Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard

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Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 94

Email: achim.schweikard(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 31015232
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

2025

Jingyang Xie, Alicia S. Bicu, Melanie Grehn, Mustafa Kuru, Adrian Zaman, Xinyu Lu, Christian Janorschke, Jens Fleckenstein, Marcus Both, Stephan Hohmann, Egor Borzov, Roland R. Tilz, Dirk Rades, Frank A. Giordano, Daniel Buergy, Boris Rudic, David Duncker, Roland Merten, Tomer Charas, Mahmoud Suleiman, Evgeny Lian, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Judit Boda-Heggemann, and Lena Kaestner,
ECG-gated cardiac CT based patient- and segment-specific cardiac motion estimation for stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation in the RAVENTA framework, Radiotherapy and Oncology , vol. 206, pp. S3209-S3212, Apr. 2025.
DOI:10.1016/S0167-8140(25)04296-3
Sorin S. Popescu, Christian Janorschke, Jingyang Xie, Xinyu Lu, Zeynep Demirtakan, Tugba Özalp, Engin Yaman, Christoph Marquetand, Oliver Blanck, Hannes Alessandrini, Achim Schweikard, and Roland R. Tilz,
Feasibility of Cardiac 3D Ultrasound and Computed Tomography Fusion Using Landmarks and Iterative Closest Point Algorithm - First Results of the MATRIX-VT Study, Heart Rhythm , vol. 22, pp. S588, Apr. 2025.
DOI:10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.03.1455
Melanie Grehn, Adrian Zaman, Jingyang Xie, Marc Delaperriere, Achim Schweikard, Frank-Andre Siebert, Juergen Dunst, Roland R. Tilz, Evgeny Lian, and Oliver Blanck,
Novel customized dynamic cardiac phantom for complete end-to-end-testing of STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation (STAR), Radiotherapy and Oncology , vol. 206, pp. S3613-S3615, Apr. 2025.
DOI:10.1016/S0167-8140(25)00433-5
Roland R. Tilz, Adrian Zaman, David Krug, Melanie Grehn, Judit Boda-Heggemann, Boris Rudic, Felix Mehrhof, Leif-Hendrik Boldt, Stephan Hohmann, Roland Merten, Dirk Rades, Julia Vogler, Stefanie Corradini, Moritz F. Sinner, Olaf Wittenstein, Daniel Buergy, Felix Hohendanner, Frank-Andre Siebert, Achim Schweikard, Christian Veltmann, David Duncker, Gerhard Hindricks, Jürgen Dunst, Derk Frank, Evgeny Lian, and Oliver Blanck,
Radiosurgery for ventricular tachycardia (RAVENTA) - subgroup analysis for a German multicenter multiplatform feasibility trial, Heart Rhythm , vol. 22, no. 4, pp. S486-S487, Apr. 2025. Elsevier.
DOI:10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.03.1235
Jingyang Xie, Alicia S. Bicu, Melanie Grehn, Mustafa Kuru, Adrian Zaman, Xinyu Lu, Christian Janorschke, Luuk H. G. van der Pol, Martin F. Fast, Jens Fleckenstein, Marcus Both, Stephan Hohmann, Egor Borzov, Peter Winkler, Roland R. Tilz, Dirk Rades, Frank A. Giordano, Daniel Buergy, Boris Rudic, David Duncker, Roland Merten, Tomer Charas, Mahmoud Suleiman, Thomas Brunner, Daniel Scherr, Evgeny Lian, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Judit Boda-Heggemann, and Lena Kaestner,
Electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography-based patient- and segment-specific cardiac motion estimation method in stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation for ventricular tachycardia, Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology , vol. 33, pp. 100700, Jan. 2025. Elsevier.
DOI:10.1016/j.phro.2025.100700
Rachel M.A. ter Bekke, Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Melanie Grehn, Karolien Verhoeven, Paul G.A. Volders, Casper Mihl, Yeşim Kaya, Martin Manninger, Daniel Scherr, Stefanie Corradini, Achim Schweikard, Robert Rademaker, Wiert F. Hoeksema, Luis Schiappacasse, Lukáš Knybel, Etienne Pruvot, Pieter G. Postema, Petr Peichl, Jakub Cvek, Katja Zeppenfeld, Oliver Blanck, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
Transfer of arrhythmia substrate targets from the cardiac electroanatomical and imaging modalities to the planning computed tomography scan for stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation for refractory ventricular tachycardia - a state-of-the-art review on software developments on behalf of the STOPSTORM.eu consortium, Radiotherapy and Oncology , vol. 210, pp. 111004, 2025. Elsevier.
DOI:10.1016/j.radonc.2025.111004

