IPCAI 2019

Intention to submit: October 26 November 1, 2018

Regular paper submission: November 2 November 6, 2018

Supplemental material deadline: November 9, 2018

Long abstract submission: January 11, 2019

Author notification: February 1, 2019, end of February, 2019

Conference: June 18-19, 2019

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June 24, 2019

We are happy to announce the following Award winners after a successful IPCAI 2019 conference:

• NDI Student Travel Award:
  • Changyan HE, Beihang University, China
  • Javad FOTOUHI, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Hongzhi ZHU, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Best Reviewer Award
  • First Place: Tom VERCAUTEREN, King's College London, UK
  • Runner Up: Aneeq ZIA, Intiutive Surgical, USA
  • Runner Up: Andru Putra TWINANDA, COSMONiO
• Best Paper Award
  • First Place: Active learning using deep Bayesian networks for surgical workflow analysis by Sebastian Bodenstedt, Dominik Rivoir, Alexander Jenke, Martin Wagner, Michael Breucha, Beat Müller-Stich, Soren Torge Mees, Jürgen Weitz and Stefanie Speidel
  • Runner Up: Towards an automatic preoperative pipeline for image-guided temporal bone surgery by Johannes Fauser, Igor Stenin, Markus Bauer, Wei-Hung Hsu, Julia Kristin, Thomas Klenzner, Jörg Schipper and Anirban Mukhopadhyay
• Best Bench-to-Bedside Award
  • First Place: A "Pick-Up" stereoscopic camera with visual-motor aligned control for the da Vinci surgical system: A preliminary study by Apeksha Avinash, Alaa Eldin Abd elaal Prateek Mathur and Septimiu E. Salcudean
  • Runner up: Face detection in the operating room: comparison of state-of-the-art methods and a self-supervised approach by Thibaut Issenhuth, Vinkle Srivastav, Afshin Gangi and Nicolas Padoy
• ImFusion AI Translational Medicine Award:
  • Automatic biplane left ventricular ejection fraction estimation with mobile point-of-care ultrasound using multi-task learning and adversarial training by Mohammad H. Jafari, Hany Girgis, Nathan Van Woudenberg, Zhibin Liao, Robert Rohling, Ken Gin and Purang Abolmaesumi
• Audience Choice Award:
  • First Place: Weakly-supervised convolutional LSTM approach for tool tracking in laparoscopic videos by Chinedu Nwoye, Didier Mutter, Jacques Marescaux and Nicolas Padoy
  • Runner up: Dynamic, patient-specific mitral valve modelling for planning transcatheter repairs by Olivia Ginty, John Moore, Mehdi Eskandari, Patrick Carnahan, Andras Lasso, Matthew Jolley, Mark Monaghan and Terry Peters

These awards are generously supported by the following sponsors.

June 12, 2019

In preparation for IPCAI 2019 conference, please consult CARS 2019 website for on-site information such as conference map and registration instructions. In particular,

• IPCAI will be hosted at Room le Nef
• The Final CARS Program (including IPCAI) is available for download here.

June 12, 2019

For the first time, IPCAI introduces the forum of Long Abstracts for the CAI community to showcase scientific breakthroughs and novel ideas. The PDFs of accepted Long Abstracts (in no particular order) can be found below:

• 3D ultrasound image guidance system for focal liver tumor therapies
• Combining visual cues and interactions for 3D-2D registration in liver laparoscopy
• EchoBot: An open-source robotic ultrasound system
• EM navigation of a Raman spectroscopy needle for prostate cancer confirmation: Preliminary ex-vivo study in 3D Slicer
• Evaluation of head segmentation quality for treatment planning of tumor treating fields in brain tumors
• Localizing dexterous surgical tools in X-ray for image-based navigation
• Miniature C-arm simulator using wireless accelerometer based tracking
• Novel instrument design for electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
• OP 4.1: A user-centered platform for the operation room of the future
• Phsychophysiological data and computer vision to assess cognitive load and team dynamics in cardiac surgery
• Unity and VTK for VR medical image analysis - an initial clinical evaluation

We thank the CAI community for your tremendous interests and support.

