Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2019

Event Overview

The focus of the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School Zurich was to teach the new generation of scientists the basics, challenges and recent advances of Augmented Reality as well as to strengthen the connection between medicine, science and industry.

Location: Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland Dates: August 5–16, 2019

In the first week, leading scientists of the field presented keynotes and insights from a medical and technical point of view. A condensed version of the TU Munich and JHU Baltimore lecture “Medical Augmented Reality” provided profound theoretical knowledge of the topic.

In the second week, participants realized their own Medical AR solutions using cutting-edge technologies in interdisciplinary teams. During this year’s event, 20 individual Medical AR solutions were developed during the hackathon by a total of 66 participants from all over the world. We would like to thank all participants and speakers, as well as all the people who made this event so exceptional. Furthermore, we would like to thank Balgrist University Hospital for providing the platform and environment for MARSS ‘19.

This event was endorsed by the MICCAI society and covered by the MICCAI Code of Conduct.

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“Really great material coverage”
“Broad range of topics, great speakers!”
“Excited and active audience and interaction with speakers”
“Good integration between technical, industrial and medical perspectives”
“Detailed and relevant to the field. Speakers were all incredibly knowledgeable as well”
“It was great to work in a team and come up with something in a short amount of time!”

Agenda MARSS ‘19

First Week (August 5–10)

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
08:30–09:30	Keynote: Prof. Mazda Farshad Medical AR - Clinical Perspective	Keynote: Prof. Greg Osgood, MD	Keynote: Dr. Sandro-Michael Heining	Keynote: Dr. José-Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Stryker)	Lecture: CAMC (Computer Aided Medical Procedures)	Keynote: Dr. Simon Weidert
09:30–10:30	Keynote: Prof. Nassir Navab Medical Augmented Reality - Overview	Keynote: PD Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl	Keynote: Dr. Alex Ilic (Magic Leap Switzerland)	Keynote: Dr. Wolfgang Wein (ImFusion)	Keynote: Dr. Till Bay (Incremed)	Keynote: Prof. Marc Pollefeys (Microsoft HoloLens)
11:00–12:30	Lecture: Transformations and Camera Models	Keynote: PD Dr. Federico Tombari	Lecture: Visual System and Perception	Lecture: Rendering	Lecture: Surgical Sonification	Hackathon: Project Preparation
13:30–14:30	Keynote: Dr. Ulrich Eck	Keynote: Prof. Mirko Meboldt	Keynote: Prof. Mathias Unberath	Workshop: ImFusion Suite	Workshop: 3D Modelling	Hackathon: Kickoff Preparation
15:00–16:30	Lecture: State of the Art in Medical AR	Lecture: AR/VR HMDs and Synchronization	Lecture: User Interaction	Keynote: Navid Navab	Hackathon: Team Administration	Hackathon: Kickoff Presentations
16:40–18:00	Exercise: Unity 101	Exercise: Intro to HoloLens	Exercise: Intro to Magic Leap	Exercise: Rendering	OR Visit
19:00–22:00				Conference Dinner		Street Parade Zurich

Second Week (August 12–16)

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
08:30–12:30	Hackathon	Hackathon	Hackathon	Hackathon	Demo Day Sessions 1 & 2
13:30–18:00	Hackathon	Hackathon	Hackathon	Hackathon	Demo Day Sessions 3 & 4
15:00–16:30			Keynote: Prof. Roy Eagleson (during Hackathon week)
16:00–17:00					Audience Award
16:30–18:00			Hackathon
17:00–18:00					Closing Ceremony

Participants from Around the World

Participants from all over the world joined MARSS 2019, representing a truly international gathering of Medical AR researchers and practitioners.

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab

Head of the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, Department of Computer Science, TU Munich

Prof. Dr. med. Mazda Farshad, MPH

Medical Director at Balgrist Hospital, Professor for Orthopedics at Universität Zürich

Prof. Dr. Greg Osgood, M.D.

Chief, Orthopaedic Trauma, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, JHU Baltimore

Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys

Director of Science at Microsoft HoloLens and Full Professor in the Institute for Visual Computing of the Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

Prof. Dr. Mirko Meboldt

Chair of Product Development & Engineering Design, ETH Zürich

Prof. Dr. Roy Eagleson

Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Associate Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute, Scientist and Principal Investigator at CSTAR, Canada

PD Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl

Head of CARD Research Laboratory, Balgrist Hospital, Zurich

PD Dr. Federico Tombari

Research Scientist and Manager at Google, Zurich, Adjunct Lecturer (PrivatDozent) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

A.R. Prof. Dr. Mathias Unberath

Assistant Research Professor, Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore