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.

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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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March 1, 2017 saw the start of the industry collaboration project IMPACT. Funded by the BMBF German Ministry of Education and Research, it belongs to the new ICCAS research group Life Support Systems. The research group is headed by Dr. Andreas Reske from the Center for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Heinrich Braun Clinic in Zwickau.

Research is being conducted on a mobile 3D imaging system based on electrical impedance tomography (EIT). This non-invasive procedure is designed to provide doctors at the scene of an emergency with visual and functional information on the ventilation of the patient’s lungs, similar to an ECG of the heart. Data is acquired and transferred via an electrode belt attached to the patient’s chest. ICCAS is joined in this project by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at HTWK Leipzig University of Applied Sciences as well as the two commercial companies Fritz Stephan Medizintechnik GmbH and Gesellschaft für Intelligente Textile Produkte (ITP GmbH).

Their common goal is to develop a market-ready device certified under medical product legislation which substantially improves the monitoring of lung ventilation, particularly in intensive care and emergency medicine.

Auf dem diesjährigen 134. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie wird Prof. Thomas Neumuth einen eingeladenen Vortrag zum Thema “Modellierung von chirurgischen Eingriffen” halten. Der Vortag findet in der Session “Surgical Data Science: Ein Weg zur ‘akademischen Emanzipation’ der Chirurgie?” der Sektion “Minimalinvasive, computer- und telematik-assistierte Chirurgie (CTAC)” statt.

Wann? Dienstag, 21.03.2017 | 14:36 Uhr – 15:54 Uhr
Wo? Internationales Congress Center München, Obergeschoss 1, Saal 11