Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard

Photo of Achim Schweikard


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

2010

Sven Kantelhardt, Tommaso Fadini, Markus Finke, K. Kallenberg, J. Siemerkus, V. Bockermann, Lars Matthäus, Walter Paulus, Achim Schweikard, V. Rohde, and Alf Giese,
Robot-assisted image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation for somatotopic mapping of the motor cortex: a clinical pilot study, Acta Neurochirurgica , vol. 152, no. 2, pp. 333-343, 2010.
DOI:10.1007/s00701-009-0565-1
File: s00701-009-0565-1
Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Processing of Respiratory Motion Traces for Motion-Compensated Radiotherapy, Medical Physics , vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 282-294, 2010.
DOI:10.1118/1.3271684
File: 1.3271684
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Melanie Pohl, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Prediction of Cardiac Motion, Geneva, Switzerland , 2010. pp. 273-274.
File:
Markus Finke, and Achim Schweikard,
Motorization of a Surgical Microscope for intra-operative navigation and intuitive control, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 269-280, 2010.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.314
File: rcs.314
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Improving the Quality of Biomedical Signal Tracking using Prediction Algorithms, Coventry, United Kingdom; Coventry, UK , 2010. pp. 301-305.
DOI:10.1049/ic.2010.0298
ISBN:978-184600-0386
File: ic.2010.0298
Lars Richter, Alexander Schlaefer, Peter Trillenberg, and Achim Schweikard,
Kraft-Momenten-Steuerung für die robotergestützte Transkranielle Magnetstimulation (TMS), 2010.
Floris Ernst, Christoph Koch, and Achim Schweikard,
A Novel Recording Tool for Education and Quality Assurance in Digital Angiography, Chicago, IL/USA , 2010.
Lars Richter, Lars Matthäus, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Fast robotic compensation of spontaneous head motion during Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Coventry, United Kingdom; Coventry, UK , 2010. pp. 872-877.
ISBN:978-184600-0386
Max Heinig, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
3D localization of ferromagnetic probes for small animal neurosurgery, 2010. pp. 2321-2324.
DOI:10.1109/iembs.2010.5627435
ISBN:978-1-4244-4123-5
File: iembs.2010.5627435
Max Heinig, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
3D Localization of a Thin Steel Rod Using Magnetic Field Sensors: Feasibility and Preliminary Results, 2010. pp. 1-4.
DOI:10.1109/icbbe.2010.5515423
File: icbbe.2010.5515423
Markus Finke, Birgit Stender, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
An experimental comparison of control devices for automatic movements of a surgical microscope, Geneva, Switzerland , 2010. pp. 311-312.
Markus Finke, and Achim Schweikard,
Automatische Untersuchung großer Gewebeflächen mittels Optischer Kohärenztomographie, Düsseldorf, Deutschland , 2010. pp. 221-224.
Lars Richter, Floris Ernst, Volker Martens, Lars Matthäus, and Achim Schweikard,
Client/Server Framework for robot control in medical assistance systems, Geneva, Switzerland , 2010. pp. 306-307.
File:
Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Context Integration in Visual Processing: A Computational Model of Center-Surround Suppression in the Visual System, 2010. pp. P100.

2009

Christoph Bodensteiner, Christina Darolti, and Achim Schweikard,
Vascular Tree Reconstruction with Discrete Tomography - Intensity Based Camera Correction for 3D-Reconstruction, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 189-202, 2009.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0283-4
File: s11548-009-0283-4
Tommaso Fadini, Lars Matthäus, Holger Rothkegel, Martin Sommer, Frithjof Tergau, Achim Schweikard, Walter Paulus, and Michael A. Nitsche,
H-coil: Induced electric field properties and input/output curves on healthy volunteers, comparison with a standard figure-of-eight coil, Clinical Neurophysiology , vol. 120, no. 6, pp. 1174-1182, 2009.
DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2009.02.176
File: j.clinph.2009.02.176
Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
TH-C-304A-07: Real-Time Tracking of the Pulmonary Veins in 3D Ultrasound of the Beating Heart, Anaheim, CA, USA , 2009. pp. 2804.
DOI:10.1118/1.3182643
File: 1.3182643
Max Heinig, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Super-resolution in Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT), Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress, Munich, Germany , 2009.
Christoph Bodensteiner, Christina Darolti, and Achim Schweikard,
Super-Resolution für mobile C-Bogen-Systeme, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2009.
Sven Kantelhardt, Tommaso Fadini, Markus Finke, K. Kallenberg, V. Bockermann, Lars Matthäus, J. Siemerkus, Walter Paulus, Achim Schweikard, V. Rohde, and Alf Giese,
Robotized image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation, a novel technique for functional brain-mapping, Clinical Neurophysiology , vol. 120, no. 1, pp. e84, 2009.
DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.203
File: j.clinph.2008.07.203
Susanne Löffler, Lukas Ramrath, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Achim Schweikard, and Andreas Moser,
Robot Assisted Stereotaxic Targeting for STN-DBS in the Rat Brain, Clinical Neurophysiology , vol. 120, no. 1, pp. e49, 2009.
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Predicting Respiratory Motion Signals using Accurate Online Support Vector Regression (SVRpred), Berlin, Germany , 2009. pp. 255-256.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0340-z
File: s11548-009-0340-z
Christoph Bodensteiner, Christina Darolti, and Achim Schweikard,
A Fast Intensity Based Non-rigid 2D-3D-Registration Using Statistical Regularization with Application in Radiosurgery, San Jose , 2009.
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Forecasting Respiratory Motion with Accurate Online Support Vector Regression (SVRpred), International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 439-447, 2009.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0355-5
File: s11548-009-0355-5
Christoph Bodensteiner, Christina Darolti, and Achim Schweikard,
Achieving super-resolution X-ray imaging with mobile C-arm devices, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 243-256, 2009.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.255
File: rcs.255