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03.04.2014

headline-marker „Inroads to Minimally Invasive CI Surgery” – Präsentation von Dr. Brett Bell

On Wednesday 2nd April 13:00, Dr. Brett Bell from the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Image-Guided Microsurgery, University of Bern will give a presentation entitled “Inroads to Minimally Invasive CI Surgery” in the ICCAS seminar room.

Dr. Brett Bell received a BS in mechanical engineering from Utah State University in 2003. He then began a direct PhD program Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University where he investigated biopolymers and cell biomechanics. Since 2010, Dr. Bell has been head of the Robotic Surgery group, first at the Institute of Surgical Technology and Biomechanics (ISTB) and then at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering, Bern.

Currently, Dr. Bell is investigating various aspects of a clinical implementation of a surgical robot system for minimally invasive cochlear implantation including safety, surgical workflow, and non-invasive registration.

24.03.2014

headline-marker Erfolgreiche Promotionsverteidigung von Sandra Schumann

On 19 March 2014, Sandra Schumann successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Evolution of distance measures for surgical processes”, which was developed at ICCAS. The event took place at the Leipzig University Hospital. Here the freshly qualified Dr. rer. med. Schumann worked closely together with the Department of Pediatric Surgery. For her doctoral accomplishments the graduated business computer scientist and physicist received magna cum laude.

Schumann came to ICCAS in 2005, when here was still conducted basic research on workflow theory in its application to surgical processes. In her doctoral thesis she dealt with distance measures, which are a prerequisite for improving workflows in the operating room by digital systems. Since September 2014 Sandra Schumann has been working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne.

ICCAS congratulates to the doctorate and wishes the long-serving colleague continued success.

19.03.2014

headline-marker Kolloquium zum „Lernen“

In the next colloquium on 26 March 2014, Sara Hiller (M. Sc. Psychology) from the Bielefeld University will lecture on “Learning, knowledge acquisition and study design”. The speaker is working in the field of educational psychology. She will pass on her knowledge about information processing in learning processes. The lecture will take place at 2pm in the seminar room.

headline-marker Wissenschaftlicher Austausch auf der SPIE Medical Imaging – Conference

From 15 to 20 February this year, Jens Meier and Mario Cypko took part in the SPIE Medical Imaging – Conference, which was host in San Diego, California (USA). The focus of the sessions and lectures, which were attended by the two young scientists, was in the areas of electronic management of patient data, patient information systems and clinical assistance systems in view of an increasingly evidence-based and personalized medicine.

In the lecture “A concept of a generalized electronic patient record for personalized medicine” Jens Meier presented the results and new approaches to the research of support systems for individualized diagnosis and therapy, which have been developed in cooperation with scientists from the Informatics and Image Processing Lab (IPILab) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. These include the provision and use of central database and complete electronic patient records, but also workflow assistance systems for the clinical practice and decision support systems to improve the treatment planning of head and neck tumors. The IT system “oncoflow”, which has been successfully used for a year at the Leipzig University Hospital, was also a topic of this presentation and received great attention.

The conference confirmed the future potential of the ICCAS-concept. The trend towards model- and evidence-based medicine was clearly noticeable. Contacts could be strengthened and expanded, such as with research institutes at RWTH Aachen and TU München.

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17.03.2014

headline-marker Viel Kommunikation, Inspiration und ein Posterpreis für Mario Cypko in den USA

In early March 2014, Mario Cypko’s research trip to the USA ended sucessfully. Major stations of the journey were the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, the NextMed / MMVR21 Conference and the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.

The young scientist from the DPM group scored again with a poster contribution and won the poster prize of the NextMed / MMVR Conference 2014 for his poster entitled „3D++ visualization of MEBN graphs and screen representations of patient models (PIXIE II)”. Furthermore, Cypko’s presentation on „User interfaces for patient-specific treatment – decision models using MEBN“ was met with great interest among the scientific colleagues at the NextMed / MMVR. The modeling and visualization of patient data with the aim of a transparent and comprehensible therapy management is a very current topic.

Cypko’s research contributions prompted the Institute of Creative Technology at the USC to invite him spontaneously. Here he had the opportunity to present his project work at the Mixed Reality Lab and in return to learn about the local research projects. The Lab focuses on the development of low cost user interfaces for general use.
The trip concluded with a visit of the Institute Image Processing and Informatics Laboratory at the USC. The focus of this meeting was on the use of Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks for modeling of treatment decisions.

Both institutions welcomed a future collaboration with the ICCAS. Further talks will follow.

headline-marker Usability Experte zu Gast im ICCAS – Kolloquium

A further colloquium will take place in the seminar room on Wednesday 05 March 2014 at 2 pm, this time with the usability expert Lucas Koch. The referee is working in the Department of Computer Science and Communication Systems at the Hochschule Merseburg – University of Applied Sciences. He will present the latest knowledge about utilizable and user friendly interface development towards international standardization.

headline-marker Prof. Melzer gibt Auftakt zum Kolloquium 2014

The prelude to this year’s ICCAS-Colloquium will give the renowned scientist Professor Andreas Melzer, director of the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT) of the University of Dundee (Scotland).

The presentation entitled “Clinical Decision Support by Medical Imaging – personalised image guided therapy by modeling and simulation: FUSIMO” will take place in the ICCAS seminar room, at 3pm on Monday, 03 March 2014.

headline-marker Sehr positive Bewertung der Lehrveranstaltung „Einführung in die Computerassistierte Chirurgie”

The lecture series “Introduction to Computer Assisted Surgery”, arranged in January 2014, received a very positive evaluation by the participating medical students. This speaks for the high teaching quality of the lecturers, but also for the increasing interest in this subject, because computer-based assistance systems find more and more their way into the routine surgical practice.

In technical modules, the medical students learned basic knowledge about image processing, navigation, robotics and simulation, but also about risk- and workflowmanagement. In medical modules, physicians introduced the application of surgical assistance systems for particular disciplines. The participants could also test innovative technologies in a practical session in the ICCAS demo-OR.

headline-marker ICCAS-Jahresbericht 2013

The latest annual report presents the research of the ICCAS that have been made by our scientists in 2013. It shows the structure of the ICCAS and contains information about the manifold activities and achievements within the scientific community of computer-assisted surgery.

The annual report can be viewed under the following link: Annual Report 2013

headline-marker Von der Wissenschaft in die Wirtschaft

After five years of research at ICCAS Christian Meißner moves into the industrial sector to the KUKA Laboratories GmbH Augsburg. There, the engineer will be concerned with the control programming of medical robots. Meißner studied Electrical Engineering in the Diploma and Master Degree program at the HTWK Leipzig before he came to ICCAS in 2008. Since 2011, he has been pursuing his doctorate on “Sensor based automatic recognition of surgical workflows.”

For ICCAS the KUKA Laboratories are not an unknown quantity. In 2008 there was a cooperation with the robot manufacturer. Surely more points of contact for joint research projects will arise now.