Dirk Bartz
Dirk M. Bartz (born July 22, 1967 in Simmern / Hunsrück ; † March 28, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German medical IT specialist .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1986 at the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium in Simmern, he completed an apprenticeship as a data processing clerk at Mannesmann Kienzle in Villingen-Schwenningen . He studied computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the Stony Brook University . From 1997 he was a research assistant at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science at the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 2001 and habilitation in 2005. From 2003 to 2006 he headed the Visual Computing for Medicine research group at the University Hospital Tübingen . His scientific focus was on virtual endoscopy and intraoperative visualization.
From 2007 he was Professor of Computer Assisted Surgery at the Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) of the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig . He died at the age of 42 while participating in the Berlin half marathon , 500 meters from the finish.
The "Eurographics Medical Prize", awarded every two years by the European Association for Research in Computer Graphics Eurographics , was renamed the "Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine" in honor of Dirk Bartz in 2010.
Works
- Large Model Visualization: Techniques and Applications (PDF; 3.9 MB) , Dissertation , 2001
- Visual Computing for Medicine (PDF; 31.7 MB) , habilitation thesis , 2005
- (with Bernhard Preim ): Visualization in Medicine. Theory, Algorithms, and Applications , 2007, The Morgan Kaufman Series in Computer Graphics , Elsevier ( ISBN 0-12-370596-7 )
Web links
- Obituary article on the homepage of the University of Leipzig
- Homepage of Dirk Bartz at the ICCAS - Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery - of the University of Leipzig
- dirk-bartz.de , archived from the original
Individual evidence
- ↑ The cause of death in half marathon runners is still unclear . ( Memento from April 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Newsticker on sueddeutsche.de, March 29, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Leipzig/Lokales/Schock-an-der-Universitaet-Professor-Dirk-Bartz-bei-Halbmarathon-gestorben
- ↑ Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine , archived from the original
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bartz, Dirk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bartz, Dirk M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical IT specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Simmern / Hunsrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2010 |
| Place of death | Berlin |