DPM group leader PD Dr. Steffen Oeltze-Jafra and a researcher team from the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg earned the second place at the Karl Heinz Höhne Award ceremony of the German Informatics Society (GI).
Since 2004, its Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine (VCBM) group has been awarding the prize for outstanding research work in cooperation with Brainlab, GI and CURAC. The successful contribution, in which Oeltze-Jafra played a major role, is dedicated to the interactive sketching and annotating of vascular structures to support the medical training, therapy planning and patient education. The award ceremony took place at the VCBM-Annual Meeting in Ulm. There, Juliane Müller also presented research results of the DPM-group regarding digital decision support for the treatment and aftercare of cancer.

On April 10, Prof. Thomas Neumuth introduced the topic “Robots in Medicine” to participants of the Senior’s Academy of the Leipzig University. The talk opened the lecture series of the Senior Citizens’ College in this summer semester. Prof. Neumuth explained how robots are already be used in medical care and outlined the state of the art and the developments to be expected in the future in this exciting field.

Prof. Thomas Neumuth presents research results on the development and applicability of digital patient records for Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) at today’s World Health Organization (WHO)- Regional Conference in Brussels. The presentation is related to the cooperative work in the EU-project Modular Field Hospital (EU-MFH), which aims at a significant improvement of medical care during missions of the European civil protection. The electronic patient documentation generated at ICCAS is intended to ease the workload on medical personnel from diagnosis to therapy and documentation in the newly designed modular emergency hospital.

At this year’s ConhIT congress, Prof. Thomas Neumuth chaired the session “Intelligent Technology in Hospitals – Convergence of Medical Technology and IT” followed by a discussion. The session provided a view toward the near and distant future of medical and surgical technology combined with medical IT. It dealt with solutions that already exist or will exist in the future and in which the further development of classical IT through artificial intelligence, robotics and ubiquitous computing and sensor technology is evident.

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At the 135th Congress of the German Society for Surgery in the CityCube Berlin, Prof. Andreas Melzer gave an invited lecture on the topic “Computer-Assisted Surgery” in the session “Innovations in Oncological Surgery”.

From April 20–21, he will attend the 42nd Congress of the Korean Society of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons (KSELS) in Jeju (Korea). In an invited keynote lecture he will talk about “Artificial and Machine Intelligence in the OR of the Future”. He also leads the session “Artifical Intelligence in Minimally Invasive Surgery”.

From March 21 until 23, ICCAS presented its “Intelligent Operating Room” at the XPOMET© Convention in the Leipzig Zoo Congress Hall. Barbara Klepsch – Saxony’s State Minister of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection – visited the booth during the event opening. Prof. Thomas Neumuth’s lecture on “Medical Device Interoperability in the OR of the Future” aroused great interest.

DPM group leader PD Dr.-Ing. Steffen Oeltze-Jafra was elected as new member of the executive committee of the “Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine” working group. The group deals with image analysis, visualization and interaction in the field of image-based diagnostics and therapy in biology and medicine. It cooperates with related organizations, especially with the CURAC.

working group link

“Amazing Medicine” promises the first XPOMET© Convention which will be held in Leipzig in the Congress Hall by the Zoo” from March 21. – 23. There, ICCAS will present the unique functioning of its “Intelligent Operating Room” in the exhibitor area “Future Hospital”. The exhibit shows, how computer models are used for the patients therapy. With the help of a virtual operating room and a patient phantom an endoscopic sinus surgery will be performed. Who wants to experience more about “Medical Device Interoperability in the OR of the Future” is very welcome to attend the lecture of Prof. Thomas Neumuth on the second day of the convention. The scientists at the ICCAS-booth are looking forward to many visitors, not only during the planned Use Case Sessions.

XPOMET-exhibition
21.–23.03.2018 | Kongresshalle am Zoo, Leipzig
ICCAS-booth: EXPO-area „Future Hospital“, booth-no. 112

Lecture “Medical Device Interoperability in the OR of the Future”
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Neumuth
22.03.2018 | 11:00 – 11:30 am
Schumann-Saal

Use Case Sessions “Medical Device Interoperability in the OR of the Future”
21.03.2018 | 03:00 pm
22.03.2018 | 01.00 pm
23.03.2018 | 12.30 pm
ICCAS-booth: EXPO-area „Future Hospital“, booth-no. 112

This year, Prof. Andreas Melzer and Prof. Thomas Neumuth contribute with lectures to the Congress of the German Society for Endoscopy and Imaging Techniques – DGE-BV e.V., taking place in Munich. Furthermore, Prof. Melzer chairs the session “DGBMT – Imaging and Image Analysis in Endocopy and Surgery.”.

Session: DGBMT | Augmented und Virtual Reality
Friday, 16.03.2018 | 12:15 – 12:30 pm
Speaker: Prof. Andreas Melzer
Topic: “MAGIC Lens AR and Tablet Based Planning of Surgical and Interventional Robotic Assisted Procedures”

Session: CTAC | Cognitive Surgery
Friday, 16.03.2018 | 04:18 – 04:30 pm
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Neumuth
Topic: “System Integration in OR: How to Proceed after OR.NET?”

At the beginning of March, researchers of the Interactive Media Lab Dresden visited the ICCAS and the ENT-tumorboard of Leipzig University Hospital to inform themselves about the current state of research on exploration and visualization of complex patient data. The guests from the Institute for Software and Multimedia Technology of the Technische Universität Dresden primarily deal with multimodal human-computer-interaction and develop innovative user interfaces – topics related to the work of the Digital Patient Model group. The scientists aim collaboration in the area of exploration of decision support models for the preparation and implementation of the tumor board.