The MICCAI annual Conferences have become established as the premier international series with in-depth papers on medical image computing, computer-assisted intervention and medical robotics.

The focus of MICCAI Conferences is on methodology for applications, with a strong emphasis on validation within applications. One of the goals is to improve communication between disciplines, to make state-of-the-art methodology as accessible as possible to clinicians and bioscientists, and to help basic scientists understand the detailed requirements in different clinical and bioscience application areas. Understanding is seldom imparted by short presentations and abstracts. The full-length peer reviewed papers that characterise MICCAI are hard work for authors, reviewers and readers, but they are worth the effort. The Proceedings are important and completely up-to-date reference works covering the state-of-the-art in the field.

The conference gives equal weight to posters and oral presentations, which are assigned non-overlapping sessions to ensure that all attendees have the opportunity to interact personally with presenters. All poster authors give a short platform presentation of their work prior to their dedicated poster viewing session. These oral summaries or “poster teasers” have been pioneered through MICCAI and provide informative, stimulating, concise and usually highly entertaining sessions which have become a feature of the Conference series.

The Proceedings of the annual MICCAI conferences are published by Springer and are available to registered attendees of the conference at the time of the conference. Copies of these published proceedings can be purchased after the conference by those interested in the topics of MICCAI and papers are available on-line. MICCAI Proceedings papers are full-length papers that have been subjected to peer review that is more stringent than many journals. This is reflected in the high citation rate of MICCAI Proceedings papers.

The MICCAI Society sponsors and has overall responsibility for the MICCAI annual conferences. The Society Board selects conference venues, organizers, and topics. The conference chair serves as an ex officio member of the Board of Directors for four years, starting two years before their conference and ending one year after. This helps to provide continuity for planning and progressive improvement that is critical to the ongoing success of the conference series.