ARTORG wins MICCAI 2020 Cataract surgery challenge

Cataract surgery is the most frequent surgery worldwide with a rising tendency. This year’s international challenge on AuTomatic Activity Recognition for catarACT Surgery hosted by MICCAI 2020 aimed to push research in increased safety and efficiency of this intervention. On 4 October 2020, a team from the ARTORG Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (AIMI) lab was ranked first among all challenge competitors with a method recognizing both surgical tools and activity from a microscope video stream.

Grants & Awards AIMI – AI in Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence

08. October 2020

Effects of bioprosthetic heart valves

Prosthetic heart valves are known to lead to turbulent blood flow. Just how this turbulence comes to form was now investigated for the first time by researchers from the ARTORG Cardiovascular Engineering Lab. They performed a detailed characterization of the turbulent flow downstream of a bioprosthetic aortic valve using computational simulations validated against experimental measurements of the turbulent flow field with tomographic particle image velocimetry.

Research CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering Biomechanics

30. September 2020

SurgeonsLab wins Innosuisse Core Coaching

After its successes with Venture Kick, the spinoff of the ARTORG Image Guided Therapy lab and the Inselspital Neurosurgery Department has been awarded Core Coaching by the Swiss Innovation Agency. SurgeonsLab is developing patient-specific 4D simulations for high-precision micro-neurosurgeries such as aneurysm clipping or coiling. After a successful feasibility study with experienced neurosurgeons and residents, the startup will be using the CHF 50'000 Core Coaching funds to scale its products to an international market and follow with more user studies and clinical application trials.

Grants & Awards IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Surgical Technologies

29. September 2020

Sinergia Project on Shoulder Modelling

Together with the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory at EPFL, Philippe Büchler, Computational Bioengineering at ARTORG, will be performing a comprehensive analysis of biomarkers that can predict the outcome of total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) in elderly patients. The project in collaboration with the CHUV aims at developing better prediction parameters of complications frequently associated with (TSA) due to limited bone stock available to anchor the implant, a degenerated anatomy, or restricted muscles competences.

Grants & Awards Research CBE – Computational Bioengineering Biomechanics

28. September 2020

Great interest in the ARTORG workshop

50 men and women visited the ARTORG workshop Mechanical Design and Production yesterday afternoon to get a first-hand impression of the production process. In four visitor slots they experienced the workshop's new computer numerical control (CNC) milling and turning machines in operation.

Events MDP – Mechanical Production Workshop

24. September 2020

CURAC 2020: 3D models in patient-neurosurgeon communication

The ARTORG Image Guided Therapy group will be at the Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie (CURAC) in Hamburg (17-19.09.2020). Fredrick Johnson Joseph will present the preliminary results of an ongoing study in which neurosurgeons use patient-specific 3D printouts of the skull and brain to inform patients about an upcoming aneurysm surgery.

Events IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Surgical Technologies

17. September 2020

Ingrid Odermatt wins SSBE Student Award 2020

At the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering, 27 August 2020, Ingrid Odermatt was awarded the prize for the best Master thesis. Her research “My virtual hand: Does body ownership enhance motor performance?” investigated the interplay between psychology and virtual reality in motor performance.

Grants & Awards MLN – Motor Learning & Neurorehabilitation (former) Rehabilitation & Neural Engineering Virtual & Augmented Reality

16. September 2020

ARTORG Workshop Open Afternoon

The workshop Mechanical Design and Production (MDP) of the ARTORG Center invites interested researchers to meet the team and witness the production process on site on 23 September 2020.

Events MDP – Mechanical Production Workshop

23. September 2020

Laura Marchal-Crespo joins Delft University of Technology

The Motor Learning and Neurorehabilitation Group Head and SNSF Professor Laura Marchal-Crespo will be starting a position as Associate Professor at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands on 15 September 2020. The ARTORG Center congratulates her on this important next career step, perfectly in line with her academic interests in human-robot interaction, human motor control, and rehabilitation robotics. Laura Marchal-Crespo will continue her research and student supervision with the ARTORG Center on a part-time basis.

People MLN – Motor Learning & Neurorehabilitation (former) Rehabilitation & Neural Engineering Robotics

10. September 2020

An Engineer at the Heart

Dominik Obrist, Head of the Cardiovascular Engineering Lab at ARTORG, has a strong affinity for computers and working with supercomputers has become his passion. His research focusses on simulating flows in the human body, particularly the cardiovascular system. Supercomputing resources at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) are essential to his research. He has been interviewed by Sabine Ulmer from CSCS on his career path, his motivation and his special role as engineer within a medical faculty.

Media People CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering Biomechanics

04. September 2020

PhD Defense Alberto Mantegazza

Congratulations to Alberto Mantegazza, newest PhD of the Cardiovascular Engineering Lab at ARTORG! He successfully defended his PhD thesis “Experimental investigations of red blood cell partitioning in artificial microvascular networks” on 21 August 2020, developing in vitro models of cerebral capillary networks to investigate the red blood cell fluid dynamics and partitioning at microvascular bifurcations.

People CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering Biomechanics In-Vitro & Organs-on-Chip

01. September 2020

PhD Defense Iwan Paolucci

The ARTORG Center congratulates Iwan Paolucci from the Image Guided Therapy group on his successful PhD thesis defense on 24 August 2020! The Bern BME Master Alumnus presented his thesis on “3D Ultrasound-based stereotactic image-guidance in hepatobiliary surgery”, conducted in collaboration with the Department of Visceral Surgery, Inselspital. He developed a new method for intraoperative ultrasound guidance to resect liver tumors, currently tested in a clinical trial.

People IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Surgical Technologies

26. August 2020

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