Athanasios Karamalis, MSc Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality Fakultät für Informatik Technische Universität München Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching b. München Germany Phone : +49 89 289 17077 Email :

Research Interest

• Ultrasound
  • Modeling
  • Simulation
  • Segmentation
  • Imaging
• Medical Imaging and Visualization
• GPU accelerated Algorithms and Parallel Computing

Publications

2012
	T. Klein, M. Hansson, A. Karamalis, N. Navab Registration of RF Ultrasound Data using Hybrid Local Binary Patterns To appear in : IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Barcelona, Spain (bib)
	A. Katouzian, A. Karamalis, , N. Navab A Systematic Approach Toward Reliable Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization in IVUS Images To appear in : Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Berlin, Germany (bib)
2011
	A. Ahmadi, M. Baust, A. Karamalis, A. Plate, K. Bötzel, T. Klein, N. Navab Midbrain Segmentation in Transcranial 3D Ultrasound for Parkinson Diagnosis In Proc. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Toronto (CA), September 18-22, 2011 (bib)
2010
	A. Karamalis, W. Wein, N. Navab Fast Ultrasound Image Simulation using the Westervelt Equation In Proc. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Beijing, China, September 20-24 2010 (bib)
2009
	O. Kutter, A. Karamalis, W. Wein, N. Navab A GPU-Based Framework for Simulation of Medical Ultrasound SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2009 (bib)
	A. Karamalis, W. Wein, O. Kutter, N. Navab Fast Hybrid Freehand Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2009 (bib)

Professional Activities

• Reviewer for
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
  • International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
  • Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine
• Member of European PASSPORT Project

Available Student Projects

• Check out our Ultrasound Projects or feel free to come by and ask.

Running Student Projects

• Automatic Bone Detection in Ultrasound for CT-US Registration in Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (Julian Beitzel)

Finished Student Project

• Rapid-Application-Development Platform in Matlab for Segmentation and Registration in Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery by Yasmin Blunck, co-supervised with Ahmad Ahmadi
• Visualization of 4D Breathing Motion from Medical Dataset by Markus Müller
• RF2B : RF to B-mode Ultrasound by André Dau, co-supervised with Christian Wachinger

Teaching

• Tutor (WS12) Grundlagen Betriebssystem und Systemsoftware
• Lab Course (SS11) Kinect Programming for Computer Vision
• Lecture (SS11) Computer Aided Medical Procedures 2
• Organizer (WS10) Computer Aided Medical Procedures 1
• Tutor (WS09) Praktikum Grundlagen der Programmierung
• Lab Course (WS09) Projekt Systementwicklung: Bildverarbeitung und Computer-Graphik mit C++
• Lecture (SS09) Computer Aided Medical Procedures 2

MSc Thesis

• GPU ultrasound simulation and volume reconstruction. In collaboration with Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA
• Thesis homepage, Thesis PDF, Thesis Presentation (without videos)