Team

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel

Head of Department

Email: stefanie.speidel(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5413
Building/Room Number: H 136/3.136

Research topics:

Navigation System
Simulation & Data Generation
Surgical Training
Surgical Robotics
Surgical Workflow Analysis & Complication Prediction

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Ricarda Abdel-Bary

Administration

Email: ricarda.abdel-bary(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building/Room Number: H136 / 3.137

Dr.-Ing. Zhaoyu Chen

Scientific Management

E-Mail: zhaoyu.chen(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 / 458 17233
Building/Room Number: H136 / 3.137

Dr. Sebastian Bodenstedt

Scientist, 
Deputy Head of Department, 
Group Leader of Data-driven Surgical Analytics and Robotics

Email: sebastian.bodenstedt(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5598
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.138

Research Topics:
Surgical Data Sciene
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Surgical Scene Recognition
Robot-assisted Surgery

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Dr. Micha Pfeiffer

Scientist, 
Group Leader of CAN/Computer-assisted Navigation

Email: micha.pfeiffer(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Non-Rigid Registration of Organs using Machine Learning
Simulation&Data Generation for Computer Assisted Interventions
Laparoscopic Computer Assisted Navigation

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Dr. med. Fiona Kolbinger

Clinician Scientist in Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery

Email:  Fiona.Kolbinger(at)uniklinikum-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 19624
Building/Room Number: H136 / 3.0G

Research Topics:
Surgical Data Science
Robot-assisted Surgery
Surgical Decision Support
Surgical Oncology
Clinical Translation

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Maxime Fleury

Scientific Software Development

Email: m.fleury(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H136, 3. OG

Gregor Just

Scientific Software Development

Email: gregor.just(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H136, 3. OG

Nithya Bhasker

PhD Student

Email: nithya.bhasker(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Surgical complication prediction
Survival analysis
Medical image analysis
Geometric Deep Learning

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Reuben Docea

PhD Student

Email: reuben.docea(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone:+49 (0)351 458 5596
Building/Room Number: H136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Image Guidance Systems for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
Geometric Deep Learning for Tissue Tracking & Deformation Prediction
Medical Image Analysis

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Isabel Funke

PhD Student

Email: isabel.funke(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5597
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.130

Research Topics:
Surgical Video Analysis

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Peng Liu

PhD Student

Email: peng.liu(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5597
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.130

Research Topics:
Medical Image Registration for Middle Ear Diagnostics
Navigation System for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery

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Alexander Jenke

PhD Student

Email: alexander.jenke(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5528
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.138

Research Topics:
Active Learning (SurgOmics)
Surgical Scene Understanding
Segmentation

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Dominik Rivoir

PhD Student

Email: dominik.rivoir(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5597
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.130

Research Topics:
Surgical Video Understanding
Neural Rendering

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Stefanie Krell

PhD Student

Email: stefanie.krell(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5528
Building/Room Number: H 136, 3.138

Research Topics:
Semi-supervised-learning
Segmentation
Phase recognition

Bianca Güttner

PhD Student

Email: bianca.guettner@nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5596
Building/Room Number: H 136/ 3.OG

Research Topics:
Soft Tissue Simulation
Training Data Generation
Integration of Model-driven and Data-driven approaches

Ariel Antonio Rodriguez Jimenez

PhD Student

Email: ariel.rodriguezjimenez(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building/Room Number: H 136/3.OG

Research Topics:
Digital twin for assisted robotics tele-surgery

Johannes Bender

PhD Student

Email: johannes.bender(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Navigation in Laparascopic Prostatectomy
2D-3D-Registration
Online Adaptation and Labeling

Hanna Hoffmann

PhD Student

Email: hanna.moellhoff(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Surgical Skill Assessment
Surgical/Medical Training

Kevin Wang

PhD Student

Email: kevin.wang(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3.OG

Research Topics:
Computer-Vision-based Force Estimation

Max Kirchner

PhD Student

Email: max.kirchner(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/ 3.OG

Research Topics:
Federated Learning, and Swarm Learning
Cloud Computing
Point Cloud Completion for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery

Danush Kumar Venkatesh

PhD Student

Email: danushkumar.venkatesh(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Synthetic data generation
Generative modeling

Jinjing Xu

PhD Student

Email: jinjing.xu(at)nct-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 15596
Building/Room Number: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
Surgical System Navigation
Image Registration

Susu Hu

PhD Student

Email: susu.hu(at)nct-dresden.de 
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics:
GeoSOP: Geometry for surgical outcome prediction

Martin Lelis

PhD Student

Email: martin.lelis(at)ukdd.de 
Phone: +49 (0)351 458 5595
Building: H 136/3. OG

Research Topics: