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25.09.2014

headline-marker Workshop-Beiträge auf der MICCAI 2014

M2CAI25 September 2014

M2CAI – the „Workshop on Modeling and Monitoring of Computer Assisted Interventions“ is part of the extensive framework program of the „International Conference on Medical Image and Computer Assisted Intervention“ (MICCAI), at which the ICCAS has been guest for years. At this year’s event, which took place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston (USA), Bernhard Glaser (MAI) and Stefan Franke (MAI) presented their research work. The workshop offered a wide variety of contributions on analysis, modeling and application of surgical workflows.

Bernhard Glaser presented results of his investigation on “Eye-Tracking Analysis of Scrub Nurse Viewing”. The subjects of the analysis were visual axes of people who have to handle surgical instruments to identify primary sources of information and interaction patterns. Stefan Franke gave a lecture on “Online Generation of Multi-Perspective Surgical Situation Descriptions”. The project deals with the representation of various views of the ongoing operational process. Several mathematical models of the surgical process are therefore combined. By means of the constantly evaluated and adapted data the surgeon receives a more comprehensive view of the current patient status in each operating phase and can react faster and more selective.

18.09.2014

headline-marker Dr. Kerstin Denecke leitete Workshop auf VPH Conference 2014

17 September 2014

Every two years, the Virtual Physiological Human-Community comes together at its conference. Then, methods and technologies are picked out as a central theme, which enable a common view of the human body by using virtual models of mechanical, physiological and biochemical processes.

This year, Dr. Kerstin Denecke (DPM) and Jan Gaebel (DPM) contributed to the knowledge exchange through the organization of an own workshop. The workshop entitled „Models for surgical decision support” started with a presentation of the Digital Patient Model – as it is currently in progress at the ICCAS. About 20 participants encouraged the productive exchange of experiences, which informed about the current state of the art in digital patient modeling for surgical decision support. Challenges and requirements were discussed together relating to the acquisition and integration of appropriate information and the medical knowledge for such models. The scientists established contacts and gathered important information to define new targets for their further project work.

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16.09.2014

headline-marker ICCAS mit Beiträgen auf der 13. CURAC Jahrestagung

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This year, the German Society for Computer and Roboter-Assisted Surgery hold its annual meeting in the premises of the Klinikum rechts der Isar – Technische Universität München. There, users and scientists of the areas surgery, information technology and engineering from German institutes exchanged their current research results and discussed new targets. Prof. Thomas Neumuth, Jens Meier, Bernhard Glaser and Max Rockstroh took part at the varied program which aimed “Synergy through interdisciplinary”.

CURAC-board member Prof. Neumuth chaired the session “Patient Models and Workflow”. In this, Jens Meier spoke about the theme “Aggregation of patient specific information to support the oncologic throat-, nose-, ear surgery. Bernhard Glaser presented his “Conception of a communication architecture for an OR-instrument table-simulation system” in the session “Simulation, Training and Education”.

12.09.2014

headline-marker Forschungsaustausch auf der GMDS-Jahrestagung in Göttingen

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11 September 2014

This September, the 59th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Medical Computer Science, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) e.V. brought together again numerous pioneers of the digitalization in the healthcare sector. Declared from the BMBF as an Event of the Year of Science 2014 the annual meeting was entirely dedicated to the motto “Big Data and research infrastructure – perspectives for medicine.”

Five scientists from the ICCAS took part, among them GMDS-committee member Prof. Thomas Neumuth. Presentations were given by Dr. Kerstin Denecke (DPM) on digital patient model for decision support in model based medicine and Yihan Deng(DPM) on the topic “Summarization of EHR using information extraction, sentiment analysis and word clouds“.

09.09.2014

headline-marker Präsentationen auf der MIE 2014

09 September 2014

The ICCAS participated at the 25th European Medical Informatics Conference (MIE 2014) with two conference contributions from the research field Digital Patient- and Process Model. Dr. Kerstin Denecke and Yihan Deng traveled to Instanbul to present their concepts for analysis and modeling of patient data.

Dr. Denecke’s lecture dealt with the analysis of the linguistic features of medical weblogs, particularly against the background including such information in a digital patient model. Deng spoke about the visualization of unstructured patient data for the evaluation of diagnoses and courses of treatment.

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headline-marker Karl-Heinz-Höhne-Preis und Dissertation – Frank Heckel gleich zweimal erfolgreich

09 September 2014

As in 2012, a researcher of the ICCAS could receive the award for the 2nd place of the Karl-Heinz-Höhne-Preis (MedVis-Award). Frank Heckel got the honor, which is awarded every two years from the Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM) Group, for his scientific work on interactive post-correction of automatically generated segmentation results in oncology. The computer scientist from the Fraunhofer-Institut für Bildgestützte Medizin (MEVIS) has been working as guest researcher at the ICCAS for over one year. Here, he analyzes image qualities for the collaborative project OR.NET and supports the cooperation between the ICCAS and the Fraunhofer MEVIS within the scope of the OR.NET-initiatives.

