At the 17th “International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound” (ISTU) Prof. Andreas Melzer and group leader Dr. Doudou Xu present the research of the Meta-ZIK-project SONO-RAY at a booth and by the poster contributions „Optimization of tumor therapy by combination of focused ultrasound and radiation guided by MRI and PET-MRI” and „Combination therapy for cancer by PET-MR and MR image guided focused ultrasound and radiation therapy”.

The Symposium will take place from May 31 until June 2, 2017 in Nanjing, China.

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Über 80 Gäste folgten am 18. Mai der Einladung, hinter die Kulissen des ICCAS zu schauen. Die Wissenschaftler stellten den Besuchern Ergebnisse, Methoden und Visionen anhand ausgewählter Exponate vor. Es waren alle fünf Forschungsbereiche des ICCAS vertreten. Wie eine neuartige Analysestation Ärtzte bei der Therapieentscheidungsfindung unterstützen kann, veranschaulichte die Arbeitsgruppe “Digitales Patientenmodell”. Die Arbeitsgruppe “Life Support Systems” ermöglichte mit Hilfe eines speziellen Medizingerätes einen Blick in die Lunge und erklärte die Vorteile der Elektrischen Impedanz-Tomografie (EIT) als Gegenstand ihrer Forschung an einem mobilen System zur Überwachung der Lungenfunktion. Der Demo-Operationssaal und dessen intelligente Funktionen wurden von der Gruppe “Modell-basierte Automation und Integration” vorgeführt. Des Weiteren präsentierte die Forschungsgruppe “SONO-RAY” ein Ultraschallgerät, mit dem Krebszellen bekämpft werden können und die Gruppe “Multimodale Intraoperative Bildgebung” ein Verfahren, bei dem mittels Infrarotthermografie geeignete Hauttransplantate gefunden werden können. Ein beeindruckendes Exponat kam aus dem Bereich Medizinische Robotik. Hier wurde demonstriert, wie Roboter die Berechnung und Steuerung einer Punktion an der Wirbelsäule übernehmen.

Das ICCAS dankt allen Gästen für deren Interesse sowie die spannenden Fragen und Gespräche!

Das MDR-Fernsehen berichtete am 11.05.2017 in der Sendung “Hauptsache Gesund” über das Projekt SONO-RAY. Projektleiter Prof. Andreas Melzer spricht in diesem Beitrag über den völlig neuen Ansatz, Ultraschall und Bestrahlung kombiniert bei der Therapie von Tumoren einzusetzen.

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ICCAS invites you to participate in its next Colloquium. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Holger Grüll from the Department of Radiology at the University Hospital Cologne will give a lecture on “Thermal Combination Therapies Using MR-HIFU”.

Date: Monday, 15.05.2017
Time: 4.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Venue: Leipzig University Hospital, Liebigstraße 20, Conference Room 0015/0016 (Glaskasten)

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Together with computer scientists of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg and physicians of the University Hospital and the Hospital Magdeburg DPM-group leader PD Dr.-Ing. Steffen Oeltze-Jafra received the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine (2nd place) last Sunday. The prize is awarded at the Annual Conference of the European Association for Compuer Graphics (Eurographics) every two years. The successful contribution in which Oeltze-Jafra was significantly involved is dedicated to the interactive sketching and annotating of vascular structures to support the medical training, therapy planning and patient education.

Dirk Bartz was professor for computer assisted surgery and headed the Visual Computing research group at ICCAS from 2007 until 2010. He passed away at the age of 42 years. In honor of him the “Eurographics Medical Prize“ was renamed to « Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine » in 2010.

On the occasion of Girls’ Day schoolgirls from the 8th to the 10th grade of high schools in Saxony and Saxony Anhalt were introduced to serveral application areas of Medical Informatics within the University Medicine on 27th April 2017. At the last stop on this very informative tour, ICCAS scientists came up with research to touch. The pupils could control a robot arm, pipette on cells and make the skin temperature visible by using an infrared camera. Particularly impressive was the diversity of applications of computer science when looking in the digital research operating room.

Pressemitteilung:

Für den Katastrophenfall: Neues EU-Notfallkrankenhaus unter Leipziger Beteiligung konzipiert

The automatic and dynamic networking of computer-assisted medical devices in the operating room and the interaction of these devices with medically-approved software on the basis of an open communication standard is a particular challenge for information and communication technologies in the field of medical application. Based on the results of the BMBF-funded project OR.NET (2012-2016) the last year founded OR.NET e.V. and its partners present their further work on concepts for the secure, dynamic and open integration of medical device components in the operating room and clinic.

Venue:
Messe Berlin
Messedamm 22, D-14055 Berlin
Halle 2.2 / A-104

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In the scope of the conference ‘Informatics for Health’ the research group Digital Patient- and Process Model will give a tutorial on ‘Model-based therapeutic decision support — from a probabilistic and a physiological perspective’.
The tutorial focuses on fundamental problems arising during therapeutic decision making in complex diseases. Two different approaches to building a predictive disease- and patient-specific therapeutic decision model will be presented.

Date: Sunday, 23 April, 2017
Time: 09.30 am – 01.00 pm
Venue: Manchester Central, Manchester (UK)
Room: Hilton Doubletree, Scone

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At the DGBMT/Fraunhofer/SMIT Symposium „Krankenhaus der Zukunft“ organized by PD Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wittenberg and Prof. Andreas Melzer, ICCAS will contribute with the topics “Experiences from the Digital Operating Room Summer School”, “Computer-Assisted Intervention, Vision or Reality?” and “Workflow Analysis in the OR”. The symposium takes place in the scope of the Congress of the German Society for Endoscopy and Imaging Techniques – DGE-BV e.V.

Session: Endo-Innovation CTAC / DGBMT | Arzt meets Ingenieur I
Thursday, 06.04.2017 | Berlin, Estrel Hotel, Room V
05.00pm – 05.12pm | Lecture: Prof. Andreas Melzer “Experiences from the Digital Operating Room Summer School (DORS)”

Session: DGBMT I
Friday, 07.04.2017 | Berlin, Estrel Hotel, Room V
09.50am – 10.00am | Lecture: Juliane Neumann “Workflow Analysis in the OR”

Session: Endo-Innovation CTAC / DGBMT | Arzt meets Ingenieur II
Saturday, 08.04.2017 | Berlin, Estrel Hotel, Room III
11.00 am – 11.15 am | Lecture: Prof. Andreas Melzer “Computer Assisted Intervention, Vision or Reality?”

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