May 2, 2019

For all Presenting Authors:

Please prepare your poster in the following format:

A0 (841 x 1189 mm) in Portait

May 1, 2019

Dear IPCAI Authors,

We are pleased to announce the NDI/IPCAI Young Investigator Travel Awards. The purpose of the award is to help young investigators (including PhD and MSc students and junior researchers) with accepted papers at IPCAI conference to attend IPCAI/CARS 2019. These awards are generously sponsored by NDI.

Each award will help partially cover expenses towards air travel in economy class, local hotel stay (3 stars or equivalent category), and IPCAI registration. A committee of senior members of the IPCAI community will review requests and make a decision.

Deadline for application: May 10 2019.
Result will be announced by: May 25, 2019.

Please send your resume (maximum 3 pages), the accepted paper title and its final PDF copy, a cover letter, and the travel budget to Dr. Kensaku Mori.

Selection criteria include geographical location, financial need, scientific excellence and innovation (determined primarily by the reviews you have received for your IPCAI paper), in this order of importance.

We look forward to seeing you in Rennes, France.

April 16, 2019

IPCAI 2019 program is now finalized. Please visit the following page for further detail.

March 01, 2019

Decision for regular paper submissions announced. Decision emails were sent to corresponding authors via the Microsoft CMT system.

As IPCAI 2019 is co-hosted with The 33rd International Conference of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), we ask all participants to register through the CARS registration website. Please mind the following:

• Regardless of your academic status (student), a presenting author must register as a presenting author at the CARS registration website,
• The deadline for a presenting author is currently set to be March 04, 2019. We are working with CARS organization to extend this deadline.
• All other types of participants: Please register by April 25, 2019 to receive a discount on registration fees.
• Under Additional Questions, please select IPCAI as the preferential part of CARS congress,
• You may request an invitation letter for Visa Application during the registration process.

We thank the CAI community for your tremendous interests and support.

February 18, 2019

Links to Venue and Touristic Information have been updated.

Rennes will be hosting several matches of the FIFA Women's World Cup (June 7-July 7) during IPCAI/CARS 2019. We therefore highly recommend that you to book accommodations early.

February 10, 2019

For the first time, IPCAI introduces the forum of Long Abstracts for the CAI community to showcase scientific breakthroughs and novel ideas. IPCAI 2019 received 25 submissions and, after a careful deliberation, accepted 11 Long Abstracts (in no particular order):

• 3D Ultrasound Image Guidance System for Focal Liver Tumor Therapies
• Combining visual cues and interactions for 3D-2D registration in liver laparoscopy
• EchoBot: An open-source robotic ultrasound system
• EM navigation of a Raman spectroscopy needle for prostate cancer confirmation: Preliminary ex-vivo study in 3D Slicer
• Evaluation of head segmentation quality for treatment planning of tumor treating fields in brain tumors
• Localizing dexterous surgical tools in X-ray for image-based navigation
• Miniature C-arm Simulator Using Wireless Accelerometer Based Tracking
• Novel Instrument Design for Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy
• OP 4.1: A user-centered platform for the operation room of the future
• Phsychophysiological Data and Computer Vision to Assess Cognitive Load and Team Dynamics in Cardiac Surgery
• Unity and VTK for VR Medical Image Analysis - an Initial Clinical Evaluation

We thank the CAI community for your tremendous interests and support.

January 10, 2019

The deadline for IPCAI Long Abstracts is approaching:

• The direct link to IPCAI Long Abstracts CMT submission site is HERE,
• Please mind the formatting instruction. In particular, no short abstract is needed for the 4-pages Long Abstract,
• Each Long Abstract can be accompanied by a (1) supplemental video. The supplemental video must be uploaded to the submission website in a separate .zip file.

December 20, 2018

FAQ for Long Abstracts updated.

November 27, 2018

Call For Paper (CFP) for Long Abstract announced. Details HERE. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) HERE.

October 29, 2018

Deadline for Regular paper submission has been extended to November 6, 2018.

October 26, 2018

Deadline for Intention to submit has been extended to November 1, 2018. For the purpose of Intention to submit, please make sure the following are entered into the CMT submission system:

• Complete list of authors,
• Complete list of domains of conflict, and
• Complete abstract.

The abstract can be modified, if needed, at the time of the full paper submission.

October 15, 2018:

List of Area Chairs (ACs) can be found HERE.

September 22, 2018:

First Call for Papers (CFP) announced. Details HERE. PDF version can be found HERE.

September 24, 2018:

Submission instruction for long abstract announced. Details HERE.

Download the Final Program HERE.

June 18, 2019

• 08:30 - Opening for IPCAI 2019
• 08:40 - Short Podium Presentation
• 10:00 - Coffee Break
• 10:30 - Short Podium Presentation
• 12:00 - Lunch and Poster Session
• 13:30 - Short Podium Presentation
• 15:00 - IPCAI Award I
• 15:30 - Coffee Break and Poster Session
• 17:30 - CARS Opening Ceremony

June 19, 2019

• 08:00 - Selected Long Podium Presentation 1
• 10:00 - Coffee Break
• 10:30 - Selected Long Podium Presentation 2
• 12:30 - Lunch and Poster Session
• 13:30 - Long Abstract Presentation
• 14:30 - Plenary Discussion
• 15:00 - IPCAI Award II and Closing
• 15:30 - Coffee Break and Poster Session

Please click HERE to submit your paper.

Instruction for REGULAR paper submission

• Paper should be formatted for submission to the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS). Detailed instructions with regard to paper format: Title page, Abstract structure, References, etc. can be found on the IJCARS site under “Instructions for Authors” tab.
• LaTex: a style file is available from Springer’s website. If you use this style file use the first option in the template as your document class, “one column (standard format)”.
• Word: unfortunately, we do not have a word template. Your text will need to fit inside a 7.25″x4.5″ (18.415 cm x 11.43 cm) region. Text font should be set to Times new roman 10 pt. Captions and reference font should be set to Times New Roman 9 pt. We encourage the use of the LaTex template for IPCAI 2019.
• The file format for submissions is Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) with a maximum of 20MB in size. Other formats will not be accepted.
• All papers should be submitted in IJCARS single column format.
• The maximum number of pages for your submitted paper is 13 in single column format including abstract and references.
• The review process is single blind: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.
• Submissions should describe original work that has not been submitted to or accepted for another conference, nor is intended to be published in a journal before the IPCAI conference in June 2019.
• Intentions to submit: October 26, 2018.
• Paper submission: November 2, 2018.
• Supplemental material deadline: November 9, 2018.

Instruction for LONG ABSTRACT submission

• The maximum number of pages for your long abstracts is 4 pages (including references) in the Springer LNCS style format. The LaTex a style file is available from Springer’s website.
• The review process is single blind: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.
• The file format for submissions is Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) with a maximum of 20MB in size. Other formats will not be accepted.
• The focus of these Long Abstracts should be on:
  • Exciting new breakthroughs relevant to IPCAI or,
  • Novel ideas with preliminary but limited experimental validation.
• Submission deadline: January 11th, 2019.

All papers accepted at IPCAI are intended to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS) after all revisions recommended during the review process have been addressed.

For this reason, papers submitted to IPCAI follow a two-step review process, described below.

Step (1): IPCAI review process: The submissions are reviewed by two committees to ensure high quality papers suitable for presentation at IPCAI and publication in IJCARS:

Area Chairs (ACs)

who assign reviewers (primary role) and make decision recommendations for a subset of submitted papers (secondary role).

