Awards

Awards 2024

Landesforschungspreis 2024

Prof. Dr.- Ing. Lena Maier-Hein

was awarded the

State Research Prize

for

excellence in applied research

22th October 2024, Stuttgart

PhaKIR Award - 1st place

The 1st place in the category surgical instrument keypoint estimation

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Lena Maier-Hein

in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge - sub-challenge: PhaKIR - Challenge: Phase, Keypoint and Instrument Recognition

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 3rd prize

The 3rd prize in the category CVS classification

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 2nd prize, overall best performance

The 2nd prize for the overall best performance

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 3rd prize, category uncertainty quantification

The 3rd prize in the category uncertainty quantification

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 1st prize, category robustness

The 1st prize in the category robustness

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

Women in MICCAI - Best Oral Presentation Award

Silvia Seidlitz

won the

Women in MICCAI (WiM)

Honourable Mention:

Best Oral Presentation Award

for the paper:

"Deep intra-operative illumination calibration of hyperspectral cameras"

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

The European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics - Most downloaded paper award

Burak Kocak, Bettina Baessler, Spyridon Bakas, Renato Cuocolo, Andrey Fedorov, Lena Maier-Hein, Nathaniel Mercaldo, Henning Müller, Fanny Orlhac, Daniel Pinto dos Santos, Arnaldo Stanzione, Lorenzo Ugga and Alex Zwanenburg

were awarded with the

Most downloaded paper award in the field of Imaging Informatic and Artificial Intelligence in Insights into Imaging

for the article:

"CheckList for EvaluAtion of Radiomics research (CLEAR): a step-by-step reporting guidline for authos and reviewers endorsed by ESR and EuSoMII

Pisa, October 2024

2nd Place - MICCAI Educational Challenge

Annika Reinke & A. Emre Kavur

won the 2nd place in the

MICCAI Educational Challenge 2024

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 06th to October 10th in Marrakesh, Morocco

Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School - Poster Prize

Kris Dreher

won the

Poster Prize

at the

Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School

5th - 9th August 2024, Galway, Ireland

Surgical Data Science Summer School Strasbourg 2024 - First Place Group Project

Freweini Tesfai, Anjana, Wijekoon, José Trayano, Lennart Maack, Leon Mayer, Takuto Yoshida

won the

First Place Group Project Award

at the

Surgical Data Science Summer School Strasbourg 2024

for

"Ultrasound 2D to 3D: Revolutionizing Myomectomy with Cutting Edge Fibroid Mapping for Precision Surgery"

15th July 2024, Strasbourg

DKFZ PhD Retreat - Best PhD Talk Award

The Best PhD Talk Award

was awarded to

Tom Rix

for his talk

Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging with Deep Learning

at the DKFZ PhD Retreat, Weil der Stadt, 1st-3rd July 2024

Deutscher Krebspreis 2024

The German Cancer Award 2024

was awarded to 

Prof. Dr. Lena Maier-Hein

for

Outstanding scientific achievements in translational cancer research

June 21st 2024, Berlin

IPCAI 2024 - CASCINATION & Zeiss Machine Learning in CAI Award

The CASCINATION & Zeiss Machine Learning in CAI Award

was awarded to

Ahmad Bin Qasim and Alessandro Motta, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Jan Sellner, Leonardo Ayala, Marco Hübner,  Marc Bressan, Berkin Özdemir, Karl Friedrich Kowalewski, Felix Nickel, Silvia Seidlitz and Lena Maier-Hein

for the paper titled

Test-time Augmentation with Synthetic Data Addresses Distribution Shifts in Spectral Imaging

June 19th 2024, Barcelona

CVPR 2024 Annotation Competition - 1st Place

1st place

was awarded to

Tim Rädsch

in the CVPR 2024 Annotation Competition

41th IIEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)

17th - 21th June 2024, Seattle, USA

Helmholtz Promotionspreis

The Helmholtz Promotionspreis 2023

was awarded to

Dr. Leonardo Ayala

for

"Outstanding achievements during the doctorate"

