On January 19, ICCAS began the new year with the Status Seminar to review the past, very eventful twelve months.

The many visitors were welcomed by ICCAS’s Director, Professor Andreas Melzer, who gave a brief overview of the highlights of 2016. Vice Director Professor Thomas Neumuth then explained the positive development of the institute’s key figures, especially the new appointments and the third-party funding granted. Afterwards, the group leaders gave an account of both the goals achieved last year and this year’s milestones to the visitors: primarily members of the Board, the Advisory Board and the Clinical Advisory Board as well as representatives of the project backers. Finally, PD Dr. Andreas Reske gave a presentation on the recently launched project EMU, the aim of which is to develop a ventilation system with electrical impedance imaging. EMU is part of the new ICCAS research area Life Support Systems, as is the EU-wide project EUMFH European Union Medical Field Hospital, which kicked off on January 1 this year.

During the practical part of the event, findings from selected projects such as Thermography, the Digital Patient Model, BIOPASS and Surgical Robotics were presented. Following the seminar, a meeting was held by the Advisory Board, which submitted a report containing valuable recommendations for ICCAS’s future strategy.

We would like to thank all the guests and participants for this very informative day and look forward to continuing to work together in 2017.

To find out more about ICCAS’s activities in 2016, please see the current ICCAS ANNUAL REPORT

We are pleased to announce our first colloquium lecture in 2017. Prof. Rebecca Fahrig – Head of Innovation at Advanced Therapies at Siemens Healthineers – will speak about ‘Integrated multi-modality solutions for interventional and minimally invasive surgery procedures’.

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Prof. Rebecca Fahrig was appointed honorary professor at the Pattern Recognition Lab in December 2016. She is currently with Siemens Healthineers as Head of Innovation at Advanced Therapies.
Prior to that Rebecca Fahrig was full professor at the Department of Radiology at Stanford University. Prof. Fahrig received her PhD in medical biophysics at the University of Western Ontario and won numerous awards with her research focusing on imaging for guidance of minimally invasive procedures, multi-modality image guidance, and works on software and hardware that permit the use of a C-arm system for both fluoroscopy and CT imaging.

Abstract
Siemens Healthineers has created the business area ‘Advanced Therapies# in order to better support the customer needs with versatile solutions that offer the latest capabilities to deliver better, faster, and more effective care – during complex procedures just as in daily routine. It is our mission to offer best-in-class imaging based on single or integrated multi-modality solutions for superior treatment options in Cardiology, Interventional Radiology and minimal invasive Surgery.

Date: Wed., Jan. 25, 2017
Time: 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Venue: Leipzig University Hospital, Liebigstraße 20, Conference Room 0015/0016 (Glaskasten)

We look forward to welcoming all interested parties!

Another ultra-modern 3-Tesla-MRI was put into operation at the Department of Diagonstic and Interventional Radiology at Leipzig University Hospital. Thanks to a research cooperation with ICCAS, it includes an additional device for the non-invasive treatment of cancer with high-intensity focused ultrasound.

press article (German)

A peaceful and relaxing Christmas time and a great start into the new year to all of you. We are already looking forward to welcoming numerous guests to our status seminar on January 19, 2017.

On December 8, 2016, the Biomedical Engineering Symposium was held in Leipzig under the banner of ‘Using Medical Technology Safely in the Operating Room’. Attended by representatives of healthcare and industry, the symposium included not just fascinating talks on clinical practice and research but also a tour of ICCAS’s Operating Room of the Future.

At ICCAS, computer scientist Stefan Franke used a patient phantom to vividly demonstrate the advantages of the dynamically networked operating room. The demonstration OR devised and set up under the joint project OR.NET is partly used as a development and test environment. At the OR of the Future, the suitability of new concepts and technologies for clinical practice can be trialed in a highly realistic setting, while all the components and functions necessary for an operating room and networking can be simulated.

