Awards of the Division Intelligent Medical Systems

Young Scientist Award was awarded to

Silvia Seidlitz, Jan Sellner, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Alessandro Motta, Berkin Özdemir, Beat Peter Müller-Stich, Felix Nickel and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts"

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 11th in Vancouver, Canada

Young Scientist Award was awarded to

Jan Sellner, Silvia Seidlitz, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Alessandro Motta, Berkin Özdemir, Beat Peter Müller-Stich, Felix Nickel and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts"

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 11th in Vancouver, Canada

Patrick Godau

was awarded the

2nd Place

Best Challenge Reviewer Award

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 8th to 12th 2023 in Vancouver, Canada

1st Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Antoine Jund, Finn-Henri Smidt, Patrick Godau and Lena Maier-Hein

in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 8th to 12th 2023 in Vancouver, Canada

Kris Dreher

was awarded the

Best PhD Talk Award

for the best talk at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held at Evangelische Tagungsstätte Löwenstein from 17th-19th July 2023 for the talk entitled "Unsupervised sim2real transfer of spectral images with conditional invertible neural networks".

3rd place was awarded to

Niklas Holzwarth

at the JBO/Neurophotonics 3-Minute Poster Competition

for

Clinical tattoo tomography

April, 2023

Silvia Seidlitz & Jan Sellner

were granted the

MICCAI Student-Author Registration (STAR) Award

for

Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometric domain shifts

March, 2023

Tim Rädsch

was awarded the

Anton Fink Wissenschaftspreis für Künstliche Intelligenz

for

'Beste Wissenschaftliche Arbeit' (Best scientific work)

February, 2023

Edgar Santos, Juan-Manuel Lopez-Navarro, Marco-Alejandro Suarez-Gutierrez, Pablo Albina Palmarola, Niklas Holzwarth, Lena Maier-Hein, Renán Sánchez-Porras, Johannes Woitzik

were awarded with the

'Bester Vortrag der Sektion' (Best talk of the topic area)

for

"Sichtbarmachung der vertikalen Ausbreitung von Spreading Depolarizations und unterschiedlicher regionaler Sauerstoffsättigungsmuster durch photoakustische Bildgebung in der Tiefe des gyrenzephalen Kortex"

from the 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie

Leipzig, October 27th-29st, 2022

1st Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Finn-Henri Smidt, Melanie Schellenberg, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Jan-Hinrich Nölke and Lena Maier-Hein

in the CholecTriplet2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Category: Presence Detection & Classification

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on September 18th-22nd 2022, Singapore

2nd Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Finn-Henri Smidt, Melanie Schellenberg, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Jan-Hinrich Nölke and Lena Maier-Hein

in the CholecTriplet2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Category: Spatial Localization

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on September 18th-22nd 2022, Singapore

1st Place awarded to

Amine ElYamlahi, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Lucas-Raphael Müller, Tim Adler, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Michael Baumgartner, Paul Jäger and Lena Maier-Hein

in the Polyp Detection in Endocv'22 Challenge

4th International Workshop on EndoscopicComputerVision in conjuction with 19th IEEE International Symposium Biomedical Imaging, IEEE ISBI 2022

Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi & Carol H. Sudre

won the 1st place in the

MICCAI Educational Challenge 2021

MICCAI September 30, 2021

Niklas Holzwarth, Melanie Schellenberg, Janek Gröhl, Kris Dreher, Jan-Hinrich Nölke,
Alexander Seitel, Minu D Tizabi, Beat P Müller-Stich, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded with the

Audience Award for Best Innovation: Runner-up

Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions
IPCAI 2021 June 22-23, 2021 Munich, Germany

Tobias Roß

was awarded with the

IPCAI 2021: Distinguished Reviewer Award

The 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2021 June 22-23, 2021 Munich, Germany

Annika Reinke

was awarded with the

Best PhD Talk Award

for reiceiving the best PhD Talk prize at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held virtually from 5-6 July 2021 for the talk entitled "Maximizing the impact of bimedical image analysis competitions".