April 29th 2024, Berlin

BVM Award 2024 for Best Master Thesis

The BVM Award 2024

was awarded to

Christoph Julien Bender

for his master thesis

"Hardware-Related Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms for Photoacoustic Image Analysis"

March 12th 2024, Erlangen

Awards 2023

PhD Poster Prize 2023

PhD Poster Prize 2023

was awarded to

Tom Rix

for

"Photoacoustic Image Synthesis with Deep Learning"

December 15th 2023 in Heidelberg

Helmholtz AI - Best Digital Resource

Best Digital Resource Award

was awarded to

Annika Reinke, Emre Kavur, Minu Tizabi, Paul Jäger and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Metrics Reloaded - A framework for problem-aware metric recommendations for image analysis"

December 13th 2023

Richtzenhain Doctoral Prize 2023

Richtzenhain Doctoral Prize 2023

was awarded to

Dr. rer. nat. Annika Reinke

for her outstanding doctoral thesis entitled

"Eliminating Flaws in Biomedical Image Analysis Validation"

November 24th 2023 in Heidelberg

Best Flash Talk Award

Best Flash Talk Award was awarded to

Tim Rädsch

for

"HelmholtzNet - A large-scale imaging benchmark for the grand challenges of our time"

in the "Opportunities" Category

from the

ELLIS and AIHealth AI inScide Out (Un-)Conference

October 16-17th in Heidelberg

MICCAI 2023 - Young Scientist Award

Young Scientist Award was awarded to

Silvia Seidlitz, Jan Sellner, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Alessandro Motta, Berkin Özdemir, Beat Peter Müller-Stich, Felix Nickel and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts"

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 11th in Vancouver, Canada

MICCAI 2023 - Young Scientist Award

Young Scientist Award was awarded to

Jan Sellner, Silvia Seidlitz, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Alessandro Motta, Berkin Özdemir, Beat Peter Müller-Stich, Felix Nickel and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts"

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 11th in Vancouver, Canada

MICCAI 2023 - Best Challenge Reviewer Award

Patrick Godau

was awarded the

2nd Place

Best Challenge Reviewer Award

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 8th to 12th 2023 in Vancouver, Canada

1st Place Endoscopic Vision Challenge

1st Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Antoine Jund, Finn-Henri Smidt, Patrick Godau and Lena Maier-Hein

in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 8th to 12th 2023 in Vancouver, Canada

Best PhD Talk Award

Kris Dreher

was awarded the

Best PhD Talk Award

for the best talk at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held at Evangelische Tagungsstätte Löwenstein from 17th-19th July 2023 for the talk entitled "Unsupervised sim2real transfer of spectral images with conditional invertible neural networks".

JBO/Neurophotonics 3-Minute Poster Competition - 3rd Place

3rd place was awarded to

Niklas Holzwarth

at the JBO/Neurophotonics 3-Minute Poster Competition

for

Clinical tattoo tomography

April, 2023

MICCAI Student-Author Registration (STAR) Award

Silvia Seidlitz & Jan Sellner
 

were granted the

MICCAI Student-Author Registration (STAR) Award

for

Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometric domain shifts

March, 2023

Anton Fink Science Prize - Best scientific work

Tim Rädsch

was awarded the

Anton Fink Wissenschaftspreis für Künstliche Intelligenz

for

'Beste Wissenschaftliche Arbeit' (Best scientific work)
 

