Tutoring activities of Thomas Wendler at TUM (2006-2010)

Supervision of student projects and thesis

List of supervised projects

• Laparoscopic Freehand SPECT by Ayah Haidar (Master Thesis)
• Development of a Disposable Tracking Target for Medical Application by Berkin Ergün (Master Thesis)
• 3D Surface Reconstruction for freehand SPECT by Gel Han, Christopher Resch & Christian Wiesner (IDP/Klinisches Anwendungsprojekt)
• Optimized Workflow for Integration of Pre-operative Images into a Intra-operative Imaging Application by Dominik Zaeuner (Diploma Thesis)
• Automated Segmentation of Sentinel Lymph Nodes from Freehand SPECT Images of Breast Cancer Patients by Asli Okur (Diploma Thesis)
• Clinical evaluation of freehand SPECT for 3D thyroid scintigraphy by Xinxing Feng (IDP)
• Clinical evaluation of freehand SPECT for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast carcinoma by Mei-Chuan Chen (IDP)
• Design and Implementation of a Graphical User Interface for Acquisition and Evaluation of Freehand SPECT for Lymphatic Mapping in Breast and Skin Cancer by David Weisgerber (IDP/Klinisches Anwendungsprojekt)
• Navigated Biopsy of scintigraphic cold nodules for patients suspected of having thyroid cancer by Katarzyna Szajkowska (Master Thesis)
• Optical Screening Methods for Quantitative Evaluation of Progression in Skin Displasia by Rebekka Mayr (Master Thesis)
• Feasibility study of beta probes for intraoperative detection of malignancy by Jakub Bieniarz (Master Thesis)
• Robust Surface Reconstruction using IR-Laser-Pointer by Asli Okur (SEP)
• An Iterative Reconstruction Framework for Surface PET: Positron Activity Surface Imaging using Tracked Beta Probes for Intraoperative Control of Resection Borders in Cancer Surgery by Coskun Özgür (Master Thesis)
• Workflow and statistical analysis and workflow optimized design of graphical user interfaces for thyroid examinations by David Weisgerber (IDP/Klinisches Anwendungsprojekt)
• Confidence visualization and robust inference based on tracking for beta probe surface reconstruction by Alexander Hartl (Diploma Thesis)
• Workflow analysis for tumor resection procedures and evaluation of potential applications for radio-guided surgery by Xin Xu (Master Thesis)
• Gamma Probe Modelling and Calibration for SPECT Reconstruction by Alexander Hartl (IDP)
• Design and optimization of collimators for handheld gamma cameras by Volodymyr Cherniy (Master Thesis)

Summary

• SEP: Each Diploma Student in Informatics (Dipl.-Inf.) at TUM has to write a Software Entwicklungsprojekt (SEP) during a period of at least 3 months. I supervised 1 SEPs.
• IDP: Each Diploma Student in Informatics (Dipl.-Inf.) at TUM has to write an Interdisciplinäres Projekt (IDP) during a period of at least 3 months. I supervised 6 IDPs.
• Diploma Thesis: Each Diploma in Informatics (Dipl.-Inf.) student at TUM has to write a 6-month Diploma thesis at the end of his/her studies. I supervised 4 Diploma thesis.
• Master Thesis: Each student doing a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Medizintechnik or Computer Science at TUM has to complete a 6-7 months thesis. I supervised 6 Master thesis.

Teaching activities

Organized Seminars (with Tobias Lasser

• Hauptseminar [[http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingWs08MISeminar][Molecular Imaging] - Winter Semester 2008/2009 (2 SWS, 4 ECTS)
• Hauptseminar [[http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingWs07MedicalSeminar][Methods and Tools in Medical Imaging] - Winter Semester 2007/2008 (2 SWS, 4 ECTS)
• Hauptseminar [[http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/TeachingSs07MISeminar][Molecular Imaging] - Summer Semester 2007 (2 SWS, 4 ECTS)

Given Lectures

• Lecture Tracking, Tool Calibration and Navigated Nuclear Probes at Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) (Faculty of Computer Science) - Winter Semester 2009
• Lecture Tracking, Tool Calibration and Navigated Nuclear Probes at Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) (Faculty of Computer Science) - Winter Semester 2008
• Lecture Tracking, Tool Calibration and Navigated Nuclear Probes at Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) (Faculty of Computer Science) - Winter Semester 2007
• Lecture Freehand SPECT with gamma probes: Reconstruction of nuclear images from sparse and non-uniform projections at Spezielle Probleme der Medizinischen Physik (Faculty of Medicine) - Summer Semester 2008
• Lecture Navigated Beta Probes for Tumor Resection at Spezielle Probleme der Medizinischen Physik (Faculty of Medicine) - Summer Semester 2006