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

1996

Michael Roth, Ch. Brack, Achim Schweikard, H. Götte, J. Moctezuma, and F. Gossé,
A New Less Invasive Approach to Knee Surgery using a Vision-Guided Manipulator, ASME Press, 1996. pp. 731-738.

1995

Achim Schweikard, Mohan Bodduluri, Rhea Tombropoulos, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Planning, Calibration and Collision Avoidance for Image-Guided Radiosurgery, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1995.
Achim Schweikard,
Treatment Planning Apparatus and Method for Radiosurgery and Radiation Therapy, 1995.
Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Robotic Radiosurgery with Beams of Adaptable Shapes, Ayache, Nicholas, Eds. Nice, France: Springer, 1995. pp. 138-149.
John R. Adler Jr., Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, and J.-C. Latombe,
Modelling and Planning for Sensor-based Intelligent Robot Systems, Bunke, H. and Kanade, Takeo and Noltemeier, H., Eds. World Scientific Publishers Co., 1995, pp. 460-470.
DOI:10.1142/9789812797773\_0028
File: 9789812797773\_0028
Achim Schweikard, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Bloodless Robotic Surgery, St. Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 123-129.
Achim Schweikard, and R. H. Wilson,
Assembly sequences for polyhedra, Algorithmica , vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 539-552, 1995.
DOI:10.1007/BF01189068
File: BF01189068
John R. Adler Jr., and Achim Schweikard,
Future health: computers and medicine in the twenty-first century., .... New York, NY, USA: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1995.
ISBN:0-312-12602-6

1994

John R. Adler Jr., Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, and J.-C. Latombe,
Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh , 1994. pp. 291-297.
Achim Schweikard, and John R. Adler Jr.,
New Collimation Methods for Radiosurgery, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh , 1994. pp. 298-305.
Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, John R. Adler Jr., and J.-C. Latombe,
Planning for Image-Guided Radiosurgery, Menlo Park: AAAI Press, 1994, pp. 96-101.
Achim Schweikard, Mohan Bodduluri, Rhea Tombropoulos, and John R. Adler Jr.,
Planning, calibration and collision-avoidance for image-guided radiosurgery, München , 1994. pp. 854-861.
DOI:10.1109/iros.1994.407492
File: iros.1994.407492
J. Moctezuma, F. Gossé, J. Bernasch, G. Lohmann, and Achim Schweikard,
Robotic Femur Osteotomy, 1994. pp. 870-877.
J. Moctezuma, J. Bernasch, G. Lohmann, Achim Schweikard, and F. Gossé,
Robotic surgery and planning for corrective femur osteotomy, 1994. pp. 870-877vol.2.
DOI:10.1109/iros.1994.407490
File: iros.1994.407490
Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, L. Kavraki, John R. Adler Jr., and J.-C. Latombe,
Treatment planning for a radiosurgical system with general kinematics, San Diego, CA, USA , 1994. pp. 1720-1727.
DOI:10.1109/robot.1994.351344
File: robot.1994.351344

1993

Achim Schweikard, John R. Adler Jr., and J.-C. Latombe,
Motion planning in stereotaxic radiosurgery, 1993. pp. 909-916.
DOI:10.1109/robot.1993.292092
File: robot.1993.292092
J. Moctezuma, F. Gossé, J. Bernasch, G. Lohmann, and Achim Schweikard,
Planungsverfahren und kamerageführte Handhabungsgeräte für Hüftgelenkosteotomien, Langen , 1993.

1992

Achim Schweikard, John R. Adler Jr., and J.-C. Latombe,
Wegbestimmung in der Stereotaktischen Bestrahlungchirurgie, Karlsruhe , 1992. pp. 326-336.
Achim Schweikard,
A simple path search strategy based on calculation of free sections of motions, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence , vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 1992.
Achim Schweikard,
Real zero isolation for trigonometric polynomials, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software , vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 350-359, 1992.
DOI:10.1145/131766.131775
File: 131766.131775
R. H. Wilson, and Achim Schweikard,
Assembling polyhedra with single translations, 1992. pp. 2392-2397vol.3.
DOI:10.1109/robot.1992.220106
File: robot.1992.220106

1991

Achim Schweikard,
Polynomial time collision detection for manipulator paths specified by joint motions, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation , vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 865-870, 1991.
DOI:10.1109/70.105397
File: 70.105397
Achim Schweikard,
Trigonometric polynomials with multiple roots, Information Processing Letters , vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 231-236, 1991.

1990

Achim Schweikard,
"A Hyperplane Strategy for Multi-Dimensional Motion Planning" 1990.
Achim Schweikard,
Ein iteratives Verfahren zur Bestimmung überschneidungsfreier Teilstücke von Bewegungen, Robotersysteme , vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 245-252, 1990.