February, 2023

Awards 2022

Best talk of the topic area

Edgar Santos, Juan-Manuel Lopez-Navarro, Marco-Alejandro Suarez-Gutierrez, Pablo Albina Palmarola, Niklas Holzwarth, Lena Maier-Hein, Renán Sánchez-Porras, Johannes Woitzik

were awarded with the

'Bester Vortrag der Sektion' (Best talk of the topic area)

for

"Sichtbarmachung der vertikalen Ausbreitung von Spreading Depolarizations und unterschiedlicher regionaler Sauerstoffsättigungsmuster durch photoakustische Bildgebung in der Tiefe des gyrenzephalen Kortex"

from the 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie

Leipzig, October 27th-29st, 2022

IHU Surgical Action Triplet Award

1st Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Finn-Henri Smidt, Melanie Schellenberg, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Jan-Hinrich Nölke and Lena Maier-Hein

in the CholecTriplet2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Category: Presence Detection & Classification

 

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on September 18th-22nd 2022, Singapore

IHU Surgical Action Triplet Award

2nd Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Finn-Henri Smidt, Melanie Schellenberg, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Jan-Hinrich Nölke and Lena Maier-Hein

in the CholecTriplet2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Category: Spatial Localization

 

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on September 18th-22nd 2022, Singapore

Polyp Detection in Endocv'22 Challenge - 1st place

1st Place awarded to

Amine ElYamlahi, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Lucas-Raphael Müller, Tim Adler, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Michael Baumgartner, Paul Jäger and Lena Maier-Hein

in the Polyp Detection in Endocv'22 Challenge

4th International Workshop on EndoscopicComputerVision in conjuction with 19th IEEE International Symposium Biomedical Imaging, IEEE ISBI 2022

Awards 2021

GIANA Polyp Classification Challenge - 1st place

Amine Yamlahi, Thuy Nuong Tran, Tobias Ross, Patrick Godau, Jan Sellner, Tim Adler, Silvia Seidlitz and Lena Maier-Hein

for the outstanding participation at

GIANA 2021 CHALLENGE

held on October 1st 2021.

MICCAI Educational Challenge - 1st place

Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi & Carol H. Sudre
 

won the 1st place in the

MICCAI Educational Challenge 2021
 

MICCAI September 30, 2021

IPCAI Audience Awards for Best Innovation: Runner-up

Niklas Holzwarth, Melanie Schellenberg, Janek Gröhl, Kris Dreher, Jan-Hinrich Nölke,
Alexander Seitel, Minu D Tizabi, Beat P Müller-Stich, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded with the

Audience Award for Best Innovation: Runner-up

Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions
IPCAI 2021 June 22-23, 2021 Munich, Germany

IPCAI Distinguished Reviewer Award

Tobias Roß

was awarded with the

IPCAI 2021: Distinguished Reviewer Award

The 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2021 June 22-23, 2021 Munich, Germany

Best PhD Talk Award

Annika Reinke
 

was awarded with the

Best PhD Talk Award
 

for reiceiving the best PhD Talk prize at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held virtually from 5-6 July 2021 for the talk entitled "Maximizing the impact of bimedical image analysis competitions".

 

DKFZ International PhD Program, PhD Retreat 2021

MIDL 2021 - Audience Award

Annika Reinke, Matthias Eisenmann, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Carole H. Sudre, Tim Rädsch, Michaela Antonelli, Tal Arbel, Spyridon Bakas, M. Jorge Cardoso, Veronika Cheplygina, Keyvan Farahani, Ben Glocker, Doreen Heckmann-Nötzel, Fabian Isensee, Pierre Jannin, Charles Kahn, Jens Kleesiek, Tahsin Kurc, Michal Kozubek, Bennett A. Landman, Geert Litjens, Klaus Maier-Hein, Anne Lousise Martel, Bjoern Menze, Henning Müller, Jens Petersen, Maricio Reyes, Nicola Rieke, Bram Stieltjes, Ronals M. Summers, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Bram van Ginneken, Annette Kopp-Schneider, Paul Jäger, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded with the

Audience Award - Best short oral presentation

for the paper

Common limitations of performance metrics in biomedical image analysis
 

MIDL Lübeck 2021

Awards 2020

Winner of the Datathon for Grand Challenges on Climate Change

Melanie Schellenberg

was awarded

for winning the

DATATHON FOR GRAND CHALLENGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
 

Organized by the

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Berlin, November 5th-6th 2020