DKFZ International PhD Program, PhD Retreat 2021

Annika Reinke, Matthias Eisenmann, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Carole H. Sudre, Tim Rädsch, Michaela Antonelli, Tal Arbel, Spyridon Bakas, M. Jorge Cardoso, Veronika Cheplygina, Keyvan Farahani, Ben Glocker, Doreen Heckmann-Nötzel, Fabian Isensee, Pierre Jannin, Charles Kahn, Jens Kleesiek, Tahsin Kurc, Michal Kozubek, Bennett A. Landman, Geert Litjens, Klaus Maier-Hein, Anne Lousise Martel, Bjoern Menze, Henning Müller, Jens Petersen, Maricio Reyes, Nicola Rieke, Bram Stieltjes, Ronals M. Summers, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Bram van Ginneken, Annette Kopp-Schneider, Paul Jäger, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded with the

Audience Award - Best short oral presentation

for the paper

Common limitations of performance metrics in biomedical image analysis

MIDL Lübeck 2021

Melanie Schellenberg

was awarded

for winning the

DATATHON FOR GRAND CHALLENGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Organized by the

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Berlin, November 5th-6th 2020

Patrick Scholz

was awarded

for winning the

DATATHON FOR GRAND CHALLENGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Organized by the

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Berlin, November 5th-6th 2020

Patrick Scholz

was awarded with the

MICCAI 2020 Best Challenge Reviewer Award

23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, 4-8 December 2020 Lima Peru (VIRTUAL)

Benjamin Mittmann

was awarded

with the

DMEA-Nachwuchspreis (3. Platz)

for his master thesis

Mulit-Modality Fiducial Marker For Image Registration in Navigated Medical Interventions

Berlin, July 20th, 2020

D. Gröner, A. Seitel, M. Eisenmann, B. Pekdemir, L. Aguilera Saiz, P. Sridharan, CT. Nguyen, C. Happel, A. Sabet, A. Franz, L. Maier-Hein and F. Grüwald

were awarded

with the

Thomas-Behr Förderpreis der MGN 2019

for the poster

"Fine Needle Aspiration in a Thyroid-like Ultrasound Phantom:
Can Electromagnetic Guidance Pave the Way to Multiangle Out-ofplane Approuches?"

Mittelrheinische Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin e. V.
Fulda, November 9th 2019

L. Ayala, S. Wirkert, J. Gröhl, M. Herrera, A. Hernandez-Aguilera, A. Vermuri, E. Santos and L. Maier-Hein

were awarded

with the

Young Investigator Award

during the 31st International Conference SMIT 2019

for the outstanding contribution:

Deep Learning Approach to live Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis

Heilbronn, October 11th 2019

Leonardo Ayala, Janek Groehl, Adrian Hernandez, Edgar Santos, Sebastian Wirkert, Anant Vermuri, Mildred Herrera and Lena Maier-Hein

received the

Certificate of Award for

Bench to Bedside: "Life Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis"

MICCAI Conference, Shenzhen, China, October 14th, 2019

Lena Maier-Hein

was elected a Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society at MICCAI

Shenzhen, China, October 14th, 2019

Kris Dreher and Niklas Holzwarth

won the first prize of the Science Slam

during the 31st SMIT Conference 2019 in Heilbronn, October 11th, 2019

 Lena Maier-Hein, PhD

is awarded the

Medical Image Analysis/MICCAI Best Paper Award

for the paper

"Dual-modality endoscopic probe for tissue surface shape renconstruction and hyperspectral imaging enabled by deep neural networks"​

Die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

verleiht

Professor Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein

Für herausragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Krebsforschung

den

Preis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Berlin, December 1st, 2017

Sebastian Wirkert, Anant S. Vemuri and Lena Maier-Hein

are awarded the

Best pitch at the Science Sparks Startups event

for the presentation on

"Rainbow Surgery"​

Heidelberg, September 19th, 2017

E. Stenau, T. Simpfendörfer, M. Azizian, W. P. Liu, K. K. Anderson, D. Bergman, O. Mohareri, J. M. Sorger, D. Teber, L. Maier-Hein

 are granted the

ISCAS Koh Young Young Investigator Best Paper Award

 for the presentation on

“In vivo robustness analyses of intraoperative registration with fluorecent markers."

Barcelona, Spain, June 20th-24th, 2017

A. C. Baranski, M. Schaefer, U. Bauder-Wuest, M. Roscher, J. Schmidt, E. Stenau, T. Simpfendoerfer, L. Maier-Hein, B. Hadaschik, U. Haberkorn, M. Eder, K. Kopka

 are granted the

2017 Henry N. Wagner, Jr, MD, Image of the Year Award

 for the abstract image used in

“Preclinical evaluation of dual-labeled PSMA-inhibitors for the diagnosis and therapy of prostata cancer."

A. Franz, A. Seitel, N. Bopp, C. Erbelding, S. Delorme, D. Cheray, F. Grünwald, H. Korkusuz, L. Maier-Hein

 are granted the

Bench to Bedside Award

 for the paper

“First clinical use of the EchoTrack guidance approach for radiofrequency ablation of thyroid gland nodules."

