IMAGINE (IMage- and Atlas-Guided Interventions in NEurosurgery)


Staff: Karl Rohr, H. Siegfried Stiehl, Mike Fornefett, Sönke Frantz, Alexander Hagemann
Associated Students: Jürgen Adler, Manfred Alker, Thorsten Behrens, Evgueni Gladiline, Thomas Hartkens (Phd Student), Christoph Justkowski, Jan Kohlrausch, Andreas Pünjer, Frank Schröder, Stefan Wörz
Former Staff Members: Wolfgang Beil, Rainer Sprengel
Former Students: Lutz Binder, Sönke Frantz, Alexander Hagemann, Lars Jaschob, Detlef Johannsen, Stefan Lippmann, Dirk Nachtmann, Dieter Nützel, Wladimir Peckar (Phd Student), Michael Rosenthal, Michael Skusa, Christian Stock, Holm Wegner
Funding/Collaboration: Philips Research Laboratories Hamburg

Duration: 1994-2000
Keywords: Medical image analysis, 3D multimodality image registration, Elastic matching, Anatomical landmark localization, Biomechanical brain modelling



Development of algorithms and methods for computer-assisted analysis of tomographic images (e.g., CT and MR datasets). Applications are the planning and simulation of interventions in neurosurgery. One main work area is elastic registration of medical images as well as elastic registration of images with digital atlases of the human brain. Another topic is the semi-automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from images. These landmarks serve as features for the registration of different datasets. A third topic is biomechanical modelling of brain deformations. The project is carried out in collaboration with Philips Research Hamburg.

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