Winner of the Datathon for Grand Challenges on Climate Change

Patrick Scholz

was awarded

for winning the

 

DATATHON FOR GRAND CHALLENGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
 

 

Organized by the

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Berlin, November 5th-6th 2020

MICCAI Educational Challenge

Annika Reinke, Matthias Eisenmann, Laura Aguilera Saiz, Sinan Onogur, Leonardo Antonio Ayala Menjivar and Peter Maximilian Full

won the

3rd Place MICCAI Educational Challenge

23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, 4-8 Ocotber 2020 Lima Peru

MICCAI 2020 - Best Challenge Reviewer Award

Patrick Scholz

was awarded with the

MICCAI 2020 Best Challenge Reviewer Award

23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, 4-8 October 2020 Lima Peru (VIRTUAL)

3rd Place DMEA-Nachwuchspreis 2020

Benjamin Mittmann

was awarded

with the

DMEA-Nachwuchspreis (3. Platz)

for his master thesis

Mulit-Modality Fiducial Marker For Image Registration in Navigated Medical Interventions

 

Berlin, July 20th, 2020

Awards 2019

Thomas-Behr Förderpreis der MGN 2019

D. Gröner, A. Seitel, M. Eisenmann, B. Pekdemir, L. Aguilera Saiz, P. Sridharan, CT. Nguyen, C. Happel, A. Sabet, A. Franz, L. Maier-Hein and F. Grünwald

were awarded

with the

Thomas-Behr Förderpreis der MGN 2019

for the poster

"Fine Needle Aspiration in a Thyroid-like Ultrasound Phantom:
Can Electromagnetic Guidance Pave the Way to Multiangle Out-ofplane Approuches?"

 

Mittelrheinische Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin e. V.
Fulda, November 9th 2019

Young Investigator Award

L. Ayala, S. Wirkert, J. Gröhl, M. Herrera, A. Hernandez-Aguilera, A. Vermuri, E. Santos and L. Maier-Hein

were awarded

with the

Young Investigator Award

during the 31st International Conference SMIT 2019

for the outstanding contribution:

Deep Learning Approach to live Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis

Heilbronn, October 11th 2019

OR 2.0 andn MCLN 2019 Bench to Bedside Award

Leonardo Ayala, Janek Groehl, Adrian Hernandez, Edgar Santos, Sebastian Wirkert, Anant Vermuri, Mildred Herrera and Lena Maier-Hein

received the

Certificate of Award for

Bench to Bedside: "Life Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis"

 

MICCAI Conference, Shenzhen, China, October 14th, 2019

MICCAI Fellow 2019

Lena Maier-Hein

was elected a Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society at MICCAI

Shenzhen, China, October 14th, 2019

SMIT Science Slam - First Prize

Kris Dreher and Niklas Holzwarth

won the first prize of the Science Slam

during the 31st SMIT Conference 2019 in Heilbronn, October 11th, 2019

SMIT Science Slam - Third Prize

Laura Aguilera, Patmaa Sridharan and Matthias Eisenmann
 

won the third prize of the Science Slam

during the 31st SMIT Conference 2019 in Heilbronn, October 11th, 2019

Awards 2018

IPCAI 2018 - Best Presentation Award

T. Ross, D. Zimmerer, A. Vemuri, F. Isensee, S. Bodenstedt, F. Both, P. Kessler, M. Wagner, B. Müller-Stich, H. Kenngott, S. Speidel, K. Maier-Hein and L. Maier-Hein

are awarded the

Best Presentation Award Runner-up IPCAI 2018

for the presentation

"Exploiting the potential of unlabeled endoscopic video data with self-supervised learning"

June, 20th-21st, 2018​

Medical Image Analysis/MICCAI Best Paper Award

Lena Maier-Hein, PhD

is awarded the

Medical Image Analysis/MICCAI Best Paper Award

for the paper

"Dual-modality endoscopic probe for tissue surface shape renconstruction and hyperspectral imaging enabled by deep neural networks"​

