OOC Research Seminar with Prof. Dr.med. Marco Nikolic, University College London, on developmental and stem cell biology in the context of lung regeneration.
The ARTORG Center congratulates Matthias Fontanellaz for his successful PhD thesis defense on 29 November 2023! At the AI in Health and Nutrition lab, Matthias investigated AI as support tool under the title “From diagnosis to disease management: the use of AI in medical decision support systems”. For his research, he focused on AI technology to diagnose lung diseases from CT imaging and also encompassing work on blood glucose prediction.
18. December 2023
ValTech Lifesciences, a new venture of the ARTORG Center Cardiovascular Engineering group wins Venture Kick first stage financial and entrepreneurial support, together with five other startups. The team around co-founders are Dr. Shaokai Zheng and Prof. Dr. Dominik Obrist wants to develop a non-thrombogenic, durable heart valve prosthesis.
14. December 2023
The ARTORG Center congratulates Emile Talon for successfully defending his PhD thesis on 7 December 2023. Emile has researched bone-conduction hearing aids and their optimal implantation location under the title “Image-guidance for optimized bone conduction implantation”. For his thesis at the Hearing Research Lab, he has delved into the characteristics of bone, such as thickness and bone mineral density at the skull base, which exert a profound influence on the efficient propagation of mechanical vibrations which transmit sound in bone-conduction implants.
11. December 2023
Congratulations to Alice Dudle for her successful PhD thesis defense on 4 December 2023! At the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics lab and as part of the SNF Sinergia project AFFIRM-CT, Alice has investigated risk parameters for fragility fractures at the hip. Her thesis “DXA- and QCT-based modeling of the human proximal femur towards improved hip fracture prediction” developed image processing methods required to include both DXA and QCT images into a hip fracture calculator.
07. December 2023
The ARTORG Center congratulates Malavika Nambiar for her successful PhD thesis defense on 23 November 2023! Malavika has studied the “Material Characterization of the Cornea” to pave the way “Towards Personalized Refractive Interventions” at the Computational Bioengineering Lab. For this work, she used both experimental and numerical approaches to unravel the mechanical complexities and morphological nuances of corneal tissue and thus inform future surgical techniques.
29. November 2023
Congratulations to Noëlle Harte for her successful PhD thesis defense on 16 November 2023! Noëlle examined “The spiral shape of the cochlea” at the Hearing Research Lab. The transverse flow phenomena she observed for her PhD project offer new insights into cochlear fluid dynamics, with potential implications for metabolite transport.
17. November 2023
The ARTORG Center congratulates Elias Rüfenacht for his successful PhD thesis defense at the Medical Image Analysis lab on 24 October 2023. His project Data-centric and Clinically-relevant AI-based Segmentation of Intracranial Tumors and Organs-at-Risk for Radiotherapy” developed a radiation therapy-oriented deep learning framework as well as a new learning paradigm to create dosimetric-aware AI segmentation models for radiation therapy.
09. November 2023
Dr. Manuela Eugster has been appointed Assistant Professor with tenure track in Robotics and Micromechatronics, starting this month at the ARTORG Center and the Department of Neurosurgery Inselspital. At her previous position at the Bio-Inspired Robots for Medicine-Lab (BIROMED-Lab), University of Basel, she has acquired a broad skillset in minimally invasive surgical robotics including robotic endoscopes, high precision end-effectors and in situ bioprinting, which she will now employ to form a new specialized research group at the ARTORG Center.
07. November 2023
The ARTORG Center congratulates Aileen Naef for her successful PhD thesis defense on 1 November 2023! Aileen investigated at the Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation Lab how sensory overload of patients during stays at the Intensive Care Unit could be mitigated by immersive virtual reality interventions under the title “The Development, Application, and Evaluation of Virtual Reality Technology to Decrease Sensory Overload in the Intensive Care Unit”.
03. November 2023
Introducing saliency feature learning to multi-sequence MRI could improve the segmentation quality of deep learning systems. This is the finding of a recent study of the Medical Image Analysis lab in collaboration with the Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) and the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital.
26. October 2023
The ARTORG Center congratulates Robert Poel for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Radiotherapy oriented quality control for deep learning based fully automated segmentation of intracranial targets and organs at risk” on 20 October 2023! As member of the Medical Image Analysis lab, Robert’s PhD research focused on advancing the topic of AI-based segmentation for Radiation Therapy purposes closer to the clinical needs.
23. October 2023