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

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

2012

Lars Richter, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Calibration of Force/Torque and Acceleration for an Independent Safety Layer in Medical Robotic Systems, Cureus , vol. 4, no. 9, pp. e59, 2012.
DOI:10.7759/cureus.59
File: cureus.59
Lars Richter, Peter Trillenberg, Achim Schweikard, and Alexander Schlaefer,
Comparison of stimulus intensity in hand held and robotized motion compensatedtranscranial magnetic stimulation, Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology , vol. 42, no. 1-2, pp. 61-62, 2012.
DOI:10.1016/j.neucli.2011.11.028
File: j.neucli.2011.11.028
Susan Bremer, Lars Richter, Stephen Oung, Achim Schweikard, and Peter Trillenberg,
Roboternavigierte Untersuchung der Tiefenabhängigkeit der Reizstärke bei der transkraniellen Magnetstimulation, Klin Neurophysiol , vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 49-49, 2012.
Robert Dürichen, Oliver Blanck, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Evaluation of a wavelet-based least mean square algorithm for prediction of respiratory movements, Carlsbad, CA, USA , 2012. pp. accepted-for publication.
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Efficient SVR model update approaches for respiratory motion prediction, Düsseldorf, Germany , 2012.
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Prediction of respiratory Motion using Wavelet-based Support Vector Regression, Santander, Spain , 2012. pp. 1-6.
DOI:10.1109/MLSP.2012.6349742
File: MLSP.2012.6349742
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Correlation between external and internal respiratory motion: a validation study, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 483-492, 2012. Springer.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-011-0653-6
File: s11548-011-0653-6
Markus Finke, Sven Kantelhardt, Alexander Schlaefer, Ralf Bruder, E. Lankenau, Alf Giese, and Achim Schweikard,
Automatic scanning of large tissue areas in neurosurgery using optical coherence tomography, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 327-336, 2012.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.1425
File: rcs.1425
Floris Ernst, Lars Richter, Lars Matthäus, Volker Martens, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Non-orthogonal Tool/Flange and Robot/World Calibration for Realistic Tracking Scenarios, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 407-420, 2012.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.1427
File: rcs.1427
Fernando Gasca, Tobias Wissel, Hamid Hadjar, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Sparsely optimized multi-electrode transcranial direct current stimulation, Munich , 2012.
DOI:10.3389/conf.fncom.2012.55.00136
File: conf.fncom.2012.55.00136
Tobias Wissel, Silke Anders, and Achim Schweikard,
On state-like behavior of temporal nonstationarities in patterns of resting-state brain activity., 3rd Biennnial Conference on Resting State Brain Connectivity, Magdeburg, Germany, 2012.
Christoph Metzner, Fabian Guth, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity Facilitates Excitatory/Inhibitory Disbalances in Early Phases of Tinnitus Manifestation, 2012.
Peter Trillenberg, Susan Bremer, Stephen Oung, Christian Erdmann, Achim Schweikard, and Lars Richter,
Variation of Stimulation Intensity in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Depth, Journal of Neuroscience Methods , vol. 211, no. 2, pp. 185-190, 2012.
DOI:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.09.007
File: j.jneumeth.2012.09.007

2011

Max Heinig, Maria Fernanda Govela, Fernando Gasca, Christian Dold, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Volker Tronnier, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
MARS - Motor Assisted Robotic Stereotaxy System, Cancun, Mexico , 2011. pp. 334-337.
ISBN:978-1-4244-4140-2
Max Heinig, Olaf Christ, Volker Tronnier, Ulrich G. Hofmann, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Electromagnetic noise measurement of the Motor Assisted Robotic Stereotaxy System (MARS), Yang, Guang-Zhong and Darzi, Ara, Eds. 2011. pp. 63-64.
Christoph Metzner, M. Menzinger, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Early Signs of Tinnitus in a Simulation of the Mammalian Primary Auditory Cortex, 2011. pp. P383.
Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Neurochemical Mechanisms of Perceptual Deficits in Schizophrenic Patients -- A Spiking Neural Network Approach: BC11 : Computational Neuroscience Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference & Neurex Annual Meeting, 2011.
Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Towards Realistic Receptive Field Properties in a Biologically Inspired Spiking Network Model of the Mammalian Primary Visual Cortex: BC11 : Computational Neuroscience Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference & Neurex Annual Meeting, 2011.
Lars Richter, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Realisierung einer schnellen und wiederholbaren Hot-Spot-Bestimmung für die robotergestützte Transkranielle Magnet-stimulation mittels Kraft-Momenten-Steuerung, CURAC, 2011. pp. 31-34.
Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
A Framework for Real-Time Target Tracking in Radiosurgery using Three-dimensional Ultrasound, Berlin, Germany , 2011. pp. S306-S307.
File:
Lars Richter, Ralf Bruder, Peter Trillenberg, and Achim Schweikard,
Navigated and Robotized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation based on 3D Laser Scans, Lübeck, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), 2011. pp. 164-168.
Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
SU‐D‐220‐02: Optimal transducer positions for 4D ultrasound guidance in cardiac IGRT, Vancouver, BC, Canada , 2011. pp. 3390.
DOI:10.1118/1.3611550
File: 1.3611550
Ralf Bruder, Florian Griese, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
High-accuracy ultrasound target localization for hand-eye calibration between optical tracking systems and three-dimensional ultrasound, Handels, Heinz and Ehrhardt, Jan and Deserno, Thomas M. and Meinzer, Hans-Peter and Tolxdorff, Thomas, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. pp. 179-183.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-19335-4_38
ISBN:978-3-642-19335-4
File: 978-3-642-19335-4_38
Lars Richter, Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Robust robot-camera calibration for robotized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 414-422, 2011.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.411
File: rcs.411
Ralf Bruder, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, Lars Richter, and Achim Schweikard,
Real-time 4D ultrasound visualization with the Voreen framework, Vancouver, BC, Canada; New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2011. pp. 74:1.
DOI:10.1145/2037715.2037798
ISBN:978-1-4503-0971-4
File: 2037715.2037798