Institute News

In Bremen on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the tenth time.

From May on, visitors of the Ars Electronica Center can watch the new short film “Physicians’ Colleague, Patients’ Helper: The Cognitive Computer” in the 3D theater Deep Space 8K. The film shows how deep neural networks contribute to the evaluation of medical data and how this also changes the role of physicians and patients.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researchers Markus Wenzel and Hans Meine instructed a 1-day-course on “Deep Learning for Image Understanding” on Saturday, February 10 as part of this year‘s SPIE Medical Imaging Conference held February 10–15 in Houston, Texas.

Fraunhofer MEVIS mourns the loss of an extraordinary person and a generous supporter of science. Conrad Naber died at the age of 95 on the night of January 29th.

About 100 participants and international experts from medicine, science, and industry discussed the potential of ultrasound technologies and solutions for medical diagnosis and therapy at the Charité Berlin in a 2-day symposium and a 1-day expert meeting on January 17–19, 2018.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is honored to receive the “Industry Award for Best Immersive Media” for the movie “The Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis” at the 4th “Raw Science Film Festival: The Bridge between Science and Media” held between January 5–7, 2018 in Santa Barbara, CA.

Fraunhofer MEVIS co-chairs the Live Demonstrations Workshop as part of the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference held February 10–15 in Houston/Texas.

The image “Individual Dose of Color” submitted by Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Nadine Spahr wins 4th place at the “RSNA 2017 Image Contest“ in the category “Radiology Art: Medical images altered into works of art“.

The EC-funded "Translational Brain Imaging Training Network" (TRABIT) launched with a kick-off meeting held in Copenhagen on November 20, 2017.

A kick-off event on November 22, 2017 launched a joint project for the development of novel navigation systems for the treatment of vascular diseases, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).