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We are proud that the master thesis of our former master student Philipp Ernst was recommended by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg for the “Award des Fakultätstages Informatik – Herausragende Masterarbeit”. We will keep our fingers crossed. During his master thesis at the Computer-Assisted Surgery Group, Philip developed a novel CNN-based framework that … Read more
Our project proposal “Improving Spatial Perception for Medical Augmented Reality with Interactable Depth Layers” was accepted for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Within the next three years, we will investigate methods to improve the spatial perception for medical AR. Our objective is to determine if depth layer decompositions help to better understand spatial … Read more
We are excited that our group will be represented at MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen together with the research campus STIMULATE. The contribution of Philipp Ernst, a former Master student of us and now part of the MEMoRIAL Graduate School, was accepted as a full paper, which is an outstanding achievement, especially as it is his first scientific paper. The paper … Read more
In cooperation with the Chair of Visualization (Prof. Bernhard Preim, Dr. Patrick Saalfeld) and the research campus STIMULATE (Prof. Rose), a number of student projects in the field of AR/VR have recently been successfully completed. The projects were funded by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg from funds of the Hochschulpakt 2020. … Read more
Christian Hansen and Vuthea Chheang visited the Department of Computer Science of Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, South Korea to discuss a future cooperation with Prof. Kwan-Hee Yoo in the field of Virtual Reality Interaction. The discussions were very successful and a number of cooperation possibilities were identified. In particular, a close partnership with the research campus STIMULATE in the field … Read more
On October 12, 2018, the kick-off meeting for the new BMBF-funded project AVATAR took place at the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Under the direction of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen, AVATAR will investigate new interaction and visualization techniques for virtual training of surgeons. The University Hospital Mainz, the Harvard Medical School in … Read more
There are two new vacancies from the VIS/CAS Group in the field of Virtual Reality in surgical training: – PhD Student in the field of VR-Interaction – Post-Doc Researcher in the field of VR-Interaction Please contact Christian Hansen for more details.
Thanks to funding from the STIMULATE research campus, our colleagues Anneke Meyer, Gino Gulamhussene and Marko Rak were able to attend the 28th NA-MIC Project Week in Gran Canaria, Spain. Endorsed by the MICCAI Society, the NA-MIC Project Week seeks to connect people with different backgrounds and from different countries to magnify the impact of … Read more
Anneke Meyer attended the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in Washington, D.C. from April 3rd to April 7th. The ISBI brought together more than 700 researchers from biological and medical imaging. Anneke Meyer presented her work about high resolution segmentation of the prostate in MR images. The novelty of her work comprises … Read more
Marko Rak, researcher at the research campus STIMULATE and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke University, successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Image Analysis in Public Health Studies – Fast Methods for Spine and Aorta Analysis in MRI”. Congratulations Marko! The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Tönnies at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg.