and monitoring of surgical / interventional processes. These methods often aim at defining explicit representation, formal understanding, and statistical modeling and analysis of the interventions. This new research field promises the design of a new generation of context-aware, dedicated, and adaptive Computer Assisted Intervention (CAI) systems and solutions.

The workshop will present results of recent research projects on the acquisition, analysis, modeling, and monitoring of computer assisted interventions, which has been identified by experts as a crucial need for the development of the Operating Room of the Future. A list of relevant topics can be found below. Many of these topics have already been addressed at MICCAI in the last years.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Context-aware operating rooms
• Modeling/Representation of surgical procedures
• Modeling for surgical simulation, training, and assessment
• Modeling for surgical workflow evaluation and optimization
• Recognition of surgical steps / actions / events
• Semantic analysis of surgical interventions    
• Surgical sensor networks
• Surgical skill assessment
• Surgical workflow mining
• Surgical process based ergonomics and man/machine interface
• Surgical process model based assessment of systems and interventions

The M2CAI workshop will be held on September 22, 2011 at the Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square, Toronto, Canada from 1,30pm.

For questions related to this event, please send an e-mail to Florent Lalys (florent.lalys at irisa.fr).

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* First workshop on 'Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions (M2CAI)' held in London at MICCAI’09