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

2016

Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Christian Erdmann, Christin-Sophie Deutz, Benjamin Sack, Jirapong Manit, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Enhanced Optical Head Tracking for Cranial Radiotherapy: Supporting Surface Registration by Cutaneous Structures, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics , vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 810-817, 2016.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.01.041
File: j.ijrobp.2016.01.041
Jannis Hagenah, Michael Scharfschwerdt, Achim Schweikard, and Christoph Metzner,
Prediction of individual aortic root prosthesis size: Deformation modeling as an alternative to direct estimation, Dreiländertagung BMT 2016 , 2016.
Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, Rick O'Brian, Paul J. Keall, Achim Schweikard, and Per Rugaard Poulsen,
Online 4D ultrasound guidance for real-time motion compensation by MLC tracking, Medical Physics , pp. 5695-5704, 2016.
DOI:10.1118/1.4962932
File: 1.4962932
Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Multifactorial Modeling of Impairment of Evoked Gamma Range Oscillations in Schizophrenia, Frontiers , 2016.
DOI:10.3389/fncom.2016.00089
File: fncom.2016.00089
Philipp Jauer, Ivo Kuhlemann, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
GPU-based real-time 3D workspace generation of arbitrary serial manipulators, 2016. pp. 56-61.
DOI:10.1109/iccar.2016.7486698
File: iccar.2016.7486698
Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
An improved tracking framework for ultrasound probe localization in image-guided radiosurgery, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 409-413, 2016.
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2016-0091
File: cdbme-2016-0091
Svenja Ipsen, Nicholas Lowther, Gary Liney, Dirk Rades, Jürgen Dunst, Achim Schweikard, Paul J. Keall, and Oliver Blanck,
Echtzeit-Lokalisation in simulierten und realen MRT-Daten für nicht invasive Radiochirurgie des Herzens in einem MR-Linac, 2016.
Mark Chan, Melanie Grehn, Florian Cremers, Frank-Andre Siebert, Stefan Wurster, Stefan Huttenlocher, Jürgen Dunst, Guido Hildebrandt, Achim Schweikard, Dirk Rades, Floris Ernst, and Oliver Blanck,
Dosimetric Implications of Residual Tracking Errors during Robotic SBRT of Liver Metastases, International Journal of Radiation Oncology textbullet Biology Physics , pp. accepted, 2016. Elsevier.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.11.041
File: j.ijrobp.2016.11.041
Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
P28: Towards 6dof tracking of deformable objects for 4D ultrasound-guided radiation therapy, Sydney, Australia: Springer Netherlands, 2016.
DOI:10.1007/s13246-016-0494-2
File: s13246-016-0494-2

2015

Christian Wilde, Ralf Bruder, Peter Trillenberg, Sonja Binder, Lisa Marshall, and Achim Schweikard,
Modeling Electric Fields for Focal Transcranial Electrical Stimulation, Duesseldorf, Germany , 2015.
Renhui Gong, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Dimitre Hristov,
Investigation of Treatment Interferences of a Novel Robotic Ultrasound Radiotherapy Guidance System with Clinical VMAT Plans for Liver SBRT Patients, Medical Physics , pp. 3561, 2015.
DOI:10.1118/1.4925372
File: 1.4925372
Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Medical Robotics., .... Springer, 2015.
ISBN:978-3-319-22891-4
File: 9783319228907
Borja Rodriguez-Herreros, Juliá L. Amengual, Ane Gurtubay, Lars Richter, Philipp Jauer, Christian Erdmann, Achim Schweikard, Juan López-Moliner, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, and Thomas F. Münte,
Microstructure of the superior longitudinal fasciculus predicts stimulation-induced interference with on-line motor control, Neuroimage , vol. accepted for publication, 2015.
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Tissue Segmentation from Head MRI: A Ground Truth Validation for Feature-Enhanced Tracking, Lübeck, Germany , 2015. pp. S184.
DOI:10.1515/bmt-2015-5008
File: bmt-2015-5008
Floris Ernst, Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Optical localization of the human skull for cranial radiation therapy, Atlanta, GA, USA , 2015.
Ivo Kuhlemann, Philipp Jauer, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Patient localization for robotized ultrasound-guided radiation therapy, 2015. pp. 105-112.
Benjamin Wagner, Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Ray Interpolation for Generic Triangulation Based on a Galvanometric Laser Scanning System, New York: IEEE, 2015. pp. 1419-1422.
DOI:10.1109/ISBI.2015.7164142
File: ISBI.2015.7164142
J. Bahlmann, I. Beckmann, Ivo Kuhlemann, Achim Schweikard, and T. F. Münte,
Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals complex cognitive control representations in the rostral frontal cortex, Neuroscience , vol. 300, pp. 425-431, 2015.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.058
File: j.neuroscience.2015.05.058
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Enriching 3D optical surface scans with prior knowledge: tissue thickness computation by exploiting local neighborhoods, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 569-579, 2015. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-015-1246-6
File: s11548-015-1246-6
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Enhanced Tissue Thickness Computation by Exploiting Local Neighborhoods, Barcelona, Spain , 2015.
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Efficient Estimation of Tissue Thicknesses using Sparse Approximation for Gaussian Processes, Milano, Italy: IEEE, 2015. pp. 7015-7018.
DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320007
File: EMBC.2015.7320007
Floris Ernst, Achim Schweikard, Patrick Stüber, Ralf Bruder, Benjamin Wagner, and Tobias Wissel,
Analysis of feature stability for laser-based determination of tissue thickness, San Francisco, CA , 2015. pp. 93130Q.
DOI:10.1117/12.2078722
File: 12.2078722
Svenja Ipsen, Brad Oborn, F. Bode, Gary Liney, P. Hunold, Dirk Rades, Achim Schweikard, Jürgen Dunst, Paul J. Keall, and Oliver Blanck,
Echtzeit-Zielverfolgung für nicht invasive MRT-gestützte Herzradiochirurgie, Hamburg, Germany , 2015.
Jirapong Manit, Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
A Study of Gaussian Noise Effects on Skin Thickness Measurement, Lübeck, Germany , 2015. pp. S190.
DOI:10.1515/bmt-2015-5008
File: bmt-2015-5008
Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
An Approach to Improve Accuracy of Optical Tracking Systems in Cranial Radiation Therapy, Cureus , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. e239, 2015.