CAOS-International

The Best Paper Awards will be given for the best podium presentations at the annual CAOS-International meeting. The decision will be made by a board of referees and the awards will be presented at the end of the meeting.

2000
Best Paper Award (sponsored by Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada)
COMPUTER-ASSISTED PLACEMENT OF A DOUBLE-BUNDLE ACL THROUGH 3D FITTING OF A STATISTICALLY-GENERATED TEMPLATE INTO INDIVIDUAL KNEE GEOMETRY
A. B. Wymenga, M. Sati, J. W. H. Luites, Y. Bourquin, L. Blankevoort, R. vd Venne, J. G. M. Kooloos H.-U. Stäubli
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and SMK-Research, St. Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
M.E. Müller Institute for Biomechanics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Orthopaedic Research Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Bern, Switzerland

2001
Best Clinical Paper Award (sponsored by Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada)
CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS OF ACETABULAR COMPONENT ORIENTATION USING SURGICAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES
A. M. DiGioia, J. E. Moody, R. S. LaBarca, C. Nikou, B. Jaramaz
Center for Medical Robotics & Computer Assisted Surgery, UPMC Shadyside & Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Best Basic Science Paper Award (sponsored by Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada)ULTRASOUND BASED REGISTRATION OF THE PELVIC BONE SURFACE FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION
A. V. Amin, T. Kanade, A. M. DiGioia, B. Jaramaz, C. Nikou, R. S. LaBarca
Center for Medical Robotics & Computer Assisted Surgery, UPMC Shadyside & Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

2002
Best Paper Award (sponsored by Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada)
DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION BETWEEN A STATISTICAL BONE DENSITY ATLAS AND X-RAY IMAGESJ. Yao, R. Taylor
Johns Hopkins University, USA

2003
Best Clinical Paper Award
A PORSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED VERSUS CONVENTIONAL KNEE REPLACEMENT
S. K. Chauhan, R. G. Scott, J. Lloyd, J. M. Sikorski, W. Briedahl, R. A.Beaver
Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia

Best Scientific Paper Award
VIDEO TRACKING FOR INTRA-OPERATIVE GUIDANCE A COMPLEMENTARY SOLUTION TO TRACKING DURING CAS INTERVENTIONS
J. de Siebenthal, F. Langlotz
MEM Research Center for Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2004
Best Paper Award
COMPARISON OF THR-CUP-ORIENTATION USING DIFFERENT NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
M. Honl, K. Schwieger, S. Dries, C. Gauck, F. Lampe, M.M. Morlock, E. Hille, M. Wimmer
Eilbeck General Hospital, Germany

2005
Best Clinical Paper Award (sponsored by Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany)
TISSUE-PRESERVING COMPUTER-ASSISTED TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY - FASTER RECOVERY AND LOWER COMPLICATION RATE WITHOUT COMPROMISING ACCURACY OF CUP ORIENTATION
S. B. Murphy, M. Tannast
Center for Computer Assisted and Reconstructive Surgery, Boston, MA, USA

Best Technical Paper Award (sponsored by NCCR CO-ME)
FEASIBILITY OF ULTRASOUND-INITIALIZED BONE MORPHING - EARLY EXPERIENCES AND EVALUATION OF A COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
H. Talib, K. Rajamani, J. Kowal, M. Styner, M. A. Gonzales Ballester
MEM Research Center for Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2006
Best Clinical Paper Award (sponsored by Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany)
NAVIGATED TOATL KNEE REPLACEMENT - A COMPREHENSIVE CLINICAL STATE OF THE ART STUDY
I. Ilsar, L. Joskowicz, L. Kandel, Y. Matan, M. Liebergall
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Best Technical Paper Award (sponsored by Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada)
ACCURATE AND ROBUST RECOVERY OF DISTAL LOCKING HOLES IN COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING OF FEMORAL FRACTURESG. Zheng, X. Zhang, D. Haschtmann, P. Gedet, F. Lanlgotz, L.-P. Nolte
MEM Research Center for Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2007
Best Clinical Paper Award (sponsored by Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany)
COMPUTER NAVIGATION IN TKR: A COMPARISON OF CT BASED, CT FREE AND CONVENTIONAL SURGERY USING ALIGNMENT, CLINICAL OUTCOME, AND RSA
T. van Strien, En MJ van der Linden, E. R. Valstar, R. GHH Nelissen
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Best Technical Paper Award (sponsored by DePuy Orthopädie GmbH)
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TORQUE STABILITY OF REFERENCE MARKER SYSTEMS IN COMPUTER AIDED ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
M. Citak, T. Board, D. Kendorff, Y. Sun, C. Kretttek, T. Hüfner
Medical University Hannover, Germany

2008
Best Clinical Paper Award (sponsored by B. Braun Aesculap)
COMPUTER ASSISTED TUMOR SURGERY (CATS): NEW APPLICATIONS
KC Wong, SM Kumta, GE Amtonio, WK Ng, KS Lee, LF Tse

Best Technical Paper Award (sponsored by Ziehm Imaging)
ASSESMENT OF ANATOMICAL CRITERIA ACROSS POPULATIONS USING STATISTICAL SHAPE MODELS AND LEVEL SETS
N. Kozic, M. Reyes, M. Tannast, L.-P. Nolte, M. A. Gonzàlez Ballester
MEM Research Center for Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland