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We have received new funding to expand our VR/AR laboratory with five high-end workstations and several new 3D input devices. The equipment is funded by an internal grant (€18.000) from the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg. We would like to take advantage of the equipment, offering students new opportunities to gain … Read more
Mengfei Li successfully defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Toward a Robust Electromagnetic Tracking System for Use in Medical Applications”. Congratulations! It is the first successfully completed dissertation in the CAS group. The scientific supervision of the dissertation was carried out by Prof. Dr. Georg Rose and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen at the research campus STIMULATE.
Marko Rak and Christian Hansen, scientists at the STIMULATE research campus and the Faculty of Computer Science, were awarded a NVIDIA GPU Grant. NVIDIA supports their research in the field of human-computer interaction and medical image computing with the donation of one NVIDIA Titan Xp graphics card.
Florian Heinrich, a PhD student at the STIMULATE research campus and the Faculty of Computer Science, was awarded as the best Master’s graduate of the Faculty of Computer Science of the 2016/17 graduation year. Florian Heinrich received a doctoral scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt in July 2017. He is currently investigating new interaction and … Read more
Anneke Meyer and Mareike Gabele have been accepted into the COMETiN programme to promote young female scientists at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. The two scientists are currently working at the research campus STIMULATE and the Faculty of Computer Science in the field of medical informatics. The COMETiN programme promotes the individual career development of women scientists … Read more
Marko Rak, researcher at the research campus STIMULATE and the Faculty of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke University, has been distinguished with a Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) together with Prof. Dr. Klaus Tönnies for the scientific contribution “Star Convex Cuts with Encoding Swaps for Fast Whole-Spine Vertebra Segmentation in MRI” at the International Symposium … Read more
Dr. Sandy Engelhardt will represent the professorship of Computer-Assisted Surgery this semester. During this time, she collaborates closely with the Chairs of CAS and Visualization, particularly in her specialty of computer support in cardiology and cardiac surgery. Dr. Sandy Engelhardt did her PhD in the field of Medical Informatics at the German Cancer Research Center … Read more
Within the scope of the project “Foot-Eye Interaction to Control Medical Software Under Sterile Conditions”, a two-day project meeting with Prof. Dr. Lennart Nacke (Games Institute, University of Waterloo, Canada) took place. Current student exchange projects have been evaluated and a concept for the exchange of PhD students from both institutes has been developed. Within … Read more
Benjamin Hatscher, Maria Luz and Christian Hansen were awarded with the MuC research award for the best paper at the “Mensch und Computer” conference (MuC) in Regensburg. With more than 700 participants, the MuC is one of the largest scientific meetings on human-computer interaction in Europe. The article “Foot Interaction Concepts to Support Radiological Interventions“, … Read more
Anneke Meyer (Computer Assisted Surgery Group, Faculty of Computer Science) and Johannes Steffen (Image Processing Group, Faculty of Computer Science) successfully applied for two new Deep Learning Workstations. With the new workstations, students of Computational Visualistics, Computer Science and Medical Engineering will investigate machine learning algorithms for medicine. The work is performed in strong cooperation … Read more