Institute News

In Bremen on Thursday, June 4, 2015, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the seventh time.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researchers Ina Nora Kompan and Federico von Samson-Himmelstjerna received a total of three ISMRM Merit Awards and a Poster Award at the 23rd Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) held from May 30 to June 5 in Toronto, Canada.

Prof. Eva Quante-Brandt, Bremen’s Senator for Education and Science visited the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS on Wednesday, 25 March.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Frank Heckel, Florian Tramnitzke and Nick Weiss have been awarded at the workshop „Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM 2015)“ which took place in Lübeck, March 15-17.

Since 1993, the Image Processing for Medicine workshop (BVM - Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin) has taken place annually and gives image processors in academics, medicine, and industry the opportunity to discuss research results and network. This year’s BVM takes place from March 15 to 17 in Lübeck, and the Fraunhofer MEVIS Project Group Image Registration will give a tutorial on the first day of the workshop.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presents itself to research and commercial partners at the 100th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) from November 30 - December 5 in Chicago, USA.

This year’s Challenge on Liver Ultrasound Tracking (CLUST) held at the conference MICCAI 2014 in Boston aimed to assess the performance of algorithms tracking liver features in 2D and 3D ultrasound sequences. Fraunhofer MEVIS contributed three uniquely different algorithms to the challenge:

Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher David Black was awarded a mobility stipend by the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie). He received the stipend to continue his research on the application of auditory display in minimally invasive surgery.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Frank Heckel was awarded with the 2nd place of the MedVis Award 2014 for his work on interactive editing of automatically generated tumor segmentations in CT data for chemo therapy monitoring.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is presenting itself at the “Medizin Innovativ - MedTech Pharma 2014” with an own booth (no. 115) on exhibition level 1 in the NürnbergConvention Center NCC Ost, NürnbergMesse from July 2-3 in Nuremberg.