Awards 2017

Preis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaft

Die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

verleiht

Professor Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein

Für herausragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Krebsforschung

den

Preis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Berlin, December 1st, 2017

Best pitch at the Science Sparks Startup event

Sebastian Wirkert, Anant S. Vemuri and Lena Maier-Hein

are awarded the

Best pitch at the Science Sparks Startups event

for the presentation on

"Rainbow Surgery"​

Heidelberg, September 19th, 2017

ISCAS Young Investigator Best Paper Award

E. Stenau, T. Simpfendörfer, M. Azizian, W. P. Liu, K. K. Anderson, D. Bergman, O. Mohareri, J. M. Sorger, D. Teber, L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

ISCAS Koh Young Young Investigator Best Paper Award

for the presentation on

“In vivo robustness analyses of intraoperative registration with fluorescent markers."

Barcelona, Spain, June 20th-24th, 2017

2017 Henry N. Wagner Jr, MD, Image of the Year Award

A. C. Baranski, M. Schaefer, U. Bauder-Wuest, M. Roscher, J. Schmidt, E. Stenau, T. Simpfendoerfer, L. Maier-Hein, B. Hadaschik, U. Haberkorn, M. Eder, K. Kopka

 are granted the

2017 Henry N. Wagner, Jr, MD, Image of the Year Award

 for the abstract image used in

“Preclinical evaluation of dual-labeled PSMA-inhibitors for the diagnosis and therapy of prostata cancer."

conhIT-Nachwuchspreis

Janek Gröhl  (Master Thesis) and Dominique Cheray (Bachelor Thesis)

are granted the

the conhiT- Nachwuchspreis 2017

 

for the best Master and Bachelor Thesis.

IPCAI Bench to Bedside Award 2017

A. Franz, A. Seitel, N. Bopp, C. Erbelding, S. Delorme, D. Cheray, F. Grünwald, H. Korkusuz, L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

Bench to Bedside Award

 for the paper

“First clinical use of the EchoTrack guidance approach for radiofrequency ablation of thyroid gland nodules."

Barcelona, Spain, JUne 20th-21st, 2017

BVM-Award 2017 for the best PhD dissertation

The dissertation with the title

Computer-Assisted Quantitative Mitral Valve Surgery

by

Dr. sc. hum. Sandy Engelhardt

has been awarded the

BVM-Award 2017 for the best PhD thesis 

on the Workshop „Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin“ in Heidelberg, March 12th-14th, 2017.

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euro by the Chili GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany.

Awards 2016

KUKA IJCASRS Best Paper Award 2016 3rd Prize

M. Ganz, D. Kondermann, J. Andrula, G. M. Knubben and L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

KUKA IJCASRS Best Paper Award 2016 3rd Prize

for the Paper

“Crowdsouring for error detection in cortical surface delineatiions."

Dr. Emil Salzer-Prize 2016

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Lena Maier-Hein

is granted

the Dr. Emil Salzer-Prize 2016

form the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, December 13th, 2016

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie - Presentation Award

T. Simpfendörfer, A. Franz, C. Gasch, L. Maier-Hein, M. Hohenfellner and D. Teber

are granted the

2nd presentation award (experimentally) from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie e. V.

for the scientific work

“Sonographisch navigierte Nierenpunktion unter Verwendung eines mobilen elektromagnetischen Trackingsystems."

