Research Interests
- Navigation and Computer Aided Surgery
- Evaluation of Navigation Systems in Medicine
- Augmented Reality in Medicine
- Hybrid User Interfaces for Surgery and Interventions
Theses, SEPs, and IDPs under my (Co-)Supervision
Finished:
- Optimized Workflow for Integration of Pre-operative Images into a Intra-operative Imaging Application by Dominik Zaeuner (Diploma Thesis)
- C-arm Motion Estimation without Radiation by Maximilian Springer (DA/MA/BA)
- Visual Servoing for Camera Augmented Mobile C-arm by Thomas Weich (IDP)
- Error Classification and Propagation for Electromagnetic Tracking by Julian Much (DA/MA/BA)
- CamC Artificial Fluoroscopy by Philipp Dressel (IDP)
- Online Error Correction for the Tracking of Laparoscopic Ultrasound by Tobias Reichl (Diploma Thesis)
- Fiducial-Free Registration Procedure for Navigated Bronchoscopy by Tassilo Klein (DA/MA/BA)
- Depth Control and UI for Camera Augmented Mobile C-arm by Philipp Dressel (SEP)
- Fast and efficient error correction of electromagnetic tracking and its application in prostate cancer treatment by Claudia Thormann (Diploma Thesis)
- Experiments and Validation of a Three-Dimensional Accelerometer in a Belt Buckle, ActiBelt, for Continuous Multiple Sclerosis Patient Monitoring by Thomas Gossner (Diploma Thesis)
- Gamma Probe Modelling and Calibration for SPECT Reconstruction by Alexander Hartl (IDP)
- Visual Servoing for CamC by Tassilo Klein (SEP)
- CamC Visual Servoing Interface by Tassilo Klein (SEP)
- User interface to create precalibrated tool description files by Miriam Wiegand (SEP)
- Navigated Flexible Procedures (Bronchoscopy) by Julian Much (SEP)
- Error Correction for Electromagnetic Tracking by Sukhbansbir Kaur (DA/MA/BA)
- Development of an automatic multimodal in-situ visualisation tool by Latifa Omary, Philipp Stefan (IDP)
- Evaluation of inside-out and outside-in pose estimation by Timo Gebhardt (SEP)
- Optical and Magnetic Tracking by Sintje Göritz (Diploma Thesis)
- Augmentation of Segmented Liver Data onto the Endoscope View by Stefan Wiesner (IDP)
- Analysing the Accuracy of the Fluoroscopic Navigation and Image Registration in an established Medical Software Application by Matthias Assel (Diploma Thesis)
- 3D view of stereo laparoscope in the operating room by Benjamin Stetter (SEP)
- Real-time Computation of Depth Maps with an Application to Occlusion Handling in Augmented Reality by Hauke Heibel (DA/MA/BA)
Awards
April 18, 2005: "Werner von Siemens Excellence Award" for outstanding diploma thesis.
Design of an Intra-Operative Augmented Reality Navigation Tool for Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery . Supervised by Martin Bauer, Hesam Najafi, and Prof. Gudrun Klinker. In collaboration with Deutsche Herzzentrum München (Eva Schirmbeck and PD Dr. Robert Bauernschmitt). Follow this link to see images of the ceremony at Siemens Forum
Other Activities
- Student Volunteer Chair at ISMAR 2005 in Vienna, Austria
- Financial Chair and Panel Organizer at AMI-ARCS 2006 Workshop during MICCAI conference in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Workshop Coordinator of the 1st Iranian-German Workshop on Medical Engineering 2006 in Munich, Germany
- Exchange Program Coordination of the DAAD German Iranian - Avicenna Roentgen Collaboration
- Interview at the Open Day 2006 in Garching for the BR. (see inteview)
- Organization of AR Tutorial at MICCAI 2007 in Brisbane, Australia