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DBSMC 2012
MICCAI 2012 Workshop on Deep Brain Stimulation Methodological Challenges
1 Oct 2012 Nice (France)

Scope

MICCAI 2012 workshop on DBS methodological challenges aims at establishing a forum for discussing advanced methods for preoperative planning, intra-operative placement, and post-operative programming of surgical Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).

During the past decade, this neurosurgical technique has grown in importance for the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. However, planning and performing such interventions still remain difficult, either for defining accurately the location of the anatomical structure to stimulate, determining an optimal position for the electrode, dealing with brain shift, or determining the optimum stimulator settings.

This workshop aims at gathering researchers and clinicians in various fields such as medical image computing, computer graphics, computational modeling, computer-aided surgical planning, and interventional imaging to discuss the recent advances and the challenges to address to improve DBS interventions. It is expected to be a forum of discussion and exchanges between young and experimented scientists and clinicians.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

• DBS pre-operative planning
• Assistance to decision making
• Modeling/Representation of surgical procedures
• 3D modeling of brain vessels
• Modeling for surgical workflow evaluation and optimization
• Biomechanical simulation of brain shift
• Image guided DBS surgery
• Biomechanical simulation of electrode deformations
• Brain atlases
• Segmentation and modeling of anatomical structures of the brain
  
• Automatic definition of nuclei
• Modeling of the effect of electrical stimulation
• Intra-operative images for DBS
• Post-operative analysis of DBS
• Validation and evaluation of computer-assisted DBS

Submission Guidelines

We invite electronic submissions of 8-page to 10-page papers for oral or poster presentation, formatted following the same submission guidelines as the main conference MICCAI (LNCS style, anonymity for double-blind review). 

Submissions must be sent on-line via the submission link of this website.