The contributions to this proceedings book show how new approaches and methods in medical engineering and medical informatics can advance medicine, health and health care. The papers focus on the following topics:
Biomedical Optics:
Decreasing progressive myopia by Rose Bengal mediated crosslinking of the sclera;
Strengthening the cornea post-LASIK using Rose Bengal mediated crosslinking;
Determination of quality and strength of animal pericardium – Development of an optical device – Dispersion Compensation for Fourier-Domain Mode-Locked Lasers;
Damage thresholds of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells by laser irradiation (527 nm) in the microsecond time domain;
Development and Optical Simulation of a Needle Endoscope for Optical Coherence Tomography to visualize Adipocyte Cells during Coolsculpting;
Design and Implementation of a Rigid Endoscope for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT);
Optimization of a multi-wavelength stimulation unit for functional in-vivo full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography;
Components towards fiber based Raman microspectroscopy;
Supercontinuum Generation with Sub-Nanosecond Pulses for Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy;
Evaluation of filter-combinations within a DNA-Quant-Module for Next Generation Sequencing;
Light-Induced Permeabiliziation of Liposomes;
Biochemical Physics:
A SpIDA-derived method to analyse the in vivo GABAB receptor relocalization and oligomerization in chronic pain conditions;
Characterization of structural properties of bacterial membranes with atomic force microscopy;
How Antimicrobial Peptides Interact with Model Membranes and Affect the Lipid Mobility – a FRAP-based Approach –;
Characterization of the interaction between the antimicrobial peptide LL-32 and a lipid monolayer using a film balance;
Concepts for a process-safe application of a micro-precipitation method;
Characterization of nanofluidics devices for high-throughput single-molecule fluorescence detection;
Design and implementation of a gel documentation system for multi-wavelength fluorescence detection for Biosafety Level S2 laboratories;
Investigation of the correlation between the natural moisturizing factor and non-invasive parameters of the skin barrier function in vivo;
Safety and Quality:
Extension of a medical engineering laboratory course in consideration of the research environment at HAWK and UMG;
Price-performance optimized hardware for molecular simulations;
Evaluation and comparison of two different types of motor control for BiPAP and CPAP mode in non-invasive mechanical ventilation;
Advancement of a sensor-system simulation for sleep therapy and ventilation test benches;
Biomedical Engineering:
An Improved Procedure for Automated Testing of Dialysis Machines;
Determination of intradialytic electrolyte shifts in dialyzers;
Tests with a new optical sensor for hematocrit and oxygen saturation at extracorporeal life support systems;
Endoscopic Suction – Evaluation and Comparison of Specialized Pump Technologies –;
Development of a surface electromyography-based mechanical ventilation procedure;
Development of a stopped-flow apparatus for rapid mixing of small fluid volumes in reaction kinetic studies;
Nav-CARS-EVAR: Comparison of patient individual vessel anatomies with an abdominal aortic aneurysm to their corresponding rapid prototyping printed 3D-models;
Construction of an Elastic-Motion Phantom for MRI;
A design to adapt a bleaching laser to a research microscope – An easy hardware extension to perform FRAP/FRED/photo switching –;
Development of a variable gradiometer coil to determine the thermal properties of magnetic nanoparticles;
Automated cavity-length optimization of a passively Q-switched microchip-laser by a piezo actuator control;
Developing a Calibrated Setup to Investigate markerless Multi-View Reconstruction of Freely Moving Rodents;
E-Health:
Standardisation of Surgical Terms for the Extension of the ISO/IEEE 11073-1010X Nomenclature;
A framework for testing the compatibility of medical devices with new communication standards of the ISO/IEEE 11073 family;
Development of data interfaces for opthalmologic devices;
MEDEAS – Development of an Medical Device Development Assistance System;
Creating Reports with BIRT to support the Development Process of Medical Software;
Replicating and Synchronising a Medical Database in an Object Relational Mapping Context;
Linked Data Applications through Ontology Based Data Access in Clinical Research;
Pipeline Insertion Sort on an FPGA – Special hardware for special solutions –;
System Testing on a Medical Software – A conception for the procedure –;
Development of a verification technique for Automatic Intra-operative SpineMask™ Registration (AIM) Fallback workflow;
An Image Annotation Tool for the Preparation of Object Detection and Automatic Segmentation in Thermal Images;
Image Processing:
Joint registration and segmentation using statistical shape models;
The Schatten-p-Norm as a Distance Measure for Image Registration;
Propagation of landmarks with a registration graph;
Groupwise Affine Registration of Medical Images with Missing Correspondences;
Registration of thermographic Images and three dimensional Point Clouds;
Automatic left ventricle segmentation on axial cine cardiac MR Imaging – Phase 1 –;
A Review of Neural Network based Semantic Segmentation for Scene Understanding in Context of the self driving Car;
Deep learning for spinal centerline extraction;
Development of concepts for high quality image reconstruction based on adaptive grid sizes;
A syntactic approach to wreck pattern recognition in sonar images;
Object tracking for accurate irritation-free 3D shape measurements of human faces and body parts;
Evaluation of Bluetooth Positioning for Medical Device Tracking;
Signal Processing:
Compressing Vector Fields by Using K-SVD;
A Comparison of RIDE and ICA for the Decomposition of ERPs in EEG-data;
A Neural Network for Single-Channel EEG Prediction and Encoding of Attention Selection;
Structure the Noise! Machine Learning for Alarm Diagnosis;
Classification of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules using Deep Learning Networks;
Design and implementation of a noise reducing filter solution for biosignals derived from phonocardiography and beat-to-beat finger plethysmography;
Development of a ball balancing robot – Modularity and control concept –;
Development of a Ball-Balancing Robot platform;
Medical Imaging:
Simulated Monochromatic X-ray Images by Forward Projection Utilizing the Lambert-Beer Law;
Failure detection of X-ray tubes for medical devices – a case study –;
Influence of patient motion on the depiction of microcalcifications in digital tomosynthesis;
Discriminating breast microcalcifications with MARS;