2024

Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Miriam Eckl, Melanie Grehn, Christian Janorschke, Roland Merten, Boris Rudic, Daniel Buergy, Evgeny Lian, David Krug, Felix Mehrhof, Leif-Hendrik Boldt, Stefanie Corradini, Hannah Fanslau, Lena Kaestner, Adrian Zaman, Frank A. Giordano, David Duncker, Juergen Dunst, Roland Tilz, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
Semi-automated reproducible target transfer for cardiac radioablation - A multi-center cross-validation study within the RAVENTA trial, Radiotherapy and Oncology , vol. 200, pp. 110499, Nov. 2024.
DOI:10.1016/j.radonc.2024.110499
Jingyang Xie, Boris Rudic, Adrian Zaman, Mustafa Kuru, Xinyu Lu, Christian Janorschke, Melanie Grehn, Bettina Sieburg, Jens Fleckenstein, Frank Anton Giordano, Stephan Hohmann, Evgeny Lian, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Judit Boda-Heggemann, and Lena Kaestner,
A patient-specific cardiac motion estimation method for STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation (STAR) based on ECG-gated cardiac 4D CT, European Journal of Medical Physics , vol. 125, pp. S305-S306, Sep. 2024.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.103899
Jingyang Xie, Boris Rudic, Mustafa Kuru, Xinyu Lu, Christian Janorschke, Melanie Grehn, Bettina Sieburg, Jens Fleckenstein, Frank Anton Giordano, Stephan Hohmann, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Judit Boda-Heggemann, and Lena Kaestner,
A novel cardiac motion estimation method for stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR) based on ECG-gated cardiac 4D CT, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie , vol. 200, pp. S8-S9, May 2024.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00066-024-02233-7
Lena Kaestner, Jingyang Xie, Hannah Fanslau, Kerstin Siebenlist, Jens Fleckenstein, Miriam Eckl, Daniel Buergy, Mustafa Kuru, Juergen Kuschyk, Bettina Sieburg, Daniel Duerschmied, David Krug, Frank Anton Giordano, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Boris Rudic, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
Bestrahlungsplanung für kardiale stereotaktische Radioablation (STAR) bei Patienten mit subkutanen implantierbaren Cardioverter Defibrillatoren (S-ICD), Strahlentherapie und Onkologie , vol. 200, pp. 158, May 2024.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00066-024-02233-7
Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Miriam Eckl, Melanie Grehn, Nizar Karfoul, Christian Janorschke, Merten Roland, Boris Rudic, Daniel Buergy, Evgeny Lian, David Krug, Felix Mehrhof, Leif-Hendrik Boldt, Stefanie Corradini, Hannah Fanslau, Lena Kaestner, Adrian Zaman, Frank A. Giordano, David Duncker, Juergen Dunst, Roland R. Tilz, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
321: Semi-automated reproducible target transfer for STAR – Cross-validation within the RAVENTA trial, May2024. pp. S2879-S2880.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8140(24)00976-9
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Lena Kaestner, Jingyang Xie, Hannah Fanslau, Kerstin Siebenlist, Miriam Eckl, Jens Fleckenstein, Daniel Buergy, Mustafa Kuru, Juergen Kuschyk, Daniel Duerschmied, David Krug, Frank Anton Giordano, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, Judit Boda-Heggemann, and Boris Rudic,
Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation for ventricular tachycardia in S-ICD patients: mission impossible?, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kardiologie , 2024.

2023

Lena Kaestner, Judit Boda-Heggemann, Hanna Fanslau, Jingyang Xie, Achim Schweikard, Frank A. Giordano, Oliver Blanck, and Boris Rudic,
Electroanatomical mapping after cardiac radioablation for treatment of incessant electrical storm: a case report within the RAVENTA trial, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie , vol. 199, pp. 1018–1024, Sep. 2023.
DOI:10.1007/s00066-023-02136-z
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Christian Janorschke, Jingyang Xie, Xinyu Lu, Melanie Grehn, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
Landmark-Based Generation of Common Ultrasound Views and 17-Segment Model from Cardiac Computed Tomography, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 61-64, Sep. 2023.
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2023-1016
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Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Melanie Grehn, Nizar Karfoul, Christian Janorschke, Felix Mehrhof, Roland Merten, Boris Rudic, David Krug, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Evgeny Lian, Daniel Buergy, Hanna Fanslau, Lena Kaestner, Frank A. Giordano, Adrian Zaman, David Duncker, Jürgen Dunst, Roland Tilz, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
Zielübertragung vom elektroanatomischen Mapping auf das Planungs-CT für die kardiale stereotaktische Strahlentherapie - Kreuzvalidierung zweier Software-Ansätze für die RAVENTA-Studie, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie , vol. 199, pp. 119, Jun. 2023.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00066-023-02083-9
Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Melanie Grehn, Nizar Karfoul, Felix Mehrhof, Roland Merten, Boris Rudic, David Krug, Evgeny Lian, David Duncker, Jürgen Dunst, Roland Tilz, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
Reproducible target transfer from electroanatomic mapping to radiotherapy planning systems for cardiac radioablation - cross-validation for the RAVENTA trial, EP Europace , vol. 25, pp. 491-492, May 2023.
DOI:10.1093/europace/euad122.303
File: euad122.303
David Krug, Oliver Blanck, Jürgen Dunst, Adrian Zaman, Roland Tilz, Melanie Grehn, Dirk Rades, Markus Both, Annette Rogge, Frank-Andre Siebert, Judit Boda-Heggemann, Boris Rudic, Felix Mehrhof, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Stephan Hohmann, Roland Merten, Daniel Buergy, Jens Fleckenstein, Anne Kluge, Denise Olbrich, Inke Koenig, Achim Schweikard, R. Vonthein, and Hendrik Bonnemeier,
Interim analysis of a multi-center multi-platform feasibility trial, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie , 2023.
Michael Mayinger, Felix Mehrhof, David Krug, Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Stefanie Ehrbar, Boldizsar Kovacs, Roland Merten, Melanie Grehn, Adrian Zaman, Jens Fleckenstein, Lena Kaestner, Daniel Buergy, Boris Rudic, Anne Kluge, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Jürgen Dunst, Hendrik Bonnemeier, Ardan M. Saguner, Nicolaus Andratschke, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
Quality Assurance Process for the Fusion of Electroanatomical Mapping and Radiotherapy Planning Imaging Data in Cardiac Radioablation, Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology , vol. 25, pp. 100406, Jan. 2023.
DOI:10.1016/j.phro.2022.12.003
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Stephan Hohmann, Jingyang Xie, Melanie Grehn, Nizar Karfoul, Christian Janorschke, Felix Mehrhof, Roland Merten, Boris Rudic, David Krug, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Evgeny Lian, Daniel Buergy, Hanna Fanslau, Lena Kaestner, Adrian Zaman, David Duncker, Jürgen Dunst, Roland Tilz, Achim Schweikard, Oliver Blanck, and Judit Boda-Heggemann,
Zielübertragung vom elektroanatomischen Mapping auf Strahlentherapie-Planungssysteme für die kardiale Radioablation - Kreuzvalidierung zweier Ansätze für die RAVENTA-Studie, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kardiologie , 2023.

