HISTORY

The MICCAI conference series was formed by the merger of CVRMed (Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine), MRCAS (Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery) and VBC (Visualization in Biomedical Computing). The first MICCAI conference was in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Society was established in 2004, the founding Board members being:

Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, France

Christian Barillot, IRISA, Rennes, France

Alan Colchester, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Takeyoshi Dohi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

James Duncan, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Karl Heinz Hoehne, University of Hamburg, Germany

Terry Peters, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

Stephen Pizer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Richard A. Robb, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Russell Taylor, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Jocelyne Troccaz, University of Grenoble, France

Max Viergever, University Medical Utrecht, Netherlands

A new MICCAI logo was created in 2005 for use in all official presentations and publications.

The MICCAI logo (2005)

PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

Note that Contents of previous Proceedings and in some cases abstracts or full text are available (see Past Proceedings and Papers).

CVRMed	MRCAS	VBC