Introduction

“VR/AR for Biomedical Image Analysis and Clinical Neurosciences” is a tutorial for the 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

In this tutorial, we introduce and showcase recent, highly interesting applications of virtual-reality (VR) and augmented-reality (AR) for biomedical image analysis and clinical neurosciences. In recent years, there has been a vast interest in VR/AR and biomedical image analysis. We hope to bring together VR/AR and biomedical and clinical applications to meet the growing interest across communities.

Our exciting program will cover the following topics of interest with VR/AR:

  • Life Sciences Image Analysis 🐁 🔬
  • Cerebrovascular Image Analysis 🩻 🧠
  • Clinical Neurosciences and Practices 🏥 🧠
  • Clinical Anatomy Teaching 🏥 🩻

We look forward to seeing you on Oct 2nd 2023 2pm-6pm @ Paris Convention Center Room W08!

Live Hands-on Sessions 🥽

We will feature live hands-on sessions for the participants!

We will demonstrate the VR/AR projects from the invited speakers in action! More than an hour of the program will be dedicated to the participants trying out the devices live! Participants are also encouraged to bring their own data and their own scenarios for VR/AR and we can explore together.


Keynote Speakers


Lead Organizers

Organizing Committee

Abbreviations: ZHAW = Zurich University of Applied Sciences; UZH = University of Zurich; TUM = Technical University of Munich; LMU = Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Helmholtz = Helmholtz Zentrum Munich


We thank syGlass for generously providing us extra commercial licenses and VR devices for the hands-on session!

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Make sure to visit their website for the cool VR software as seen in some of our demos :)


Venue

Our ICCV tutorial will take place at the Paris Convention Center:

Pavilion 7, Hall 7.3 – Level 3 of the building, Room W08
1 Place de la Porte de Versailles
75 015 Paris, France

Entrance gate: Porte A2 next to the metro station

Metro stop : Paris Porte de Versailles - Metro Line 12


The following resources are used and discussed in our tutorial and in the demos:

Hardware

Software

If you know any open-source VR/AR development projects or code, please let us know and we are happy to list them here as well :)

Publications and Projects

  • TopCoW MICCAI Challenge on Circle of Willis Vessel Segmentation TopCoW2023
  • Kaltenecker, Doris, et al. “Virtual reality empowered deep learning analysis of brain activity.” bioRxiv (2023): 2023-05.
  • Cabrilo, Ivan & Bijlenga, Philippe & Schaller, Karl. (2022). “Augmented Reality as an Aid in Neurosurgery”. Link
  • Colombo, Elisa, et al. (2023). “Mixed Reality for Cranial Neurosurgical Planning: a Single Center Applicability Study with the First 107 Subsequent Holograms”. Operative Neurosurgery. Link