In the afternoon, the symposium continued with a talk entitled ‘The Joint Project OR.NET – Safe, Dynamic Networking in Operating Room and Clinic’ by Max Rockstroh (another computer scientist from ICCAS), who explained some of ICCAS’s latest research findings.

On December 2, visitors flocked to ICCAS on ‘Dies academicus’, the 607th anniversary of the foundation of Leipzig University. Guided tours of the operating room of the future were organized. Alongside staff and students from the university, many prospective students seized this opportunity to learn about the technology of this fully networked demo OR and how it works.

Visitors were also invited to try their hand at surgery on a phantom. In addition, computer scientist Max Rockstroh from ICCAS give a talk in the main lecture hall at the study center at Liebigstrasse 27 entitled ‘The Operating Room as Part of the Team – or How We’re Teaching the OR to Think’. We would like to thank all our visitors for taking the time to come and see us!

MEDICA, the world’s biggest trade show for the medical industry, was held in Düsseldorf from November 14 to 17. The main topic this year was the digitalization of the healthcare sector and the networking of all those involved in the treatment process. ICCAS showcased its activities to visitors at its own display on the joint booth ‘Research for the Future’. Researchers from ICCAS explained aspects of the smart OR of the Future, a mobile version of the networked demonstrator OR set up at ICCAS in Leipzig. Visitors were able to explore the advantages for themselves by conducting endoscopy on a phantom. We would like to thank the University of Magdeburg for its excellent preparation and organization of the joint booth ‘Research for the Future’!

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Date: 14. – 17.11.2016
Venue: Messegelände Düsseldorf | Halle 3, Stand D 94
Exhibit

22.11.2016

Am diesjährigen Dies academicus, dem 607. Gründungstag der Universität Leipzig, können Interessenten mehr über die Technik und Arbeitsweisen des zukünftigen Operationssaals erfahren.

Das ICCAS lädt um 12.00 Uhr herzlich in den großen Hörsaal des Studienzentrums in der Liebigstraße 27 zum Vortrag „Der Operationssaal als Teil des Teams oder wie wir dem Saal das Denken beibringen“ ein.

Des Weiteren bietet das ICCAS Führungen durch den Operationssaal der Zukunft in der Semmelweistraße 14 (1.OG) an. Die erste beginnt 9.00 Uhr, eine weitere folgt 11:00 Uhr.
Hierfür wird um vorherige Anmeldung gebeten: info@iccas.de

Wir freuen uns auf viele Besucher!

Programmflyer Medizinische Fakultät

Nov. 21, 2016

Interested parties are cordially invited to visit ICCAS’s upcoming colloquium. Our guests and speakers are experts from the University Medical Center Utrecht (NL).

Prof. Chrit Moonen from the Image Science Institute, Devision Imaging will speak about ‘New technologies for non-invasive tumor treatment’. Prof. Chris Terhaard from the Department of Radiotherapy addresses the topic ‘The role of MRI in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer’.

The colloquium will take place on Thursday, November 24, 2016, 4.00 – 5.30 pm in the Leipzig University Hospital, Liebigstraße 20, conference room 0015/0016.

More about the speakers and their lectures

We are looking forward to your participation!

Nov. 11, 2016

At the world’s leading trade fair for the medical industry MEDICA 2016, ICCAS will present the ‚Intelligent operating room of the future“. Together with other scientific exhibitors from Saxony Anhalt, Thuringa and Saxony the exhibit will be shown at the stand ‘Research for the Future.‘

Date: Nov. 14 – 17, 2016
Venue: Messegelände Düsseldorf | Halle 3, Stand D 94
Exhibit

At the Suppliers Forum of the parallel occuring trade fair COMPAMED, Prof. Andreas Melzer will give the lecture: „EPflex MR-kompatible Instrumente: Führungsdrähte, Steinfang-, Thrombolysekörbchen und steuerbare Katheter“.
Date: Wed., Nov. 16, 2016
Venue: Messe Düsseldorf | | COMPAMED SUPPLIERS FORUM by DeviceMed | Halle 8b, Stand 8bG40

Program of Forum