Institute News

NeuroQLab, a software assistant developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS for the purpose of neurosurgical planning and quantitative image analysis, has been ranked as the best tool in a clinical study, where the accuracy of nine different tractography algorithms has been examined.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is presenting software assistants for image-based diagnosis and therapy within the Quantitative Imaging Reading Room at the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) taking place from November 25-30 in Chicago.

On November 12, 2012 the collaborative European project IMPACT started its work on the development of an innovative patient-specific approach for Deep Brain Stimulation therapy.

Beginning September 1, 2012, a total of approximately 15M euro from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the OR.NET research and development project.

Christian Hansen, scientific researcher at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen, was awarded with the NDI Best Student Paper Award at the 26th International Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2012) held on June 27 – 30, 2012 in Pisa, Italy.

Jennifer Nitsch was awarded by the "Verein zur Förderung der Hochschule Bremerhaven" with the prize for the best thesis acknowledging her outstanding bachelor thesis in medical engineering at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences.

On June 14, 2012, the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS holds its 4th meeting on campus. Jacobs University has been enjoying a fruitful collaboration on numerous levels with the Bremen based research institution, which is world-leading in developing computer aided, image-based medical diagnosis and therapy. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Jacobs University’s new president elect, will attend the meeting in his current role as Fraunhofer MEVIS’ director.

The Board of Governors of the private Jacobs University in Bremen-Grohn elected the Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS, Prof. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, to be the university's new President.

At the DRK in the Congress Center in Hamburg, Fraunhofer MEVIS will again take part in the DRK with its own exhibition booth (J 23) at the Forum for Industry (Industrieforum). Congress participants will gain insight into clinical applications for image-based diagnosis and intervention support.

HAMAM: successful outcome for project to improve breast cancer diagnosis through integrated clinical workstation.

The long and fruitful collaboration between the Visualization Group at the University of Magdeburg and Fraunhofer MEVIS leads to another nice success.

Fraunhofer MEVIS takes part in the exhibition and workshop "Novel technology that shapes Radiology: EIBIR presents IMAGINE" at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna from March 1-5.

The precise surgical implementation of complex, patient-specific operation planning places high demands on the intraoperative orientation of surgeons.

Florian Weiler, Christian Rieder, Carlos A. David, Christoph Wald and Horst K. Hahn received the 3rd prize in the Dirk Bartz Eurographics Medical Prize Competition at the conference Eurographics 2011 in Wales.

Fraunhofer MEVIS takes part in the EIBIR presents IMAGINE exhibition and workshop at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) from March 3-7 in Vienna.

The planning of a treatment of tumors with focused ultrasound is still challenging, mainly in moving organs with a complex blood supply.

He received the award for the paper „Interactive Approximation of the Ablation Zone incorporating the Heatsink Effects of Radiofrequency Ablation“ together with the co-authors Dr. Inga Altrogge, Dr. Tim Kröger, Dr. Stephan Zidowitz and Prof. Dr. Tobias Preusser.

Dr. Joachim Georgii, Fraunhofer MEVIS employee of the working groups Modeling/Simulation and Registration, received the “Best Paper Award” of the “7th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS 2010)” in Copenhagen.

Dr. Nils Papenberg, Fraunhofer MEVIS employee of the Project Group Image Registration in Luebeck, was honored with the State University Award 2010 by the University of Luebeck.

As father of fractal geometry Benoît Mandelbrot received worldwide reputation. He enriched the sciences by a theory of „roughness“ and changed our view of the world.