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

2014

Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Angle influence and compensation for marker-less head tracking based on laser scanners, Fukuoka, Japan , 2014. pp. 62-63.
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Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, Marco A. F. Pimentel, David A. Clifton, and Achim Schweikard,
A Unified Approach For Respiratory Motion Prediction and Correlation with Multi-Task Gaussian Processes, Reims, France , 2014. pp. 1-6.
DOI:10.1109/MLSP.2014.6958895
File: MLSP.2014.6958895
Benjamin Wagner, Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Accuracy analysis for triangulation and tracking based on time-multiplexed structured light, Medical Physics , vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 082701, 2014.
DOI:10.1118/1.4890093
File: 1.4890093
Jannis Hagenah, Michael Scharfschwerdt, Christoph Metzner, Alexander Schlaefer, H. H. Sievers, and Achim Schweikard,
An approach for patient specific modeling of the aortic valve leaflets, GRIN Verlag, 2014.
Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
A comparison of different hardware design approaches for feature-supported optical tracking with respect to angular dependencies, 2014. pp. 204.
DOI:10.1118/1.4888259
File: 1.4888259
Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Apparatus and method for real-time tracking of tissue structures, 2014.
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Controlling motion prediction errors in radiotherapy with relevance vector machine, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , pp. in-press, 2014.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-014-1008-x
File: s11548-014-1008-x
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Exploiting probabilistic uncertainty measures for respiratory motion prediction, Fukuoka, Japan , 2014. pp. 59.
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Robert Dürichen, Xiao Fang, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Gaussian Process models for respiratory motion compensation, Fukuoka, Japan , 2014. pp. 286-287.
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Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Computational Multifactoriality in a Detailed Neural Network Model Resembling Centre-Surround Suppression Deficits in Schizophrenia, 2014.

2013

Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Skin thickness estimation for high precision optical head tracking during cranial radiation therapy a simulation study, Atlanta, GA, USA , 2013. pp. S669.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.06.1775
File: j.ijrobp.2013.06.1775
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Preliminary Study on Optical Feature Detection for Head Tracking in Radiation Therapy, Chania, Greece , 2013. pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.1109/BIBE.2013.6701632
File: BIBE.2013.6701632
Oliver Blanck, F. Bode, M. Gebhard, P. Hunold, Stephan A. Brandt, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, M. Grossherr, Dirk Rades, and Jürgen Dunst,
Radiosurgery to Create Lesions in the Pulmonary Vein Antrum: Preliminary Results in a Porcine Model and Possible Implications for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation, Calsbad, CA, USA: The Radiosurgery Society, 2013.
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, and Achim Schweikard,
Real time contact-free and non-invasive tracking of the human skull first light and initial validation, San Diego, CA , 2013. pp. 88561G-1 - 88561G-8.
DOI:10.1117/12.2024851
File: 12.2024851
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Respiratory Motion Compensation with Relevance Vector Machines, Mori, Kensaku and Sakuma, Ichiro and Sato, Yoshinobu and Barillot, Christian and Navab, Nassir, Eds. Nagoya, Japan: Springer, 2013. pp. 108-115.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-40763-5_14
File: 978-3-642-40763-5_14
Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Philipp Jauer, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Towards high-accuracy head-tracking for radiation therapy, Atlanta, GA, USA: Varian Research Partnership Symposium, 2013. pp. accepted.
Lars Richter, Peter Trillenberg, Achim Schweikard, and Alexander Schlaefer,
Stimulus intensity for hand held and robotic transcranial magnetic stimulation, Brain Stimulation , vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 315-321, 2013.
DOI:10.1016/j.brs.2012.06.002
File: j.brs.2012.06.002
Benjamin Wagner, Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Time-multiplexed structured light for head tracking, Treuer, Harald, Eds. Cologne, Germany , 2013. pp. 199-202.
Juliá L. Amengual, Josep Marco-Pallarés, Lars Richter, Stephen Oung, Achim Schweikard, Bahram Mohammadi, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, and Thomas F. Münte,
Tracking post-error adaptation in the motor system by transcranial magnetic stimulation, Neuroscience , vol. 250, pp. 342-351, 2013.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.07.024
File: j.neuroscience.2013.07.024
Ralf Bruder, Gerd Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Verfahren zum Auffinden der Position eines Schallkopfes, 2013.
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Optimized order estimation for autoregressive models to predict respiratory motion, Heidelberg, Germany , 2013. pp. accepted-for publication.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-013-0900-0
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Oliver Blanck, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Pilot-Phantomtest zur ultraschall-geführten robotergestützten Radiochirurgie, Treuer, Harald, Eds. Cologne, Germany , 2013. pp. 122-123.
Ralf Bruder, Svenja Ipsen, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
MO-D-144-02: Ultrasound Transducer Localization Using the CyberKnife's X-Ray System, Indianapolis, IN, USA: American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2013. pp. 405.
DOI:10.1118/1.4815272
File: 1.4815272
Lars Richter, Gunnar Neumann, Stephen Oung, Achim Schweikard, and Peter Trillenberg,
Optimal Coil Orientation for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, PLoS ONE , vol. 8, no. 4, pp. e60358, 2013.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0060358
File: journal.pone.0060358
Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Center-Surround Interactions in a Network Model of Layer 4C$\alpha$ of Primary Visual Cortex, 2013.