Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard

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Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 97

Email: achim.schweikard(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 31015200
Fax: +49 451 31015204

Short Biography

Achim Schweikard studied Mathematics at Hamburg University and University of Paris XI.
He obtained his PhD from Technical University of Berlin in 1989.
After that he worked as a research associate at the department of computer science at
Stanford university, within a joint appointment between Stanford's departments of
neurosurgery and computer science. In 1994 he joined Technical University of Munich
(TU Munich) as an Associate Professor. In 2002 he joined Luebeck University as a
Full Professor. He is the inventor of numerous technologies in medical robotics. His
invention of correlation-based tracking for cancer radiosurgery has started to become
the standard of care in cancer radiosurgery. A very large number of cancer patients
worldwide has now been treated with this new highly accurate method. His research areas
of interest include medical robotics and artificial intelligence methods.

Memberships

  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2011
  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2010
  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2009
  • Programm Committee: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie - Jahrestagung 2008
  • Programm Committee: AAPM Annual Meeting and Technical Exhibit in Houston, TX, July 27 - July 31, 2008
  • Program Committee: CARS 2012 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2009 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2008 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2007 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: CARS 2006 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Program Committee: MICCAI 2007 Medical Image Computation and Computer-Aided Intervention (2007)
  • Executive Committee: Computer-Aided Radiology (2005)
  • Chairman: Jahrestagung Computer und Roboter-unterstützte Chirurgie (2004)
  • President: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboter-unterstützte Chirurgie (2003-04)
  • Past-President: Dt. Ges. Computer und Roboter-unterstützte Chirurgie (2004-2005)
  • Coordinator: Schwerpunktprogramm 1124 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2006)
  • Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2005)
  • Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2004)
  • Program Committee: 2nd Workshop for Medical Robotics, Navigation und Visualisation (MRNV), March 2007
  • Program Committee: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2012
  • Program Committee: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2011
  • Member of Editorial Board: Computer Aided Surgery
  • Member of Editorial Board: Int. Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
  • Member of Editorial Board: Int. Journal of Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Member of Editorial Board: International Scholarly Research Network (ISRN) Robotics
  • Member of Editorial Board: Journal of Computational Medicine
  • Member of Editorial Board: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
  • Gradschool UNI Luebeck: Academic Director

2015

Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Enhanced Tissue Thickness Computation by Exploiting Local Neighborhoods, Barcelona, Spain , 2015.
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Efficient Estimation of Tissue Thicknesses using Sparse Approximation for Gaussian Processes, Milano, Italy: IEEE, 2015. pp. 7015-7018.
DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320007
File: EMBC.2015.7320007
Floris Ernst, Achim Schweikard, Patrick Stüber, Ralf Bruder, Benjamin Wagner, and Tobias Wissel,
Analysis of feature stability for laser-based determination of tissue thickness, San Francisco, CA , 2015. pp. 93130Q.
DOI:10.1117/12.2078722
File: 12.2078722
Svenja Ipsen, Brad Oborn, F. Bode, Gary Liney, P. Hunold, Dirk Rades, Achim Schweikard, Jürgen Dunst, Paul J. Keall, and Oliver Blanck,
Echtzeit-Zielverfolgung für nicht invasive MRT-gestützte Herzradiochirurgie, Hamburg, Germany , 2015.
Jirapong Manit, Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
A Study of Gaussian Noise Effects on Skin Thickness Measurement, Lübeck, Germany , 2015. pp. S190.
DOI:10.1515/bmt-2015-5008
File: bmt-2015-5008
Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
An Approach to Improve Accuracy of Optical Tracking Systems in Cranial Radiation Therapy, Cureus , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. e239, 2015.
Ralf Bruder, Christian Wilde, Peter Trillenberg, Sonja Binder, Lisa Marshall, and Achim Schweikard,
An Electronically Configurable Multi-Channel tACS Device, Duesseldorf, Germany , 2015.
Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Oliver Blanck, Jürgen Dunst, and Achim Schweikard,
4D Ultrasound Image Guidance for Cardiac Radiosurgery, Cookham, UK , 2015.
Dimitre Hristov, Renhui Gong, Jeffrey Schlosser, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Augmented reality system for robotic ultrasound guidance of external beam radiation therapy, Barcelona, Spain , 2015.
S. Lüdtke, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Patrick Stüber, Floris Ernst, Achim Schweikard, and Tobias Wissel,
Calibration of galvanometric laser scanners using statistical learning methods, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York; Lübeck, Germany: Springer, 2015. pp. 467-472.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-46224-9_80
File: 978-3-662-46224-9_80
Christian Wilde, Ralf Bruder, Sonja Binder, Lisa Marshall, and Achim Schweikard,
Closed-loop transcranial alternating current stimulation of slow oscillations, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 85-88, 2015.
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2015-0022
File: cdbme-2015-0022
Tobias Wissel, Benjamin Wagner, Patrick Stüber, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Data-driven Learning for Calibrating Galvanometric Laser Scanners, IEEE Sensors Journal , vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 5709-5717, 2015.
DOI:10.1109/jsen.2015.2447835
File: jsen.2015.2447835
Oliver Blanck, Melanie Grehn, S. Wurster, Guido Hildebrandt, Jürgen Dunst, F. A. Siebert, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Dosimetrischer Einfluss von residualen Trackingfehlern in der robotergestützten Radiochirurgie von Lebertumoren, Hamburg, Germany , 2015.

