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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.
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