Announcements

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Anneke Meyer (CAS group, University of Magdeburg) successfully applied for a travelling grant from the BMBF’s Professorinnen Program II. The grant amount of 5000€ will allow her to stay for one month in Boston, USA, in order to initiate a collaboration with the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL) at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical … Read more

Benjamin Hatscher (CAS group, University of Magdeburg) was awarded with a mobility grant by the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC). Benjamin works at the research campus STIMULATE in the field of human-computer interaction in medicine. The grant in the amount of €1500 should help to initiate a collaboration with the University of Waterloo, Canada and the Brigham and … Read more

Benjamin Hatscher joint our team in January 2016. Prior to that, he worked at Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal in the research group SPiRIT. Benjamin holds a master of arts in interaction design. In the CAS group, he will support our research in the field of human-machine interaction. Therefore, he will strongly collaborate with our partner from Siemens Healthcare, the Institute … Read more