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Dielectric Elastomer Actuator to Assist Failing Hearts

The Integrated Actuators Laboratory, École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in collaboration with the ARTORG Cardiovascular Engineering group has developed and tested a dielectric‐elastomer actuator (DEA) for the aorta that can assist patients with heart failure and offer a potential alternative to heart transplantation. In vitro experiments using a pulsatile flow‐loop showed the DEA reduced the energy that the heart has to exert by 5 percent and is driven by the physiological pressure of the aorta itself.
Research CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering Biomechanics In-Vitro & Organs-on-Chip

03. February 2021

ARTORG Workshop thanks Fabio Spena

The polymechanic Fabio Spena ends his contract at the ARTORG workshop Mechanical Design and Production (MDP) end of January 2021 to start a career as professional mountain bike cross country racer. MDP Head Swiss certified master mechanic Urs Rohrer looks back on 4 years apprenticeship @MDP and 1,5 years of productive teamwork 50% with the polymechanic: “Fabio has been a great asset to our team with his dexterity and understanding of customer-oriented medical technology solutions.”
People MDP – Mechanical Production Workshop

29. January 2021

Fabian Balsiger receives best GCB Thesis Award

Fabian Balsiger investigates methods for quantitative MRI of neuromuscular diseases based on medical image computing and machine learning under the supervision of Mauricio Reyes, ARTORG MIA group. The PhD student at the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB) was presented with the Best Thesis Award 2020 at the GCB Symposium on 28 January 2021.
Grants & Awards MIA – Medical Image Analysis Artificial Intelligence

28. January 2021

Stergios Christodoulidis goes to CentraleSupélec

ARTORG Center Postdoctoral researcher Stergios Christodoulidis, previously part of the Artificial Intelligence in Health and Nutrition Lab, is starting a position as an Assistant Professor in the MICS Laboratory of CentraleSupélec in Paris. There, he will be a part of the teaching activities focusing on fundamentals of artificial intelligence and its application in medicine while also conducting translational research on cancer as part of the precision medicine center PRISM.
People AIHN – AI in Health and Nutrition Artificial Intelligence

10. January 2021

4D-Simulator: Breakthrough in Brain Surgery

4D-Simulator: Breakthrough in Brain Surgery

Aneurysm operations in the brain rank among the most delicate procedures in neurosurgery. A new training technology co-developed between Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and ARTORG Center of the University of Bern, will further improve patient safety during future procedures: a new 4D simulator enables the planning, testing and optimization of the procedure on an exact 4D model, which also emulates the blood, blood vessels and pulse.
Research IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Surgical Technologies

11. January 2021

SurgeonsLab wins Ypsomed Innovation Award

The spinoff of the ARTORG Image Guided Therapy lab has won the first prize of the Ypsomed Innovation Fund worth CHF 50´000. SurgeonsLab was built by an ARTORG MedTech scientist and a neurosurgeon of Inselspital, Bern University Hospital. The startup provides a realistic surgical environment for micro surgery training of high-precision endovascular interventions.
Grants & Awards IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Surgical Technologies

07. January 2021

Prix Retina for Thomas Kurmann

Thomas Kurmann, PhD student at the ARTORG Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging lab, has been awarded the Prix Retina 2020 for his research on Expert-level Automated Biomarker Identification in Optical Coherence Tomography Scans . Together with doctors from the Inselspital Department of Ophthalmology he had developed and tested a machine learning method capable of consistently identifying a wide range of common retinal biomarkers from OCT scans.
Grants & Awards AIMI – AI in Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence

30. December 2020

PhD thesis defense Ya Lu

Congratulations to Ya Lu, Artificial Intelligence in Health and Nutrition lab, for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Dietary assessment based on computer vision and machine learning“ on 15 December 2020! For her project, she and the team designed and developed several high-performance and user- friendly dietary assessment approaches based on advanced computer vision and machine learning algorithms, enabling automatic estimation of calories and macronutrients for targeting meals in distinct application scenarios.
People AIHN – AI in Health and Nutrition Artificial Intelligence

23. December 2020

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