2022

Anne K. Kluge, Stefanie Ehrbar, Melanie Grehn, Jens Fleckenstein, Wolfgang W. Baus, Frank-Andre Siebert, Achim Schweikard, Nicolaus Andratschke, Michael C. Mayinger, Daniel Buergy, Eren Celik, David Krug, Boldizsar Kovacs, Ardan M. Saguner, Boris Rudic, Paula Bergengruen, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Annina Stauber, Adrian Zaman, Hendrik Bonnemeier, Jürgen Dunst, Volker Budach, Oliver Blanck, and Felix Mehrhof,
CLINICAL INVESTIGATION Treatment Planning for Cardiac Radioablation: Multicenter Multiplatform Benchmarking for the RAdiosurgery for VENtricular TAchycardia (RAVENTA) Trial, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics , 2022.
Stefanie Ehrbar, Melanie Grehn, Jens Fleckenstein, Wolfgang W. Baus, Frank-Andre Siebert, Achim Schweikard, Michael C. Mayinger, N. Andratschke, Judit Boda-Heggemann, Daniel Buergy, Eren Celik, David Krug, Ardan M. Saguner, Boris Rudic, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Annina Stauber, Adrian Zaman, Hendrik Bonnemeier, Jürgen Dunst, Volker Budach, and Oliver Blanck,
Treatment Planning for Cardiac Radioablation: Multicenter Multiplatform Benchmarking for the XXX Trial (to appear), International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics , 2022.

2021

Judit Boda-Heggemann, Oliver Blanck, Felix Mehrhof, Floris Ernst, Daniel Buergy, Jens Fleckenstein, Erol Tülümen, David Krug, Frank-Andre Siebert, Adrian Zaman, Anne K. Kluge, Abdul Shokor Parwani, Nicolaus Andratschke, Michael C. Mayinger, Stefanie Ehrbar, Ardan M. Saguner, Eren Celik, Wolfgang W. Baus, Annina Stauber, Lena Vogel, Achim Schweikard, Volker Budach, Jürgen Dunst, Leif‐Hendrik Boldt, Hendrik Bonnemeier, and Boris Rudic,
Interdisciplinary clinical target volume generation for cardiac radioablation: Multi-center benchmarking for the RAdiosurgery for VENtricular TAchycardia (RAVENTA) trial, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics , vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 745-756, 2021.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.01.028
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Svenja Ipsen, Daniel Wulff, Ivo Kuhlemann, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Towards automated ultrasound imaging -- robotic image acquisition in liver and prostate for long-term motion monitoring, Physics in Medicine Biology , vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 094002, 2021.
DOI:10.1088/1361-6560/abf277
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Maria-Lisa Wilhelm, Mark K. H. Chan, Benedikt Abel, Florian Cremers, Frank-Andre Siebert, Stefan Wurster, David Krug, Robert Wolff, Jürgen Dunst, Guido Hildebrandt, Achim Schweikard, Dirk Rades, Floris Ernst, and Oliver Blanck,
Tumor-dose-rate variations during robotic radiosurgery of oligo and multiple brain metastases, Springer , vol. 197, pp. 581-591, 2021.
DOI:10.1007/s00066-020-01652-6
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2020

Nils Rottmann, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Elmar Rueckert,
A novel Chlorophyll Fluorescence based approach for Mowing Area Classification, IEEE Sensors Journal , 2020.
DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2020.3032722
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