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

2013

Robert Dürichen, Ralf Bruder, Lucas Davenport, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Correlation and variation of a multi-modal sensor setup for respiratory motion prediction and correlation, Indianapolis, USA; Indianapolis, IN, USA: American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2013. pp. 186.
DOI:10.1118/1.4814365
File: 1.4814365
Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Design and evaluation of a highly accurate optical setup for backscatter analysis, Treuer, Harald, Eds. Cologne, Germany , 2013. pp. 181-186.
Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Estimating soft tissue thickness from light-tissue interactions a simulation study, Biomedical Optics Express , vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 1176-1187, 2013.
DOI:10.1364/BOE.4.001176
File: BOE.4.001176
Floris Ernst, Robert Dürichen, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Evaluating and comparing algorithms for respiratory motion prediction, Physics in Medicine and Biology , vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3911-3929, 2013.
DOI:10.1088/0031-9155/58/11/3911
File: 3911
Robert Dürichen, Lucas Davenport, Ralf Bruder, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Evaluation of the potential of multi-modal sensors for respiratory motion prediction and correlation, Osaka, Japan , 2013. pp. 5678-5681.
DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610839
File: EMBC.2013.6610839

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
Christoph Metzner, Fabian Guth, Achim Schweikard, and B. Zurowski,
Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity Facilitates Excitatory/Inhibitory Disbalances in Early Phases of Tinnitus Manifestation, 2012.
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
Lars Richter, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Hand-assisted positioning and contact pressure control for motion compensated robotized transcranial magnetic stimulation, Pisa, Italy: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012. pp. 123-124.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-012-0708-3
File: s11548-012-0708-3
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
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.
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
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.
Oliver Blanck, Robert Dürichen, Floris Ernst, Jürgen Dunst, Dirk Rades, Guido Hildebrandt, and Achim Schweikard,
Evaluation of a wavelet-based least mean square motion prediction algorithm for lung and liver patients, Barcelona, Spain , 2012. pp. S12-S13.
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Philipp Grüning, Patrick Stüber, Lars Richter, Oliver Blanck, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Estimation of error sources for optical head tracking in cranial radiation therapy, Düusseldorf, Germany , 2012.
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Efficient SVR model update approaches for respiratory motion prediction, Düsseldorf, Germany , 2012.
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
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
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
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
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.

2011

Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Performance Measures and Pre-Processing for Respiratory Motion Prediction, Vancouver, BC, Canada , 2011. pp. 3857.
DOI:10.1118/1.3613523
File: 1.3613523
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.
Peter Trillenberg, Gunnar Neumann, Stephen Oung, Achim Schweikard, and Lars Richter,
Threshold for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the foot: precise control of coil orientation with a robotized system, Klin Neurophysiol , vol. 42, no. 01, pp. P280, 2011.
DOI:10.1055/s-0031-1272727
File: s-0031-1272727
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