Reviewers

who provide an evaluation for a set of papers. Each paper is assigned to three reviewers. ACs act both as a Primary and as a Secondary AC for different subsets of papers:

Primary ACS

assign three reviewers to each paper. They know the identity of the authors and the reviewers and ensure that there are no conflicts of interest. Reviewer assignment ensures that at least one reviewer is senior in the topic and the reviewers represent a good spread of institutions and geographical locations. Primary ACs ensure three detailed, solid external reviews for each paper and encourage reviewers to update scores after the rebuttal phase. They then provide a summary of the reviews as well as a recommendation.

Secondary ACs

are responsible for making a second independent recommendation for acceptance/rejection of manuscripts. They do not know the identity of the reviewers and make a recommendation for papers that do not belong to the set of manuscripts in their Primary AC set. At the program board meeting, each paper discussed will have two independent recommendations: one from a Primary AC and one from a Secondary AC.

Note: These two AC roles are designed to reduce any possible bias arising from knowledge of the identity of the reviewers in the single-blind process.

The timeline of the review process is as follows:

Assignment of ACs

Each submission is assigned to one Primary AC and one Secondary AC. The assignment is based on the matching between the expertise of the AC and the contents of the paper.

Assignment of Reviewers by Primary ACs

The Primary AC member assigns three reviewers to evaluate each paper. Conflicts of interest are herewith taken into account; no reviewer from the same organization as the authors is allowed and the ACs try to take geographical spread into account; at least one senior reviewer is assigned. Primary AC members will make their best effort to assign the appropriate reviewers to each paper.

Review by Reviewers

Reviewers work on their reviews and once submitted they are checked by the Primary AC to ensure sufficient constructive content.

Recommendations by ACs

For each paper for which there is consensus among the reviewers, the Primary and one Secondary AC make a recommendation about acceptance or rejection of the paper and may also recommend the paper for awards.

Early Acceptance/Rejection

Decision are made to reject/accept papers for which there is consensus among the reviewers and ACs. Decisions and reviews are sent to the authors. For accepted papers, the authors can begin revising their papers according to the comments of the reviewers for the second step of the process.

Rebuttal Period

For papers who have not been subject to an early decision, the authors receive the reviews and are invited to submit a rebuttal.

Update of Reviews by Reviewers

The Primary AC urges the reviewers to consider the authors’ rebuttal and to update their reviews and scores accordingly. The purpose of this step is not necessarily to reach consensus among the reviewers but to eliminate any misunderstanding.

Recommendations by ACs

For each paper, the Primary and Secondary ACs provide their recommendation about acceptance or rejection of the paper by taking into account the initial reviews, the rebuttal and the updated reviews.

Final Decisions

The Program Chairs compile all recommendations for the Program Board Meeting. The Program Board then finalizes acceptance/rejection decisions and selects papers with award nominations. The award winners are decided later by the IPCAI Award Committee.

Notification of Acceptance

The authors are notified about the final decision and are provided the reviews and comments from the ACs that offer additional information on how the decision was made. The authors begin revising their papers according to the reviews for the second step of the process.

Step (2): IJCARS review process

Submission to IJCARS

Authors of accepted papers submit their updated manuscript to IJCARS for publication in the IPCAI special issue. For each paper, the Program Chairs, which serve as Guest Editors of the special issue, transmit the IPCAI recommendation and the reviewers’ information to IJCARS. IJCARS sends the updated manuscripts for a final round of review, using the same reviewers as during the IPCAI review process. The reviewers include the Primary and Secondary ACs. These reviewers check that the papers have been revised according to the recommendations formulated during the IPCAI review process and confirm their recommendations accordingly.

Notification by IJCARS

The authors are notified about the final outcome and asked to submit the final revised manuscripts for publication in the special issue. Papers that would not be immediately accepted, because they did not comply with the recommendations, will be presented at IPCAI and kept within the IJCARS review process for later publication in a regular issue of the journal.

The goal of the conference format is to encourage constructive discussion of the presented papers and active engagements between authors and attendees.

Conference Format

The conference program consists of three phases:

• Short podium presentations (Day 1):
  All authors will practicipate in providing a short, 5-minutes, oral presentations. Papers are grouped by their topics into sessions. After each session, attendee vote for two papers they would like to be presented and discussed at length on Day 2. No questioning period is allocated for the short podium presentation.


