Institute News

About 100 participants and international experts from medicine, science, and industry discussed the potential of ultrasound technologies and solutions for medical diagnosis and therapy at the Charité Berlin in a 2-day symposium and a 1-day expert meeting on January 17–19, 2018.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is honored to receive the “Industry Award for Best Immersive Media” for the movie “The Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis” at the 4th “Raw Science Film Festival: The Bridge between Science and Media” held between January 5–7, 2018 in Santa Barbara, CA.

Fraunhofer MEVIS co-chairs the Live Demonstrations Workshop as part of the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference held February 10–15 in Houston/Texas.

The image “Individual Dose of Color” submitted by Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Nadine Spahr wins 4th place at the “RSNA 2017 Image Contest“ in the category “Radiology Art: Medical images altered into works of art“.

The EC-funded "Translational Brain Imaging Training Network" (TRABIT) launched with a kick-off meeting held in Copenhagen on November 20, 2017.

A kick-off event on November 22, 2017 launched a joint project for the development of novel navigation systems for the treatment of vascular diseases, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The employees of Fraunhofer MEVIS mourn for Hartmut Jürgens who died at the age of 62 years after a serious illness on Saturday, September 23, 2017.

Today the 7th Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) opens its doors at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen for two days of interdisciplinary exchange.

A study in ten patients with aortic valve replacement (AVR) indicates that model-based therapy planning is able to accurately predict post-operative haemodynamics after AVR.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is delighted to announce independent evaluation results of the workshops with pupils in the course of the artist-in-residency program STEAM imaging.

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.