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

2009

Floris Ernst, Volker Martens, Stefan Schlichting, Armin Beširević, Markus Kleemann, Christoph Koch, Dirk Petersen, and Achim Schweikard,
Correlating Chest Surface Motion to Motion of the Liver using ε-SVR -- a Porcine Study, Yang, Guang-Zhong and Hawkes, David J. and Rueckert, Daniel and Noble, Alison and Taylor, C., Eds. London, United Kingdom; London: Springer, 2009. pp. 356-364.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-04271-3_44
File: 978-3-642-04271-3_44
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
A Survey of Algorithms for Respiratory Motion Prediction in Robotic Radiosurgery, Fischer, Stefan and Maehle, Erik, Eds. Lübeck, Germany: Bonner Köllen, 2009. pp. 1035-1043.
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Ralf Bruder, T. Cai, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
3D ultrasound-guided motion compensation for intravascular radiation therapy, Berlin, Germany , 2009. pp. 25-26.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0309-y
File: s11548-009-0309-y
Fernando Gasca, Lukas Ramrath, Gereon Hüttmann, and Achim Schweikard,
Automated segmentation of tissue structures in optical coherence tomography data, Journal of Biomedical Optics , vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 034046-1-21, 2009.
Markus Finke, Tobias Meyer, Maik Stille, and Achim Schweikard,
Automatic Positioning of a Surgical Microscope, Fischer, Stefan and Maehle, Erik, Eds. Lübeck, Germany: Bonner Köllen, 2009. pp. 998-1009.
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Lars Richter, Lars Matthäus, Peter Trillenberg, Claudia Diekmann, Dirk Rasche, and Achim Schweikard,
Behandlung von chronischem Tinnitus mit roboterunterstützter TMS, Lübeck: GI, 2009. pp. 86;1018-1027.
Lukas Ramrath, Simon Vogt, Winnie Jensen, Ulrich G. Hofmann, and Achim Schweikard,
Computer and robot-assisted stereotaxy for high-precision small animal brain exploration, Biological Psychiatry , vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 8-13, 2009.
DOI:10.1515/BMT.2009.002
File: BMT.2009.002

2008

Markus Finke, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Kinematics of a Robotized Operation Microscope, Orlanda, Florida, USA , 2008. pp. 1638-1643.
Ralf Bruder, Matteo C. M. Bonsanto, T. Hackbarth, F. Hansen, and Achim Schweikard,
Zeitsparende Navigationslösung zum Platzieren von Pedikelschrauben, Ulm , 2008.
Christoph Bodensteiner, and Achim Schweikard,
Vascular Tree Reconstruction with Discrete Tomography - Parallel 3D-reconstruction Algorithms for Inconsistent Projection Data based on Linear Optimization, 2008.
Lukas Ramrath, G. Moreno, Heike Mueller, Tim Bonin, Gereon Hüttmann, and Achim Schweikard,
Towards Multi-Directional OCT for Speckle Noise Reduction, Metaxas, Dimitris and Axel, Leon and Fichtinger, Gabor and Székely, Gábor, Eds. New York, NY, USA , 2008. pp. 815-823.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-85988-8
File: 978-3-540-85988-8
Lukas Ramrath, Matthias Pohl, S. Loeffler, K. Mankodiya, Y. Xie, Ulrich G. Hofmann, and Achim Schweikard,
Single fibre Optical Coherence Tomography for Brain Imaging - A preliminary in vitro study, Bartz, Dirk and Bohn, S. and Hoffmann, J., Eds. Leipzig, Deutschland; Leipzig, Germany , 2008. pp. 179-180.
Lukas Ramrath, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Matteo C. M. Bonsanto, Volker Tronnier, S. Loeffler, Andreas Moser, and Achim Schweikard,
Robotic Framework for Small Animal Stereotaxy, Geneva , 2008.
S. Loeffler, Lukas Ramrath, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Achim Schweikard, and Andreas Moser,
Robot Assisted Stereotaxic Targeting for STN-DBS in the Rat Brain., Magdeburg , 2008.
DOI:10.1055/s-2008-1072910
File: s-2008-1072910
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Prediction of respiratory motion using a modified Recursive Least Squares algorithm, Bartz, Dirk and Bohn, S. and Hoffmann, J., Eds. Leipzig, Germany , 2008. pp. 157-160.
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Predicting Respiratory Motion Signals for Image-Guided Radiotherapy using Multi-step Linear Methods (MULIN), International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 3, no. 1--2, pp. 85-90, 2008.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-008-0211-z
File: s11548-008-0211-z
Markus Finke, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Intraoperative Fernsteuerung eines Operationsmikroskopes, Bartz, Dirk and Bohn, S. and Hoffmann, J., Eds. Leipzig, Deutschland; Leipzig, Germany , 2008. pp. 31-34.
Sven Kantelhardt, Tommaso Fadini, K. Kallenberg, Markus Finke, Lars Matthäus, Achim Schweikard, V. Rohde, and Alf Giese,
Comparison of functional brain mapping by computer controled roboterized transcranial-magnet-stimulation and functional MRI, Würzburg , 2008.
Markus Finke, Tommaso Fadini, Sven Kantelhardt, Alf Giese, Lars Matthäus, and Achim Schweikard,
Brain-Mapping using robotized TMS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada , 2008. pp. 3929-3932.
Lars Matthäus, Peter Trillenberg, Tommaso Fadini, Markus Finke, and Achim Schweikard,
Brain mapping with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation using a refined Correlation Ratio and Kendall's tau, Statistics in Medicine , vol. 27, no. 25, pp. 5252-5270, 2008.
DOI:10.1002/sim.3353
File: sim.3353
Alexander Schlaefer, Jakub Gill, and Achim Schweikard,
A simulation and training environment for robotic radiosurgery, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 3, no. 3-4, pp. 267-274, 2008. Springer-Verlag.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-008-0159-z
File: s11548-008-0159-z
Lukas Ramrath, Ulrich G. Hofmann, and Achim Schweikard,
A Robotic Assistant for Stereotactic Neurosurgery on Small Animals, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 295-303, 2008.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.218
File: rcs.218
Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, Sonja Dieterich, and Achim Schweikard,
A Fast Lane Approach to LMS Prediction of Respiratory Motion Signals, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control , vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 291-299, 2008.
DOI:10.1016/j.bspc.2008.06.001
File: j.bspc.2008.06.001
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
A family of linear algorithms for the prediction of respiratory motion in image-guided radiotherapy, Barcelona, Spain , 2008. pp. 31-32.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-008-0169-x
File: s11548-008-0169-x
Markus Finke, and Achim Schweikard,
3D Simulation of a motorized operation microscope, Venice, Italy: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. pp. 258-369.