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Modern medical devices capture a multitude of electronic signals. Functions of medical devices can be actuated electronically. The methods of system dynamics can help to improve such devices in several ways and to make their operation safer and more ergonomic. Many medical measurement instruments provide physicians with data that is diagnostically difficult to interpret and contains artifacts. Mathematical models can be used to identify and remove artifacts as well as to process measured data and improve their diagnostic quality. Additionally, mathematical models can be used to design optimal feedforward or feedback control for surgical tools or to design instruments which could not be operated without complex controllers. Thereby, system dynamics contribute to the development of safe medical devices with a low risk of complication.
The research of the ISYS medical engineering team is incorporated in the Inter-University Center for Medical Technology Stuttgart-Tübingen (IZST).
GRK 2543: Intraoperative Multisensory Tissue Differentiation in Oncology
The GRK will perform research in the field of medical technology to develop innovative sensor systems for "Intraoperative Multisensory Tissue Differentiation in Oncology". These will enable cancer surgeons to differentiate at high resolution between malignant and healthy tissue during surgery, enabling them to better determine if tissue needs to be removed or preserved. In the long term, the aim of the GRK is to employ real-time data to improve patient safety and to shorten lengthy operations.
Our institute represented by Prof. Sawodny is the group's speaker in collaboration with Prof. Stenzl from University of Tuebingen.
Research Projects
- Development of algorithms to reconstruct the spatial pressure distribution inside the urethra in high detail
- Improved diagnosis of urinary incontinence
- Improved verification of therapeutic success
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- Thermofusion: an electrosurgical vessel sealing method
- Modelling and analysis of the physical process
- Optimization of the control algorithms to reduce the thermal damaging of the surrounding tissue
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- Systematic analysis of the workplace ergonomics during laparocopic procedures
- Design and development of a robot-based arm support system
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- Surgical navigation system for vision-guided orientation during laparoscopic interventions
- Fusion of absolute and inertial position data
- Visualization of preoperatively identified structures
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- Tumor-localization and intraoperative discrimination of malign and benign tissue from mechanical properties
- Sensor fusion using spectroscopic and mechanical data
- Identification of viscoelastic parameters of soft tissue
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- Noninvasive method to determine the glucose concentration of tear fluid
- Signal processing of the reflected beam
- Determination of the glucose concentration via inverse model
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- Transurethral en-bloc extrication of bladder tumors
- Model-based weak spot prediction in the bladder wall
- Patient-friendly and lower recurrence rates
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- Finite Element modelling of patient-individual breast tissue
- Simulation of various patient positions
- Image registration from multiple medical imaging techniques
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Publications of the Medical Engineering Team
- , “A novel finite element model–based navigation system–supported workflow for breast tumor excision”, Springer Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, pp. 1-16, 2019, doi:10.1007/s11517-019-01977-0
- , “Assessing the reproducibility of high definition urethral pressure profilometry and its correlation with an air-charged system”, Neurourology and Urodynamics, pp. 1-9, 2016, doi:10.1002/nau.23115
- , “Signal processing in urodynamics: towards high definition urethral pressure profilometry”, BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 15, pp. 1-24, 2016, doi:10.1186/s12938-016-0145-6
- , “In silico evaluation of geometry variations with respect to the thermal spread during coagulation of egg white using bipolar vessel sealing instruments”, BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2016, doi:10.1186/s12938-016-0238-2
- , “High Definition Urethral Pressure Profilometry: Evaluating a Novel Microtip Catheter”, Neurourology and Urodynamics, 2015, doi:10.1002/nau.22835
- , “Development of an arm support system to improve ergonomics in laparoscopic surgery: study design and provisional results in Surgical Endoscopy”, Surgical Endoscopy, 29, pp. 2851-2858, 2015, doi:10.1007/s00464-014-3984-x
- , “Towards a Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence:Application of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Regeneration of the Sphincter Muscle”, Journal of Clinical Medicine, pp. 197-215, 2014, doi:10.3390/jcm3010197
- , “Finite Element Breast Simulation for Sonography Image Registration”, 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2019
- , “Increasing Spatial Resolution through Automated Catheter Rotation in High Definition Urethral Pressure Profilometry”, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2016
- , “Intraoperative model based identification of tissue properties using a multimodal and multiscale elastographic measurement approach”, Proceedings of SPIE, 2015, pp. 95400M-1-95400M-6, doi:10.1117/12.2183876
- , “Intraoperative model based identification of tissue properties based on multimodal and multiscale measurements”, Proceedings of SPIE, 2015, pp. 932805-1-932805-5, doi:10.1117/12.2076831
- , “Eliminating Pulse-Induced Artifacts in Urethral Pressure Data”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milano, Italy, 2015, pp. 2779-2783, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318968
- , “Using Deconvolution to Determine the Sphincter Strength Distribution Around the Urethra”, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2015, pp. 6-11, doi:10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145163
- , “Stiffness gradient detection for tissue discrimination based on identification of mass-spring-damper models”, IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2015, pp. 1057-1062, doi:10.1109/CCA.2015.7320752
- , “Discrete wavelength selection for the optical readout of a metamaterial biosensing system for glucose concentration estimation via a support vector regression model”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milano, Italy, 2015, pp. 6421-6424, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319862
- , “Optimized generator modes for bipolar vessel sealing”, IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2015, pp. 1862-1867, doi:10.1109/CCA.2015.7320881
- , “Finite-Element-Modeling of Egg White as a Substitute for Tissue Coagulation during Bipolar Radiofrequency-Induced Thermofusion”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319708
- , “A Force-controlled Human-assistive Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2014, pp. 3435-3439, doi:10.1109/SMC.2014.6974460
- , “Sampling lattice and signal reconstruction in urodynamics”, Signal Processing (ICSP) 12th International Conference on, 2014, pp. 1790-1796, doi:10.1109/ICOSP.2014.7015302
- , “Characterization of a 6 DOF Acoustic-Inertial Navigation System for Minimally-Invasive Surgery”, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), 2014, pp. 1823-1828, doi:10.1109/ICARCV.2014.7064593
- , “Performance Study for an Acoustic-Inertial Close Range Navigation System used in Minimally-Invasive Surgical Interventions”, European Control Conference (ECC), Strasbourg, France, 2014, pp. 344-351, doi:10.1109/ECC.2014.6862302
- , “A Concept for a Novel Surgical Navigation System”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2014, pp. 3884-3889, doi:10.1109/SMC.2014.6974537
- , “Dynamic modeling of the hydrogel molecular filter in a metamaterial biosensing system for glucose concentration estimation”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Chicago, IL, USA, 2014, pp. 2081-2084, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944026
- , “A Mathematical Model of Bipolar Radiofrequency-Induced Thermofusion”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Chicago, IL, USA, 2014, pp. 5683-5686, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944917
Members of the Medical Engineering Team
Research Assistant
Phone:
+49 711 685 66568
Research Assistant
Phone:
+49 711 685 66300
Head of the Institute
Phone:
+49 711 685 66302
Research Assistant
Phone:
+49 711 685 66309
Deputy Head of Institute
Phone:
+49 711 685 66299
Head of the Medical Engineering Group
Phone:
+49 711 685 66321