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New cooperation with Chungbuk National University, South Korea

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New cooperation with Chungbuk National University, South Korea

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

Start of new BMBF-Project AVATAR

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Start of new BMBF-Project AVATAR

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 … Read more

New PhD/Post-Doc positions

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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.

Visit of NA-MIC Project Week

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Visit of NA-MIC Project Week

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

Presentation at IEEE ISBI 2018

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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

Successful PhD Defense

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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, … Read more

Expansion of our VR/AR laboratory

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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 Magdeburg. We would like to take advantage of the equipment, offering students new opportunities to … Read more

Successful PhD Defense

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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.

NVIDIA GPU Grant

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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.

Award for Florian Heinrich

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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

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