Title: Medical Robotics, Navigation and Visualzation (MRNV 2004) StartDate: 03/11/2004 EndDate: 03/12/2004 Location: Remagen, Germany, Europe URL: http://www.rheinahrcampus.de/mrnv2004 Scope and Aim The application of computer-aided planning, navigation and robotics in surgery provides significant advantages due to today^Òs sophisticated techniques of patient-data visualization in combination with the flexibility and precision of novel robots. Robotic surgery is going to revolutionize surgical procedures. Augmented with 3D image-guidance technology these tools give finer control over sensitive movements in diseased areas and therefore, allow for more surgical procedures to be performed using minimally invasive techniques than ever before. MRNV 2004 is a scientific workshop on new robotic procedures in all medical application areas. The workshop will bring together scientific, medical and application experts from university, clinical and commercial sites. Topics and application areas Workshop topics and application areas include (but are not limited to): computer-aided planning, navigation technologies, movement tracking, patient fixation, medical micro robots, robotic instruments, robotic vision, accuracy analysis, intra-treatment visualization, control systems, haptic feed-back systems, safety issues, virtual-reality techniques, tele-manipulation, clinical case and evaluation studies. Deadline for a 500 words abstract: December 12, 2003 Publication format: Hard-covered proceeding book distributed by Word Scientific Publishers