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

2017

Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, Esben Schjødt Worm, Rune Hansen, Per Rugaard Poulsen, Morten Høyer, and Achim Schweikard,
Simultaneous acquisition of 4D ultrasound and wireless electromagnetic tracking for in-vivo accuracy validation, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 75-78, 2017.
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2017-0016
Datei: cdbme-2017-0016
Ivo Kuhlemann, Markus Kleemann, Philipp Jauer, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Towards X-ray free endovascular interventions - using HoloLens for on-line holographic visualisation, Healthcare Technology Letters , vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 184-187, 2017. Institution of Engineering and Technology.
DOI:10.1049/htl.2017.0061
Datei: htl.2017.0061

2016

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
Datei: cdbme-2016-0091
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
Datei: j.ijrobp.2016.11.041
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.
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
Datei: j.ijrobp.2016.01.041
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
Datei: iccar.2016.7486698
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
Datei: fncom.2016.00089
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
Datei: 1.4962932
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
Datei: s13246-016-0494-2
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.
Jeffrey Schlosser, Renhui Gong, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, Sungjune Jang, John Henrie, Aya Kamaya, Albert Koong, Daniel Chang, and Dimitre Hristov,
Robotic intra-fractional US guidance for liver SABR: system design, beam avoidance, and clinical imaging, Medical Physics , pp. 5951-5963, 2016.
Ivo Kuhlemann, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Robots with seven degrees of freedom: Is the additional DoF worth it?, 2016. pp. 80-84.
Ivo Kuhlemann, Achim Schweikard, Philipp Jauer, and Floris Ernst,
Robust inverse kinematics by configuration control for redundant manipulators with seven DoF, 2016. pp. 49-55.
DOI:10.1109/iccar.2016.7486697
Datei: iccar.2016.7486697
Ivo Kuhlemann, P. Jauer, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
SU-G-JeP3-08: Robotic System for Ultrasound Tracking in Radiation Therapy, Medical Physics , vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 3672-3672, 2016.
DOI:10.1118/1.4957073
Datei: 1.4957073
Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, Ricky T. O'Brien, Paul J. Keall, Achim Schweikard, and Per Rugaard Poulsen,
TH-AB-202-05: BEST IN PHYSICS (JOINT IMAGING-THERAPY): First Online Ultrasound-Guided MLC Tracking for Real-Time Motion Compensation in Radiotherapy, in Medical Physics , 2016. pp. 3857-3857.
DOI:10.1118/1.4958069
Datei: 1.4958069
Svenja Ipsen, Oliver Blanck, Nicholas Lowther, Gary Liney, Robba Rai, F. Bode, Jürgen Dunst, Achim Schweikard, and Paul J. Keall,
Towards real-time MRI-guided 3D localization of deforming targets for non-invasive cardiac radiosurgery, Physics in Medicine and Biology , vol. 61, no. 22, pp. 7848-63, 2016.
DOI:10.1088/0031-9155/61/22/7848
Datei: 7848
Oliver Blanck, Svenja Ipsen, Mark K. H. Chan, Matthias Kerl, P. Hunold, Volkmar Jacobi, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, Dirk Rades, Thomas J. Vogl, Peter Kleine, F. Bode, and Jürgen Dunst,
Treatment Planning Considerations for Robotic Guided Cardiac Radiosurgery for Atrial Fibrillation, Cureus , vol. 8, no. 7, pp. e705, 2016.
DOI:10.7759/cureus.705
Datei: cureus.705

2015

Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Oliver Blanck, Jürgen Dunst, and Achim Schweikard,
4D Ultrasound Image Guidance for Cardiac Radiosurgery, Cookham, UK , 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
Datei: 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.
Ralf Bruder, Christian Wilde, Peter Trillenberg, Sonja Binder, Lisa Marshall, and Achim Schweikard,
An Electronically Configurable Multi-Channel tACS Device, Duesseldorf, Germany , 2015.
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
Datei: 12.2078722
Dimitre Hristov, Renhui Gong, Jeffrey Schlosser, Ralf Bruder, and Achim Schweikard,
Augmented reality system for robotic ultrasound guidance of external beam radiation therapy, Barcelona, Spain , 2015.
S. Lüdtke, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Patrick Stüber, Floris Ernst, Achim Schweikard, and Tobias Wissel,
Calibration of galvanometric laser scanners using statistical learning methods, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York; Lübeck, Germany: Springer, 2015. pp. 467-472.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-46224-9_80
Datei: 978-3-662-46224-9_80