• Poster presentations (Day 1):
  All authors will practicipate in poster presentations. Designated time and location are provided to allow the attendeeds and authors to engate in in-depth discussions.


• Long podium presentations (Day 2):
  Attendees-chosen papers will be presented in a long, 15-minutes, podium. Questioning periods is provided.

INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS

Authors will need to prepare two oral presentation and a poster before coming to the conference:

• ALL AUTHORS:
  • A 5-minutes oral presentation:
    A short, but complete, presentation about your paper. The audience will vote for a long presentation based on it.
  • Poster presentation:
    Schedules are provided for authors to present their posters; this is designed for attendees and authors to engage in detailed discussion of the presented work.
    
    The poster format is: size A0 (841 x 1189 mm) in portrait.


• Selected by Attendees:
  • A 15-minutes podium presentation (plus questioning periods):
    Presenters are kindly asked to minimize the overlap between the short and long presentations.

Best Presentation Awards will be selected by the audience for the long presentations.

IPCAI 2019 will be hosted in conjunction with the 33th Internation Conference on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS):

Question: Will the Long Abstracts be published, and if so, how?

Accepted Long Abstracts will be published on-line ONLY on the day of conference (June 18, 2019) and thereafter.

Authors of original work may elect to submit accepted Long Abstracts to IJCARS for consideration as short-communication articles. An additional review process will be required and process through IJCARS directly.

Question: Can I submit a Long Abstract based on my own prior works, including published or submitted journal manuscripts?

Yes. IPCAI encourages submission of exciting new breakthrough and will accept Long Abstracts based on published works or works currently in submission to other journals. In the IPCAI Long Abstract submission process, you will be asked to provide details of these prior arts, such as the name of journals. This is to give authors the opportunity to present their work and to obtain feedback from IPCAI community.

Question: How are accepted Long Abstracts presented?

Accepted Long Abstracts will be presented as 5-minutes oral presentations (no questioning period) and as poster presentations. Format of the poster will be announced at a later date.

Question: Can Long Abstracts be voted for long oral presentations?

The answer to this question will be based on the number, as well as the quality, of submissions. Decision will be made at a later date.

Question: How are Long Abstracts being reviewed?

Long Abstracts are peer-reviewed by IPCAI Area Chairs with input from the Program Board. For the list of organization committees, refer to HERE.

Question: Are the Long Abstracts eligible for Awards?

No.

Question: How do I prepare the Long Abstract manuscript?

Please use the LNCS LaTeX template available at Springer’s website, and submit the manuscript in PDF format only.

We are unable to supply with a Microsoft Word or any other template. If you are having trouble installing a LaTeX typesetting system on your computer, your may consider using on-line LaTeX editor such as OverLeaf.

Question: What is the format of the manuscript?

Please use the LNCS LaTeX template available at Springer’s website. Please do not modify the LaTeX template: any alteration to LNCS template format will result in automatic rejection.

The manuscript should be 2-4 pages (4 pages maximum) with structures outlined in the Call-For-Paper for Long Abstract.

Question: Can I upload supplemental materials for the Long Abstract?

Yes. You are allowed to upload 1 video (compressed in .zip format) as the supplemental material for the Long Abstract. No other supplemental materials are allowed.

Please keep in mind that the reviewers are not obligated to use the supplemental materials during the review process.

For any other questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.

Here you will find links to previous IPCAI conferences:

IPCAI 2018, Berlin, Germany

IPCAI 2017, Barcelona, Spain

IPCAI 2016, Heidelberg, Germany

IPCAI 2015, Barcelona, Spain

IPCAI 2014, Fukuoka, Japan

IPCAI 2013, Heidelberg, Germany

IPCAI 2012, Pisa, Italy

IPCAI 2011, Berlin, Germany

IPCAI 2010, Geneva, Switzerland