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NeuroRAD Award

By / April 9, 2021

Der Verein Hirn-Aneurysma-Erkrankte „Der Lebenszweig e.V.“ vergibt auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neuroradiologie e.V. (neuroRAD) für den besten Vortrag und das beste Poster aus dem Bereich Aneurysma / AVM je 500 €.

In diesem Jahr wurde der STIMULATE-Beitrag im Rahmen des neuroRAD-Kongresses als bester Vortrag ausgezeichnet:

Larsen, Naomi; Saalfeld, Sylvia; Flüh, Charlotte; Voß, Samuel; Hille, Georg; Pravdivtseva, Mariya; Berg, Philipp: Fokales Enhancement intrakranieller Aneurysmen im MR vessel wall imaging: Multimodale Validierung eines Biomarkers für ein erhöhtes Rupturrisiko, In: 55. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neuroradiologie e.V., Frankfurt, Germany, Clinical Neuroradiology, Suppl 1, 30, pages 9-10, 10/2020

Weitere Informationen zum wissenschaftlichen Beitrag können der assoziierten Publikation entnommen werden: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00234-020-02498-6

VCBM 2020

By / April 9, 2021

Our contribution “Learning Hand Anatomy with Sense of Embodiment” by Patrick Saalfeld, Aylin Albrecht, Wolfgang D’Hanis, Hermann-Josef Rothkötter and Bernhard Preim was awarded as best short paper at the Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine!

In this project, we developed a virtual reality prototype for an immersive exploration of the hand anatomy. This interdisciplinary project was joint work with the Institute of Anatomy at the University Hospital of Magdeburg.

Funding for 5 VR Headsets for Student Projects

By / April 9, 2021

We upgraded our VR lab with 5 HTC Vive Pro Eye VR headsets. These allow us to track all headsets in an area of 10 by 10 meters at the same time. We will use this setup to support lectures and student projects of our faculty with hands-on demonstrations of spatial interaction. The equipment is funded by an internal grant from the Faculty of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg.

Mensch und Computer Conference

By / April 9, 2021

Together with the VR/AR group (Prof. C. Hansen) we organized the German HCI conference covering a wide range of basic and applied research topics with some 800 participants. User interfaces for cars, for elderly users, for medical technology – these are just examples for the topics discussed in various formats. The full-, short- and demo paper talks are available on the conference’s YouTube Channel. Links: MUC2020 Website, OvGU Press Release

2nd Place for worldwide touchless interaction contest

By / April 9, 2021

Patrick Saalfeld teamed up with Danny Schott from the Virtual and Augmented Reality Group for Ultraleap´s Beyond Touchscreens 3-week developer competition. They needed to develop an innovative public interface for a post-COVID-19 world using the Leap motion controller. The proof-of-concept shows an interactive prototype, which enables a contactless food configuration in restaurants by means of hand gestures.

More details can be found in the company’s blog article: https://www.ultraleap.com/company/news/developer/developer-comp-winners/

The demo video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD4NH8BebZE

PhD Thesis submitted

By / April 9, 2021

Shiva Alemzadeh submitted her Phd thesis on “Visual Analytics of Epidemiological and Multi-Omics Data”. She is currently working as a researcher at the VRVis in Vienna.

PhD Thesis submitted

By / April 9, 2021

Benjamin Behrendt submitted his Phd thesis on “Visual Exploration and Comparison of Cardiac and Cerebral Blood Flow Data”. He contiuned our collaboration with the Heart center Leipzig and initiated a cooperation with Ingrid Hotz’ group in Norrköping.

Habilitation defended

By / April 9, 2021

Sylvia Saalfeld successfully defended her Habilitation (post-doctoral lecture qualification) with a talk on Computer support for intracranial aneurysms – summarizing her extensive research on many aspects of that topic. Heinz Handels joined us via a video conference as external reviewer. With enough space between us, approximately 30 participants were possible.

EuroVis Awards

By / April 9, 2021

We are happy that Monique’s Phd thesis was selected for the EuroVis Phd Award. Kai was chosen as winner of the EuroVis Young Researcher Award for his overall contributions to visualization in general and EuroVis in particular.

PhD Thesis defended

By / April 9, 2021

Nico Merten successfully defended his defense „Maps, Risk and Visualization Supported Reports for Multimodal Medical Image Data“. Prof. Th. Deserno and Prof. Heinrich Müller served as external reviewers and joined the defense via a video conference.