Four days after the award ceremony, Frank Heckel could celebrate another professional success. He defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Sketch-Based Interactive Segmentation and Segmentation Editing for Oncological Therapy Monitoring“ at the Jacobs University Bremen. In this work, he dealt with methods for more accurate and reproducible volumetric measurements of tumors in computer tomography data. The procedures were developed to support radiologists evaluating the effective of chemotherapy. Heckel’s success at the MedVis-Award is based on findings of the dissertation.

The ICCAS congratulates to the outstanding achievements and looks forward to another year, from now on with Dr. Frank Heckel in the research team.

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01.09.2014

headline-marker Sandra von Sachsen mit Vortrag auf ICBES in Prag

01 September 2014

Sandra von Sachsen was speaker at the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Systems (ICBES) in Prague. At the specialist conference, researchers met who deal with theories and applications of biomedical sciences and biomedical engineering.

Von Sachsen’s lecture on computer-assisted defect classification for the treatment of cervical spinal stenosis presented important research results of the HWS-group – a coding scheme for the description of identified defect characteristics of degenerative modified cervical spinal stenosis and a method for the fully automated detection of stenosis of the spinal canal in the MRT image. The audience asked questions concerning the applicability of the method in the diagnosis of vertebral body fractures. According to Sandra von Sachsen, this is quite possible. A crucial prerequisite is the providing of a greater amount of image data for the image-based classification of the relevant vertebral fractures.

09.08.2014

headline-marker ICCAS-Workshop zum Teilprojekt 6 – Demonstratoren im OR.NET

09 August 2014

OR.NET is a collaborative project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and stands for “Secure and dynamic networking in the operation room”. From the very start, the ICCAS has been partner in nearly all sub-projects of this lighthouse project. Since the beginning of this year, the ICCAS has been working on the coordination of the construction of all demonstrators and on the establishment of the integration demonstrator at the Leipzig location.

About 20 partners including representatives of renowned medical technology companies, manufacturers of clinical information technology, provider of integrated operating rooms as well as scientists from research institutes are involved in the sub-project 6. The synchronization of the partners takes regularly place in workshops. At the end of July, such a workshop was organized by the subproject leaders Max Rockstroh (ICCAS) and Markus Birkle (UKL Heidelberg) at the ICCAS. The workshop included in-house presentations on workflow management and guest lectures about the current work on the central components of the Open Surgical Communication Platform (OSCP). Furthermore, updated versions of the storyboards for the demonstrators were presented. The demonstrators will be used to apply the overall project concepts and systems in a realistic environment.
The workshop on sub-project 6 left enough room for proposed solutions. Besides, participants took the opportunity to inspect the current demonstrator–OR.

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08.08.2014

headline-marker Dr. Kerstin Denecke bringt Leipzig – Auckland – Forschungsvorhaben ins Rollen

08 August 2014

Last year in autumn, employee of New Zealand’s National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI) visited the ICCAS to explore common research interests. They already showed interest in working together with the ICCAS at that time. Now the return visit followed by Dr. Kerstin Denecke, who traveled to Auckland with plenty information material about the ICCAS and the work of the research group Digital Patient- and Process Modell. Her points of reference were the NIHI – where studies for information technologies in the healthcare sector are conducted – and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland. Furthermore, an initial meeting with the Bioengineering Institute took place which also deals with patient modelling.

The conversations at the NIHI were successful. Both sides see benefits in a closer cooperation. While the Leipzig scientists are leading in methodical development, the Auckland researchers have much to offer in the field of patient studies. The reason for that is a good availability of patient data gathered over decades. Just as the ICCAS, the National Institute endeavors developments of standardized applications which use openEHR – a good reason to remain in contact.
Further research periods are planned. The Leipzig – Auckland – Research is taking shape.

23.07.2014

headline-marker Dabeisein während der Digital Operating Room Summerschool (DORS) des ICCAS

DORS 2014 When the ICCAS – Summerschool will open its doors for one week on 22nd September 2014, participants can expect a richly filled program which has the developments and challenges in the field of information technology for the digital operating room as subject matter.

In the premises of the new Augusteum and the Bibliotheca Albertina, experienced scientists from medicine, engineering and computer science will share their experiences in the fields of medical image processing, computer vision and IT-technologies. They will also provide advisory support to the participants. Furthermore, hospital operators speak about the possibilities of implementing new IT-infrastructures in their institutions. During a practical session participants will be introduced into the human physiology and anatomy. An operating room visit will show the current state of the art OR-technologies and workflows in practice. Latest developments can finally be tested on prototypes and simulators in the ICCAS Concept-OR.

Especially young researchers and Ph.D. students should feel concerned who want to face the new requirements on personalized medicine and who want to receive firsthand knowledge from experts. But all other interested persons who are looking for a direct exchange within the scientific community of computer-assisted surgery are very welcome.

The number of participants is limited. Registrations can be submitted until 31st August 2014.
The ICCAS is looking forward to informative days in Leipzig where also the mutual acquaintance should not be neglected.

Further information and the registration form can be found under: www.iccas.de/dors.

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