Medical Augmented Reality Summer School (MARSS) 2021: Selected Contributions

Dear Colleagues,

Medical Augmented Reality is a constantly growing research field, pushing the boundaries of medical data and imaging visualization, increasing the quality and safety of surgical procedures, and is able to provide surgical guidance and additional information to medical professionals in the most intuitive way. Augmented Reality (AR) education systems train the surgeons of tomorrow to acquire the critical skills, support the surgical staff in clinical routine, and AR rehabilitation concepts help patients to recover faster after interventions.

To teach a new generation of clinicians, scientists, engineers, and industry professionals, we initiated the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School (MARSS) program which has already been successfully conducted as an on-site event in 2019, and as a fully virtual event in 2021. The program consists of keynotes, lectures, and workshops, as well as a competition, in which novel ideas and concepts are fostered and developed into working prototypes and solutions in international and interdisciplinary teams.

This MDPI Journal of Imaging Special Issue showcases selected research projects initiated and conducted within the competition of the MARSS2021 program, as well as complementary scientific articles about Medical Augmented Reality research from selected main speakers of MARSS2021.

Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl
Prof. Dr. Mazda Farshad
Dr. Hooman Esfandiari
Matthias Seibold
Guest Editors

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