39th International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology (CARS 2025)

1985-2025

Can you imagine doing something for 40 years and it still being exciting? This is the reality for CARS, with its focus on impactful themes in computer-assisted medicine. By adapting to an ever-changing world, CARS has maintained its relevance. Over the past 40 years, many presidents of the CARS Congresses, the CARS Congress Organising Committee, and a distinguished community of scientists, engineers, and physicians have shaped this philosophy. They have contributed to CARS playing a leading role in medical and imaging informatics applied to radiology and surgery.

Historical Background

The initial planning for applying computers to medicine began over 40 years ago in 1983 at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). Members of the Computer Graphics Research Group (later renamed Computer Graphics and Computer Assisted Medicine) at TUB had to convince government officials in West Berlin that a medical-technical conference could attract attendees from all over the world. The focus was on seven key themes:

• Digital Image Generation
• Application Programming
• Computer Vision
• Computer Graphics
• Modelling
• Man-Computer Interaction
• Picture Archiving and Communications Systems

Evolution of CARS

Beginning in 1985 with the first congress on Computer Assisted Radiology, which included computer-aided diagnosis and computer-assisted surgery as part of Application Programming, these seven themes and their modern variations continue to excite the medical R&D community in the 2020s as much as ever before.