Institute News

Together with Professor Mike Kirby from the University of Utah, Fraunhofer MEVIS researchers Professor Tobias Preusser and Dr. Torben Pätz jointly authored a book titled „Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data“ published in July 2017.

On July 4, 2017, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Lübeck organized together with Fraunhofer MEVIS the 5th Lübeck Summer Academy (LSA) on Medical Technology.

In Bremen on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the ninth time.

The “Multimodal Workstation for Analysis of Retinal Images” was selected as the winning demonstration at the Live Demonstrations Workshop of the SPIE Medical Imaging 2017 which took place February 11-16 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Jennifer Nitsch and Hans Meine won the NVIDIA Demo Contest at the 24th Project Week of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) which was held during the week of January 9-13, 2017 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Fraunhofer MEVIS hosted second Matchmaking and Business Trip between UMC Groningen and Metropolitan Region Northwest on Thursday, January 19.

A new artist-in-residence program connects computer assisted medicine with education and art.

Professor Matthias Günther from the Department of Physics / Electrical Engineering at the University of Bremen and as well head of MR Imaging at Fraunhofer MEVIS receives € 100,000 within the funding initiative Experiment! by the VolkswagenStiftung.

On October 1, the AUDIOVERSUM in Innsbruck, Austria, presents for the first time the new interactive exhibit and the „Meta-realistic Medical Moving Images” to the visitors during the Long Night of Museums.

Institute Director Prof. Dr. Horst K. Hahn will give two talks in the Deep Space 8k at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, on September 9 and 10.

Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists present at the 5th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound in Bethesda, MD, about their recent work in the field of software assistance for FUS.

On Thursday, July 21, the kick-off meeting for the project MS-Atrophie took place at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen. MS-Atrophie is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the program KMU-innovativ: Medizintechnik for three years.

In Bremen on Thursday, June 2, 2016, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the eighth time.

Today and tomorrow, May 26 and 27, Fraunhofer MEVIS and its partner, the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group (DIAG) of the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands, gather in Bremen for a symposium for all interested colleagues of the two MEVIS locations and DIAG.

From March 7 to March 10, Fraunhofer will offer a special opportunity to young researchers: In the context of Wissenschaftscampus organized by Fraunhofer MEVIS together with Fraunhofer IFAM and Fraunhofer IWES, female students in the fields mathematics, IT, natural science and technology (MINT) will have the possibility to peek behind the scenes of the institute for computer support for image-based medicine.

Researchers from the DIAG, Nijmegen, have developed a novel computer-aided detection technique to highlight temporal changes in lung cancer screening scans.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presents image analysis and registration solutions to research and commercial partners at the 2nd Annual Digital Pathology Congress.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presents itself to research and commercial partners at the 101st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) from November 29 - December 4 in Chicago, USA.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Dr.-Ing. Mathias Neugebauer was awarded with the Best Paper Award (1st Prize) at the 29th International Congress for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), held from June 24 to 27 in Barcelona, Spain.

The exhibition showcases the development of computer graphics and the growth of the MEVIS Group over the last 40 years. Starting with the establishment of the Institute for Dynamic Systems in 1978, the exhibition presents institute spin-offs from the 1990s CeVis, MeVis, and MeVis Medical Solutions (MMS), as well as the adoption of MeVis Research into the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in 2009.

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.