Welcome Message from Conference Chairs to the BMT 2020 Online Conference

Unfortunately, due to the extraordinary situation, the BMT cannot take place in Leipzig and our planned celebrations during the event will have to be cancelled. However, we are very pleased that the BMT can be carried out at all. Moreover, we could win the Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn as conference-opening speaker. In addition, Saxony’s Minister of Science Sebastian Gemkow will pay tribute to our fifteen years of operation in a special video message.

Since 2005, ICCAS has been working in close cooperation with the Leipzig University Hospital and other relevant scientific institutions on smart operating room technologies. ICCAS' strength lies in the interaction of computer scientists and engineers with physicians. Our research addresses amongst others the optimization of surgical workflows, personalized medicine, intraoperative multimodal imaging techniques, image-guided focused ultrasound, MR-guided interventions and artificial intelligence and 5G-technologies for medical applications. Over the past 15 years, ICCAS has attracted some 45.8 million euros in external funding and generated over 600 publications. Our institute is an established and certified partner for medical engineering companies. Its research findings facilitate the work of clinical personnel, increase treatment safety and lead to more economical processes in everyday clinical practice. ICCAS supports the medical disciplines in meeting the current challenges of digitization and raises their profile at state, federal and international level. Research findings are transferred via clinical departments, teaching and research institutions in cooperation with numerous partners at national and international level.

A special concern of us is to incorporate the perspective of clinicians more strongly in the scientific work. That is why we have integrated leading clinicians in the BMT-program to cochair the sessions and present their exciting clinical work as invited speakers. We thank all partners and funding institutions involved in our work and are looking forward to welcome you at the first virtual BMT 2020 and hopefully at a later date at ICCAS in Leipzig.

The conference chairmen

Andreas Melzer   and     Thomas Neumuth

Director ICCAS                Vice Director ICCAS

The Call for Papers of AAL Congress remains as it is. The submitted papers will be considered in the program of BMT 2020. We are looking forward for your submissions. 

This year's Junges Forum will take place on 28.09.2020, the day before the BMT meeting (29.09.2020-01.20.2020) and is aimed at students, young professionals and PhDs.

The theme of this year's Jungen Forum BMT is "Operations of the future - sustainable, safe, economical".
This year, we have developed a digital program with different speakers and topics for you. In addition we offer discussion rounds and we can continue networking digitally despite Corona!

* The reduced fees are only valid with the indication of the member card number (for VDE Members) or upload of the member card copy (for other organisations) and for student the upload of the student card copy during the online registration form. In case of missing certification the non member fees will apply.

Services: The registration fees include the participation to the oral sessions, the poster session and the proceedings.

Cancellation:  In case of cancellation, provided that VDE-Conference Services has received written notice about it 30 days before the conference, the registration fee will be full refunded less a handlling fee of € 50.00. In case of cancellation after this date, no refund will be made. Proceedings will then be sent to the registrant after the conference.