PhD Poster Presentation Award

Esther Stenau

 is granted the

2016 PhD Poster Presentation Award
 

 for the Poster

“Robust augmented reality guidance with fluorescent markers in laparoscopic surgery”

IPCAI 2016 - Best Paper Award

Esther Wild, Dogu Teber, Daniel Schmid, Tobias Simpfendörfer, Michael Müller, Ann-Christin Baranski, Hannes Kenngott, Klaus Kopka und Lena Maier-Hein

 are granted the

Best Paper Award – Audience IPCAI 2016

 for the project

“Robust Augmented Reality Guidance with Fluorescent Markers in Laparoscopic Surgery”

Posterpreis Junge Wissenschaft 2016

Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the Posterprice 

IV. Interdisziplinären Kongresses Junge Wissenschaft und Praxis

for the Poster

"Von Eminenz-basierter zu Evidenz-basierter Medizin".

Life Science meets IT Hackathon 2016

Christoph Kolb, Matthias Eisenmann, Christian Weber and Jens Petersen

participated in the Life Science meets IT Hackathon (www.lifesciencemeetsit.eu) and won both the audience award and the award for "Best Business Case".

Together with their colleagues from the surgical department of the Heidelberg University Hospital they developed a system that greatly simplifies teaching of minimally invasive/laparoscopic surgery. The system allows experienced surgeons to virtually interact with the instruments of a learning surgeon and to guide them similar to classical surgery. The awards include participation in a Europe-wide startup contest and a comprehensive founding package.

Awards 2015

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderpreis 2015

Justin Iszatt

is granted the

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2015

for

the Bachelorthesis

"Multispektrale Bildgebung in der Medizin - Entwicklung eines multispektralen Laparoskops zur Schätzung des Sauerstoffgehalts in Geweben"

Curac Best Paper Award 2015

Eric Heim, Tobias Ross, Tobias Norajitra, Marco Nolden, Keno März, Daniel Kondermann, Stefanie Speidel, Klaus Maier-Hein and Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

Curac Best Paper Award 2015

for the paper

“Crowdgestützte Organsegmentierung: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen”

IPCAI Philips Best Presentation Award

Keno März, Mophammedreza Hafezi, Tobias Weller, Marco Nolden, Nassim Fard, Ali Majlesara, Sascha Zelzer, Maria Maleshkova, Mykola Volovyk, Negin Gharabaghi, Martin Wagner, Golnaz Emami, Sandy Engelhardt, Andreas Fetzer, Hannes Kenngott, Nahid Rezai, Achim Rettinger, Rudi Studer, Arianeb Mehrabi und Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

Philips / IPCAI Audience Best Presentation Award

for the presentation of the paper

“Towards Knowledge-Based Liver Surgery - Holistic Information Processing for Surgical Decision Support”

ISCAS Kikuchi Frugal Technology Award

A. Franz, T. Simpfendörfer, C. Garoussi, A. Majlesara, K. März, H. Meinzer, A. Mehrabi, D. Teber und L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

ISICAS KIKUCHI FRUGAL TECHNOLOGY AWARD

for the paper
“Echotrack for simultaneous EM tracking and US imaging: initial experience in ventilated swine cadaver” 

Awards 2014

Fachbereichspreis Adrian Winterstein

Adrian Winterstein


is granted the

Fachbereichspreis for the best Master Thesis 

titled,

"Ein ultraschallbasiertes Computerassistenzsystem mit integriertem elektromagnetischem Feldgenerator für die Leberchirurgie: Konzeption und Realisierung im Rahmen von MITK

CARE 2024 - KUKA Best Paper Award

Sebastian Wirkert, Neil T. Clancy, Danail Stoyanov, Shobhit Arya, George B. Hanna, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Peter Sauer, Daniel S. Elson and Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

KUKA Best Paper Award MICCAI 2014

for the paper

Endoscopic Sheffield Index for Unsuspervised In Vivo Spectral Band Selection

BVM Price 2014 for the best Scientific Work

Thomas Köhler, Sven Haase, Sebastian Bauer, Jakob Wasza, Thomas Kilgus, Lena Maier-Hein, Hubertus Feußner and Joachim Hornegger

is granted the

BVM Pirce 2014 for the best Scientific Work

for the presentation

Outlier Detection for Multi-Sensor Super-Resolution in Hybrid 3D Endoscopy.