Barcelona, Spain, JUne 20th-21st, 2017

The dissertation with the title

Computer-Assisted Quantitative Mitral Valve Surgery

by

Dr. sc. hum. Sandy Engelhardt

has been awarded the

BVM-Award 2017 for the best PhD thesis

on the Workshop „Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin“ in Heidelberg, March 12th-14th, 2017.

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euro by the Chili GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany.

M. Ganz, D. Kondermann, J. Andrula, G. M. Knubben and L. Maier-Hein

 are granted the

KUKA IJCASRS Best Paper Award 2016 3rd Prize

 for the Paper

“Crowdsouring for error detection in cortical surface delineatiions."

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Lena Maier-Hein

is granted

the Dr. Emil Salzer-Prize 2016

form the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, December 13th, 2016

T. Simpfendörfer, A. Franz, C. Gasch, L. Maier-Hein, M. Hohenfellner and D. Teber

 are granted the

2. Presentationprize - experimentally from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie e. V.

 for the scientific work

“Sonographisch navigierte Nierenpunktion unter Verwendung eines mobilen elektromagnetischen Trackingsystems."

Esther Stenau

 is granted the

2016 PhD Poster Presentation Award

 for the Poster

“Robust augmented reality guidance with fluorescent markers in laparoscopic surgery”

Esther Wild, Dogu Teber, Daniel Schmid, Tobias Simpfendörfer, Michael Müller, Ann-Christin Baranski, Hannes Kenngott, Klaus Kopka und Lena Maier-Hein

 are granted the

Best Paper Award – Audience IPCAI 2016

 for the project

“Robust Augmented Reality Guidance with Fluorescent Markers in Laparoscopic Surgery”

Tobias Norajitra, Sandy Engelhardt, Thomas Held, Sameer Al-Maisary, Ivo Wolf, Raffaele de Simone, Hans-Peter Meinzer und Klaus Maier-Hein

are granted the

BVM Pirce 2014 for the best Scientific Work

for the presentation

“3D Statistische Formmodelle mit verteilter Erscheinungsmodellierung: Segmentierung per Abstimmung”

Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the Posterprice 

IV. Interdisziplinären Kongresses Junge Wissenschaft und Praxis

for the Poster

"Von Eminenz-basierter zu Evidenz-basierter Medizin".

Christoph Kolb, Matthias Eisenmann, Christian Weber and Jens Petersen

participated in the {Life Science} meets IT Hackathon (www.lifesciencemeetsit.eu) and won both the audience award and the award for "Best Business Case".

Together with their colleagues from the surgical department of the Heidelberg University Hospital they developed a system that greatly simplifies teaching of minimally invasive/laparoscopic surgery. The system allows experienced surgeons to virtually interact with the instruments of a learning surgeon and to guide them similar to classical surgery. The awards include participation in a Europe-wide startup contest and a comprehensive founding package.

Justin Iszatt

is granted the

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2015

for

the Bachelorthesis

"Multispektrale Bildgebung in der Medizin - Entwicklung eines multispektralen Laparoskops zur Schätzung des Sauerstoffgehalts in Geweben"

Eric Heim, Tobias Ross, Tobias Norajitra, Marco Nolden, Keno März, Daniel Kondermann, Stefanie Speidel, Klaus Maier-Hein and Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

Curac Best Paper Award 2015

for the paper

“Crowdgestützte Organsegmentierung: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen”

Keno März, Mophammedreza Hafezi, Tobias Weller, Marco Nolden, Nassim Fard, Ali Majlesara, Sascha Zelzer, Maria Maleshkova, Mykola Volovyk, Negin Gharabaghi, Martin Wagner, Golnaz Emami, Sandy Engelhardt, Andreas Fetzer, Hannes Kenngott, Nahid Rezai, Achim Rettinger, Rudi Studer, Arianeb Mehrabi und Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

Philips / IPCAI Audience Best Presentation Award

for the presentation of the paper

“Towards Knowledge-Based Liver Surgery - Holistic Information Processing for Surgical Decision Support”

A. Franz, T. Simpfendörfer, C. Garoussi, A. Majlesara, K. März, H. Meinzer, A. Mehrabi, D. Teber und L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

ISICAS KIKUCHI FRUGAL TECHNOLOGY AWARD

for the paper

“Echotrack for simultaneous EM tracking and US imaging: initial experience in ventilated swine cadaver” 

Silvio Kolb was decorated with the runner-up young academics award at the IT healthcare trade fair conhIT in Berlin 2015 for his bachelor thesis with the title "Surgical suture tracking for automatic prostheses selection to assist mitral valve reconstructions". The thesis was supervised by Prof. Ivo Wolf (University of Applied Sciences Mannheim) and Sandy Engelhardt (DKFZ) in close cooperation with Prof. Raffaele De Simone (Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg).

