CAMP & AR History

The Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (Informatikanwendungen in der Medizin) was created on 15th of October 2003 under the direction of Professor Dr. Nassir Navab. The main objective of the chair is to play the role of a strong research and educational link between medical and computer science communities. The chair aims at introducing new elements into the curriculum of the computer science students in order to better prepare them for a growing market and an exciting research field. In terms of research and development, the chair focuses on recovery and understanding of the workflow of medical procedures and on development of incremental, radical and fundamental technologies, which allow the physicians to improve the quality of medical procedures. Computer technology is playing an important role in 2D/3D/4D anatomical and functional imaging, reconstruction, segmentation, registration, navigation and advanced visualization. The chair is interested and active in these subjects with a particular emphasis on surgical workflow, medical augmented reality, multi-modal rigid and deformable registration and intra-operative tracking and navigation. In January 2005, Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D. and her existing research group on augmented reality (FAR), with particular emphasis on industrial applications, joined the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures. Due to the common needs for tracking, navigation and advanced visualization technologies in both medical and industrial applications, this addition strengthens the chair and turns it into one of the strongest international research groups in augmented reality. Prof. Navab and Prof. Klinker are both members of Steering Committee for IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. The chair has numerous collaborations with hospitals, various research centers on medical imaging and providers of healthcare and medical technologies. The chair also enjoys collaboration with many industrial partners interested in augmented reality, tracking, navigation and advanced visualization.

Our Alumni Dr. Isabelle Miederer test test1 June 2011 Dr. Alexander Ladikos Research Engineer at White Lion Technologies AG Real-Time Multi-View 3D Reconstruction for Interventional Environments5 May 2011 Dr. Hauke Heibel CTO of microDimensions Medical Tool Tracking in Fluoroscopic Interventions - New Insights in Detection and Tracking of Tubular Tools 2 May 2011 Dr. Christoph Bichlmeier Immersive, Interactive and Contextual In-Situ Visualization for Medical Applications 1 December 2010 Dr. Thomas Wendler Managing Director of SurgicEye GmbH 3D functional imaging with navigated probes5 October 2010 Dr. Marina Plavsic BMW Group Analyse und Modellierung des Fahrerverhaltens für Assistenzsysteme an Kreuzungen4 October 2010 Dr. Andreas Keil Post-doc at Stanford University Dynamic Variational Level Sets for Cardiac 4D Reconstruction16 September 2010 Dr. Arash Taki Market Development Manager of Covidien Improvement and Automatic Classification of IVUS-VH (Intravascular Ultrasound – Virtual Histology) Images 30 August 2010 Dr. Bjoern Schwerdtfeger Pick-by-Vision: Bringing HMD-based Augmented Reality into the Warehouse9 July 2010 Dr. Oliver Kutter Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Research Princeton NJ USA Visual Computing for Computer Assisted Interventions28 June 2010 Dr. Stephan Thoma BMW Group Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionskonzepte für Fahrerassistenzsysteme im Kreuzungsbereich28 April 2010 Dr. Nicolas Padoy Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Workflow and Activity Modeling for Monitoring Surgical Procedures14 April 2010 Dr. Florian Echtler Tangible Information Displays4 December 2009 Dr. Katharina Buckl Director Projects at metaio Augmented Reality based Factory Planning20 February 2009 Dr. Joerg Traub Managing Director of SurgicEye GmbH New Concepts for Design and Workflow Driven Evaluation of Computer Assisted Surgery Solutions 12 November 2008 Dr. Leonhard Walchshäusl TST Biometrics GmbH Maschinelle Erkennung von Verkehrsteilnehmern mittels heterogener Sensorik29 October 2008 Dr. Martin Groher CEO of microDimensions 2D-3D Registration of Angiographic Images8 April 2008 Dr. Marco Feuerstein COO of microDimensions Augmented Reality in Laparoscopic Surgery - New Concepts for Intraoperative Multimodal Imaging 15 October 2007 Dr. Wolfgang Wein CTO at White Lion Technologies AG, Munich, Germany Multimodal Integration of Medical Ultrasound for Treatment Planning and Interventions12 October 2007 Dr. Martin Bauer Product Manager Knee, Brainlab Tracking Errors in Augmented Reality10 September 2007 Dr. Hesam Najafi Staff Member at Qualcomm Corporate R & D, San Diego, CA Fast 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation for Augmented Reality Systems19 December 2006 Dipl.-Tech. Math. Univ. Maximilian Baust Polar Active Contours for Medical Applications Dr. Florent Brunet Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Andreas Hofhauser MVTec Software GmbH? Dr. Tobias Sielhorst Project manager at dSPACE GmbH Paderborn (--> Offline Simulator) New Methods for Medical Augmented Reality Dr. Simon Nestler User Experience Engineering at IntraWorlds GmbH Darko Zikic Dr. Ben Glocker Postdoc at Microsoft Research and Research Fellow at Darwin College in Cambridge (UK) Random Fields for Image Registration Dr. Eng. Selim Benhimane Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Cedric Cagniart Pierre Georgel Post-doc at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill with Jan-Michael Frahm Augmented Reality Tools for Digital Plant Engineering