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 31015200
Fax: +49 451 31015204

Kurzbiographie

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.

Mitgliedschaften

  • 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, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Multi-modal respiratory motion prediction using sequential forward selection method, Innsbruck, Austria , 2013. pp. 183-187.
Lars Richter, Gunnar Neumann, Stephen Oung, Achim Schweikard, and Peter Trillenberg,
Optimal Coil Orientation for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, PLoS ONE , vol. 8, no. 4, pp. e60358, 2013.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0060358
Datei: journal.pone.0060358
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Optimized order estimation for autoregressive models to predict respiratory motion, Heidelberg, Germany , 2013. pp. accepted-for publication.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-013-0900-0
Datei:
Oliver Blanck, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Pilot-Phantomtest zur ultraschall-geführten robotergestützten Radiochirurgie, Treuer, Harald, Eds. Cologne, Germany , 2013. pp. 122-123.
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Preliminary Study on Optical Feature Detection for Head Tracking in Radiation Therapy, Chania, Greece , 2013. pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.1109/BIBE.2013.6701632
Datei: BIBE.2013.6701632
Oliver Blanck, F. Bode, M. Gebhard, P. Hunold, Stephan A. Brandt, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, M. Grossherr, Dirk Rades, and Jürgen Dunst,
Radiosurgery to Create Lesions in the Pulmonary Vein Antrum: Preliminary Results in a Porcine Model and Possible Implications for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation, Calsbad, CA, USA: The Radiosurgery Society, 2013.
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, and Achim Schweikard,
Real time contact-free and non-invasive tracking of the human skull first light and initial validation, San Diego, CA , 2013. pp. 88561G-1 - 88561G-8.
DOI:10.1117/12.2024851
Datei: 12.2024851
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Respiratory Motion Compensation with Relevance Vector Machines, Mori, Kensaku and Sakuma, Ichiro and Sato, Yoshinobu and Barillot, Christian and Navab, Nassir, Eds. Nagoya, Japan: Springer, 2013. pp. 108-115.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-40763-5_14
Datei: 978-3-642-40763-5_14
Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Skin thickness estimation for high precision optical head tracking during cranial radiation therapy a simulation study, Atlanta, GA, USA , 2013. pp. S669.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.06.1775
Datei: j.ijrobp.2013.06.1775
Lars Richter, Peter Trillenberg, Achim Schweikard, and Alexander Schlaefer,
Stimulus intensity for hand held and robotic transcranial magnetic stimulation, Brain Stimulation , vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 315-321, 2013.
DOI:10.1016/j.brs.2012.06.002
Datei: j.brs.2012.06.002
Benjamin Wagner, Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Time-multiplexed structured light for head tracking, Treuer, Harald, Eds. Cologne, Germany , 2013. pp. 199-202.
Patrick Stüber, Tobias Wissel, Philipp Jauer, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Towards high-accuracy head-tracking for radiation therapy, Atlanta, GA, USA: Varian Research Partnership Symposium, 2013. pp. accepted.
Juliá L. Amengual, Josep Marco-Pallarés, Lars Richter, Stephen Oung, Achim Schweikard, Bahram Mohammadi, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, and Thomas F. Münte,
Tracking post-error adaptation in the motor system by transcranial magnetic stimulation, Neuroscience , vol. 250, pp. 342-351, 2013.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.07.024
Datei: j.neuroscience.2013.07.024
Ralf Bruder, Gerd Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Verfahren zum Auffinden der Position eines Schallkopfes, 2013.

2012

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
Datei: rcs.1425
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
Datei: 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
Datei: j.neucli.2011.11.028
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
Datei: s11548-011-0653-6
Robert Dürichen, Tobias Wissel, and Achim Schweikard,
Efficient SVR model update approaches for respiratory motion prediction, Düsseldorf, Germany , 2012.
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, 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.
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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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
Datei: s11548-012-0708-3
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
Datei: rcs.1427
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.