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After a project duration of almost 4 years, the BMBF-funded project “Development of Augmented and Virtual Multi-User Applications for Medical-Technical Exchange in Immersive Spaces” (AVATAR) was successfully completed. Together with the Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery of the University Hospital Mainz and the two Magdeburg companies metratec GmbH and 2tainment GmbH, a new … Read more
Vuthea Chheang successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Collaborative Virtual Reality for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Training and Planning” on August 31, 2022. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Nigel John (University of Chester, UK), Prof. Bernhard Jung (University of Technology and Mining in Freiberg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg, … Read more
Anneke Meyer successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Exploiting Supplementary Data and Knowledge for Improved CNN-based Segmentation of Prostate Structures in T2-weighted MRI”” on March 30, 2022. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Dorit Mehrhof (RTWH Aachen), Prof. Dr. Andrey Federov (Harvard Medical School, Boston) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). … Read more
From 30 August to 10 September 2021, a team from our group participated in the second edition of the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School. The international online event brought scientists, clinicians and colleagues from industry together to listen to exciting talks on the topic of medical augmented reality. The Summer School was organized by scientists … Read more
Fabian Joeres successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Augmented Reality in Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy” on December 13, 2021. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel (National Center for Tumor Diseases, Dresden), Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumuth (University of Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). Fabian conducted his research in … Read more
Florian Heinrich received the Karl Heinz Hoehne Award for his work in the field of medical augmented reality visualization. Two articles published in the journal “IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics” were considered. The combination of the articles allows for an evidence-based recommendation on which AR display and visualization concept to use for navigated … Read more
The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) is the leading international event in the fields of virtual, augmented and mixed reality, showcasing groundbreaking research and accomplishments by virtual reality pioneers since 1993. Two of our PhD students had the opportunity to participate virtually in the event, which would normally have … Read more
Benjamin Hatscher successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Touchless, Direct Input Methods for Human-Computer Interaction to Support Image-Guided Interventions” on August 28, 2020. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Raimund Dachselt (University of Dresden), Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka (University of Bremen) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). Benjamin conducted his research … Read more
Our group member Danny Schott teamed up with Patrick Saalfeld from the Visualization group for Ultraleap´s Beyond Touchscreens 3-week developer competition. They needed to develop an innovative public interface for a post-COVID-19 world using the Leap motion controller. The proof-of-concept shows an interactive prototype, which enables a contactless food configuration in restaurants by means of … Read more
Fabian Joeres received the Best Presentation Award at the FIN Doctoral Symposium for his contribution “intraoperative software assistance for minimally invasive partial nephrectomy”. The research for this project is carried out at the research campus STIMULATE.