2014

Robert Dürichen, Marco A. F. Pimentel, Lei Clifton, Achim Schweikard, and David A. Clifton,
Multi-task Gaussian process models for biomedical applications, Valencia, Spain , 2014. pp. 492-495.
DOI:10.1109/BHI.2014.6864410
File: BHI.2014.6864410
Ivo Kuhlemann, Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
WE-G-BRF-09: Force- and Image-Adaptive Strategies for Robotised Placement of 4D Ultrasound Probes, 2014. pp. 523.
DOI:10.1118/1.4889502
File: 1.4889502
Rehman Ansari, Christian Myrtus, Redouane Aherrahrou, Jeanette Erdmann, Achim Schweikard, and Gereon Hüttmann,
Ultrahigh-resolution, high-speed spectral domain optical coherence phase microscopy, Optics Letters , vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 45-47, 2014. OSA.
DOI:10.1364/ol.39.000045
File: ol.39.000045
Oliver Blanck, Svenja Ipsen, Brad Oborn, Ralf Bruder, René Werner, F. Bode, P. Hunold, Gary Liney, Dirk Rades, Jürgen Dunst, Achim Schweikard, and Paul J. Keall,
Treatment planning for cardiac radiosurgery -- initial human simulations, Zürich, Switzerland , 2014.
Christian Wilde, Ralf Bruder, Sonja Binder, Lisa Marshall, and Achim Schweikard,
Towards Closed-Loop Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation, Munich, Germany , 2014.
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Robert Dürichen, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Tissue Thickness Estimation for High Precision Head-Tracking using a Galvanometric Laser Scanner - A Case Study, Chicago, IL: IEEE, 2014. pp. 3106-3109.
Katharina Merkel, Tobias Wissel, Achim Schweikard, and Robert Dürichen,
Respiratory motion prediction with surface EMG features, Fukuoka, Japan , 2014. pp. 290-291.
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Svenja Ipsen, Oliver Blanck, Brad Oborn, F. Bode, Gary Liney, P. Hunold, Dirk Rades, Achim Schweikard, and Paul J. Keall,
Radiotherapy beyond cancer: Target localization in real-time MRI and treatment planning for cardiac radiosurgery, Medical Physics , vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 120702-1-8, 2014.
DOI:10.1118/1.4901414
File: 1.4901414
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Multivariate respiratory motion prediction, Physics in Medicine and Biology , vol. 59, no. 20, pp. 6043, 2014.
Robert Dürichen, Marco A. F. Pimentel, Lei Clifton, Achim Schweikard, and David A. Clifton,
Multi-task Gaussian Processes for Multivariate Physiological Time-Series Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 314-322, 2014.
DOI:10.1109/TBME.2014.2351376
File: TBME.2014.2351376
Jan Graßhoff, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Kalman Filter based Head Tracking for Cranial Radiation Therapy with low-cost Range-Imaging Cameras, Deserno, Thomas M. and Handels, Heinz and Tolxdorff, Thomas and Meinzer, Hans-Peter and Ehrhardt, Jan, Eds. Aachen, Germany; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014. pp. 324-329.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-54111-7_60
File: 978-3-642-54111-7_60
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, and Achim Schweikard,
Measuring cranial soft tissue thickness with MRI or pressure-compensated tracked ultrasound, British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research , vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 937-948, 2014.