Awards before 2014

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price 2013

Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price 2013

Prinz von Hohenzollern Inovation price 2013

Medical Embedded System

is granted the

Prinz von Hohenzollern Inovationprice 2013

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2013

Keno März

is granted the

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2013

for

the Masterthesis

"Computer-Assistierte Punktionen unter Ultraschallführung mit einem mobilen elektromagnetischen Feldgenerator"

EAU Hans Marberger Award 2013

J. Rassweiler, M. Müller, M. Fangerau, J. Klein, A. Goezen, P. Pereira, H.-P. Meinzer and D. Teber

is granted the

EAU Hans Marberger Award 2013

for

the best European paper

iPad-Assisted Percutaneous Access to the Kidney Using Marker-Based Navigation: Initial Clinical Experience

BVM Award for the best Poster

Alfred Franz

is granted the

BVM Award for the best Poster

for

MITK-US: Echtzeitverarbeitung von Ultraschallbildern in MITK

BVM Award for the best Scientific work

Keno März, Alfred Franz, Bram Stieltjes, Alexandra Zahn, Alexander Seitel, Justin Iszatt, Boris Radeleff, Hans-Peter Meinzer, Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the

BVM Award for the best Scientific work

for the project

Navigierte ultraschallgeführte Leberpunktion mit integriertem EM Feldgenerator

Best Graduate Award 2012

Alfred Franz

is granted the

Best Graduate Award

from the 

DFG Research Training Group 1126 - Intelligent Surgery

MFG Talente-Preis, MFG Stiftung Baden Württemberg, 2012

Alfred Franz

is granted the

MFG Talente Preis 2012

for the project

A navigational system for minimally-invasive tumor therapy

German High Tech Champions (GHTC) Award

The

German High Tech Champions AWARD

has been awarded to

Markus Fangerau and team

for the Business Case entitled

MITK pocket - Live the Mobile Dream

The Award is endowered with a price money of 10.000 €.

SMIT 2011 - Second Prize Oral Presentation

The Society for Medical Innovation and Technology

honoured

Lena Meier-Hein and team

with the

ORAL PRESENTATION SECOND PRIZE

for the outstanding contribution:

Markerless augmented Reality (AR) Guidance with optical Techniques for 3D Surface Reconstruction

Ingrid zu Solms Science Award 2009/2010

Ingrid zu Solms Science Award 2009/2010

in the amount of 3,000 €uro has been awarded to

Mrs. Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
Division Medical and Biological Informatics

Waltraud-Lewenz Price 2008

The German Cancer Research Center

has on the basis of the decision of the Scientific Council awarded the

Waltraud Lewenz Price 2008

in the amount of 7,500 €uro to

Mrs. Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
Division Medical and Biological Informatics

BVM 2008 - Award for best presentation

The BVM Award 2008 for best presentation

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein

for the paper

In vivo Targeting of Liver Lesions with a Navigation System based on Fiducial Needles.

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euros.

Berlin, April 8, 2008

Best Graduate Award

The Best Graduate Award of the Research Training Group 1126 of the year 2007

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euros.

Heidelberg, Dezember 1st, 2007

BVM 2007 - Best Poster Award

The BVM Award 2007 for best poster

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein, Fank Pianka, Sascha Müller, Alexander Seitel,Urte Rietdorf, Ivo Wolf, Bruno Schmied, Hans-Peter Meinzer

for the contribution

Atembewebungssimulator für die in-vitro Evaluation von
Weichteilgewebe-Navigationssystemen in der Leber
 

The prize is sponsored with 250 Euros.

Munich, Germany, March 27, 2007

SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium 2007: Nomination for Best Student Paper Award

Lena Maier-Hein

has been nominated for the

SPIE The Michael B Merickel Best Student Paper Award

for the contribution

In-vitro evaluation of a novel needle-based soft tissue navigation system with a respiratory liver motion simulator

San Diego, USA, 22. Februar 2007