Research in Robotics

Advanced Robotics for Multi-Modal Interventional Imaging (RoBildOR) This project aims at developing advanced methods for robotic image acquisitions, enabling more flexible, patient- and process-specific functional and anatomical imaging with the operating theater. Using robotic manipulations, co-registered and dynamic imaging can be provided to the surgeon, allowing for optimal implementation of preoperative planning. In particular, this projects is the first one developing concepts for intraoperative SPECT-CT, and introduces intraoperative robotic Ultrasound imaging based on CT trajectory planning, enabling registration with angiographic data. With distinguished partners from Bavarian industry, this project has a fundamental contribution in developing safe, reliable, flexible, and multi-modal imaging technologies for the operating room of the future.

SUPRA: Software Defined Ultrasound Processing for Real-Time Applications SUPRA is an open-source pipeline for fully software defined ultrasound processing for real-time applications. Covering everything from beamforming to output of B-Mode images, SUPRA can help to improve the reproducibility of results and does allow for a full customization of the image acquisition workflow. Including all processing stages of a common ultrasound pipeline, it can be executed in 2D and 3D on consumer GPUs in real-time. Even on hardware as small as the CUDA enabled Jetson TX2, SUPRA allows for 2D imaging in real-time. You can access the code on our github page: https://github.com/IFL-CAMP/supra Additional information can be found in our work on SUPRA Göbl, R. and Navab, N. and Hennersperger, C., SUPRA: Open Source Software Defined Ultrasound Processing for Real-Time Applications, eprint arXiv:1711.06127, Nov 2017, under review for IPCAI2018 The development of SUPRA was partly funded by the European Horizon 2020 Project EDEN2020.