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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 … 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 … 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 with … Read more
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen received a teaching award for the lecture Computer-Assisted Surgery. The lecture was ranked as the best lecture at the Faculty of Computer Science in winter semester 2016/17. The award was handed out by the student representatives of the computer science faculty (FaRaFIN).
Gino Gulamhussene received the VDI promotional award (VDI Förderpreis) for his research on automatic calculation of optical blend mask for 3D projections. The research was performed in the company domeprojection, a research partner of the Faculty of Computer Science and the research campus STIMULATE. The award was handed out by Dr. Matthias Ihlow from the Association of … Read more
This month heralds the launch of a new project in collaboration with the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For the next two years, medical engineers and computer scientists from the research campus STIMULATE will cooperate with scientists, gamification designers and game user researchers of the Games Institute at University of Waterloo on innovative input and output concepts for medical … Read more
Christian Hansen received a 12-month research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG Research Fellowship). During a research stay at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, a new method of 2D map display for navigational support during neurosurgical interventions will be developed. The project results will deliver findings about … Read more