Adrian Winterstein

is granted the

Fachbereichspreis for the best Master Thesis 

titled,

"Ein ultraschallbasiertes Computerassistenzsystem mit integriertem elektromagnetischem Feldgenerator für die Leberchirurgie: Konzeption und Realisierung im Rahmen von MITK ”

Sebastian Wirkert, Neil T. Clancy, Danail Stoyanov, Shobhit Arya, George B. Hanna, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Peter Sauer, Daniel S. Elson and Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

for the paper

Endoscopic Sheffield Index for Unsuspervised In Vivo Spectral Band Selection

Sandy Engelhardt, Raffaele De Simone, Norbert Zimmermann, Sameer Al Maisary, Diana Nabers, Matthias Karck, Hans-Peter Meinzer und Ivo Wolf

are granted the

MICCAI-Augmented Environments Best Paper Award 2014

for the paper

Augmented Reality-Enhanced Endoscopic Images for Annuloplasty Ring Sizing

More information here.

Thomas Köhler, Sven Haase, Sebastian Bauer, Jakob Wasza, Thomas Kilgus, Lena Maier-Hein, Hubertus Feußner and Joachim Hornegger

is granted the

BVM Pirce 2014 for the best Scientific Work

for the presentation

Outlier Detection for Multi-Sensor Super-Resolution in Hybrid 3D Endoscopy.

Sandy Engelhardt, Bastian Graser, Raffaele De Simone, Nobert Zimmermann, Matthias Karck, Hans-Peter Meinzer, Diana Nabers and Ivo Wolf

is granted the

BVM Pirce 2014 for the best talk

for the Porject

Vermessung des Mitralapparats mit einem optisch getrackten Zeigeinstrument für die virtuelle Annuloplastie

Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price 2013

Medical Embedded System

is granted the

Prinz von Hohenzollern Inovationprice 2013

Keno März

is granted the

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2013

for

the Masterthesis

"Computer-Assistierte Punktionen unter Ultraschallführung mit einem mobilen elektromagnetischen Feldgenerator"

J. Rassweiler, M. Müller, M. Fangerau, J. Klein, A. Goezen, P. Pereira, H.-P. Meinzer and D. Teber

is granted the

EAU Hans Marberger Award 2013

for

the best European paper

iPad-Assisted Percutaneous Access to the Kidney Using Marker-Based Navigation: Initial Clinical Experience

Alfred Franz

is granted the

MFG Talente Preis 2012

for the project

A navigational system for minimally-invasive tumor therapy

The

German High Tech Champions AWARD

has been awarded to

Markus Fangerau and team

for the Business Case entitled

MITK pocket - Live the Mobile Dream

The Award is endowered with a price money of 10.000 €.

The Society for Medical Innovation and Technology

honoured

Lena Meier-Hein and team

with the

ORAL PRESENTATION SECOND PRIZE

for the outstanding contribution:

Markerless augmented Reality (AR) Guidance with optical Techniques for 3D Surface Reconstruction

Ingrid zu Solms Science Award 2009/2010

in the amount of 3,000 €uro has been awarded to

Mrs. Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
Division Medical and Biological Informatics

The German Cancer Research Center

has on the basis of the decision of the Scientific Council awarded the

Waltraud Lewenz Price 2008

in the amount of 7,500 €uro to

Mrs. Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
Division Medical and Biological Informatics

Berlin, April 8, 2008

The BVM Award 2008 for best presentation

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein

for the paper

In vivo Targeting of Liver Lesions with a Navigation System based on Fiducial Needles.

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euros.

Heidelberg, Dezember 1st, 2007

The Best Graduate Award of the Research Training Group 1126 of the year 2007

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euros.

Munich, Germany, March 27, 2007:

The BVM Award 2007 for best poster

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein, Fank Pianka, Sascha Müller, Alexander Seitel,Urte Rietdorf, Ivo Wolf, Bruno Schmied, Hans-Peter Meinzer

for the contribution

Atembewebungssimulator für die in-vitro Evaluation von
Weichteilgewebe-Navigationssystemen in der Leber

The prize is sponsored with 250 Euros.

San Diego, USA, 22. Februar 2007:

Lena Maier-Hein

has been nominated for the

SPIE The Michael B Merickel Best Student Paper Award

for the contribution

In-vitro evaluation of a novel needle-based soft tissue navigationsystem with a respiratory liver motion simulator