Nov. 02, 2016

As part of the appointment of the Faculty Council on Oct. 25, Sandra von Sachsen was awarded the PhD thesis prize of the Medical Faculty Leipzig. The prize is given annually by the Dean for excellent achievements in the fields of Medicine and Dentistry.

Von Sachsen completed her doctorate on ‘Employment of numerical simulations for the comparison of stent grafts in vascular medicine. Use potential, requirement specification and man-machine interface’. The focus of her doctoral work is a simulation-based selection of vascular prostheses for the endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. For the identification of the method’s use potential a user study throughout Germany with 16 clinics was performed for the first time.

Congratulations!

Oct. 27, 2016

On October 25, Jordanian professors from the fields of medicine and biotechnology, medical informatics and engineering visited ICCAS. They are currently visiting guests within the scope of an Erasmus+ project at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK). The presentations of the intelligent operating room and the digital patient model were pursued with great interest and many questions were asked. The participants also showed interest in the delegation of guest researchers and in advancing projects with industrial partners.

The purpose of the program is to promote research and innovation at Jordanian universities. The participants learn ways of university-industry cooperation, public funds and functioning technology transfer.

26.10.2016

Auf dem diesjährigen Mitteldeutschen HNO-Kongress in Halle erhielt Dr. med. Matthäus Stöhr (HNO-Klinik, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig) den zweiten Posterpreis für den Beitrag „TNM-Klassifikation des Larynxkarzinoms: Modellierung und Validierung des Bayes’schen Netzwerks.“ Inhalt des darin vorgestellten Projektes ist die Erarbeitung eines Digitalen Patientenmodells zur Unterstützung der Therapieentscheidung bei Patienten mit Kopf-Hals-Tumoren. Stöhr arbeitet dabei Hand in Hand mit ICCAS-Informatiker Mario Cypko zusammen. Klinischer Leiter ist Prof. Andreas Dietz. Als Besonderheit wurde die zukunftsweisende Integration der immer komplexer werdenden Therapieentscheidungen durch individualisierte Therapiekonzepte gesehen.

Poster

Oct. 26, 2016

Computer scientist Mario Cypko organized this year’s Young Investigator Networking (YINS) session of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery. The international non-profit-association pursues the goal of advancing new technologies and research activities in the area of computer-assisted surgery. The characteristic of the YINS session is its presentation format which addresses young researchers. Here, they can present themselves their profile and scientific ideas to senior researchers and industry representatives in a relaxed atmosphere. This simplifies establishing contacts within this research sector.

More

Oct. 25, 2016

Since August 2016, ICCAS is an official member of the ‘Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’ (IHE) Initiative. The initiative is intended to improve interoparablity in the health care sector. It is organized in domains. ICCAS is mainly active in the ‘Surgery’ domain. In each domain IHE-profiles are assigned to specific problems. The profiles define which people and activities may be necessary for the problem-solving and which existing standards are used. ICCAS computer scientist Erik Schreiber has been recently appointed to the Technical Committee of the ‘Surgery’ domain. The Committee primarily examines new profile proposals. Erik Schreiber also works on profiles.

Oct. 25, 2016
Since more than one year, ICCAS maintains a partnership with the engineering department of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico. The goal is the development of highly specific analysis algorithms for image processing.
A first joint project deals with the automatic detection of residuals of brain tumor in intraoperative ultrasound image data. For this purpose a new segmentation algorithm was developed at the Universidad de Guanajuato which is now being evaluated in collaboration with a doctoral student from Mexico at ICCAS.

Oct. 14, 2016

At this year’s M2CAI-Workshop ICCAS presents its work on the integrated operating room with the two contributions: ‘Towards the intelligent OR – Implementation of distributed, context-aware automation in an integrated surgical working environment’ and ‘BPMNSIX – A BPMN 2.0 Surgical Intervention Extension’.

The M2CAI-Workshop is a satellite event of the ‘International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions’ (MICCAI). Here, clinicians, researchers and medical companies discuss issues and solutions on the acquisition, analysis, modeling, and monitoring of computer assisted interventions.

Event: MICCAI 2016 | M2CAI
Venue: Athens (Greece) | Delta Theater, Intercontinental Athenaeum
Date: Friday, Oct. 21, 2016
Time: 9:30 am – 12.30 pm

Program

Oct. 07, 2016

On October 1, 2016, the joint project SONO-RAY organized by the two ZIK Centers of Innovation Competence OncoRay in Dresden and ICCAS in Leipzig started. The project combines MR-guided focused ultrasound and radiation therapy to improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment. Funding totaling €6.2 million is being provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Prof. A. Melzer is the leader of the project.

Press release

Oct. 07, 2016

During the celebrations of the Day of German Unity, many visitors were attracted by the common stand of the University Medicine Dresden and Leipzig. ICCAS presented itself with a mobile version of the ‘Intelligent Operating Room’. Guests could simulate ENT surgery on a phantom head in interaction with the innovative assistant systems. Many interesting conversations were held with interested citizens and representatives from the Government of the Free State of Saxony. State Premier Stanislaw Tillich and State Minister for Arts and Sciences Dr. Eva-Maria Stange were among the guests in the festival tent.

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Oct. 4, 2016

This year, the 28th Conference of the international Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT 2016) takes place from Oct. 05-08 in Delft (the Netherlands). There will be ICCAS-lectures in the special session ‘Intelligent Operating Room’ on Friday (Oct. 7, 2016) from 10:30 bis 12:00 am.
A mobile version of ICCAS’s „Intelligent Operating Room“ can be experienced at the exhibition.

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