Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS
| Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS |
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 Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Fraunhofer Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Bremen |
| Branch offices: | Lübeck, Berlin, Aachen |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Management: | Horst K. Hahn |
| Employee: | 80 FTE (as of 12/2017) |
| Homepage: | www.mevis.fraunhofer.de |
The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine (Fraunhofer MEVIS or MEVIS) based in Bremen is an institute of the Fraunhofer Society .
Its activities can be assigned to applied research and development in computer science and the natural sciences . Fraunhofer MEVIS focuses on Medical Image Computing (MIC) and digital medicine for epidemiologically significant diseases. The focus is on cancer and diseases of the cardiovascular system, the brain, the chest, the liver and the lungs. Fraunhofer MEVIS develops interactive systems for everyday work in clinical environments. The focus is on medical data that is used for early detection, diagnosis, therapy planning, therapy support or success monitoring. The aim is to detect diseases earlier and more reliably, to tailor treatments to the individual patient and to make therapy success measurable.
history
The Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems and Visualization GmbH (MeVis), operating as MeVis Research gGmbH since 2006 , was founded in August 1995 as a non-profit GmbH. One of the founders was the mathematician Heinz-Otto Peitgen . The sole shareholder of MeVis was the Association for the Promotion of Scientific Research in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen e. V. In 2009, MeVis Research gGmbH was accepted into the Fraunhofer Society . Up to and including 2018, the institute was called the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS . In 2010 the Fraunhofer MEVIS project group for image registration was founded at the University of Lübeck under the direction of Bernd Fischer (* August 25, 1957 † July 15, 2013), which deals with the registration of medical image data, a key mathematical competence in medical image computing. In February 2015, the Bremen Citizenship Science Committee decided to support a new institute building on the premises of the University of Bremen with 12 million euros from state and EU funds. Another 6 million euros for the construction project are to be financed by the parent company. In August 2016, after 21 years, the institute relocated its headquarters from Universitätsallee 29 to the address Am Fallturm 1, a building right next to the landmark of the Bremen Technology Park , the Bremen Fallturm . Due to the changing research priorities due to technical progress, the institute will bear the name Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS from January 1, 2019 .
Spin-offs
MEVIS has spun off four commercially active companies since it was founded:
- MeVis Technology GmbH (1997)
- MeVis BreastCare GmbH (2001)
- MeVis Diagnostics GmbH (2002)
- MeVis Distant Services (2004)
These companies were merged into MeVis Technology GmbH in 2007. In the same year the name was changed to MeVis Medical Solutions AG (MMS).
Cooperations
The institute is a member of the Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication Technology , to which 17 other institutes belong. In 2011, the long-standing cooperation between Fraunhofer MEVIS and the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group (DIAG) at the Medical Center of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands was intensified and systematically expanded.
In addition, the institute maintains a network of over 100 clinical collaborations worldwide.
structure
There are around 100 employees as well as around 25 research assistants and interns. Since joining the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in 2009, the MEVIS budget has increased from around € 4.3 million at the beginning to around € 9.1 million in 2017. Around two thirds of the income comes from industrial contracts and from publicly funded research projects.
The founder Heinz-Otto Peitgen resigned as head of the institute on October 1, 2012. Horst K. Hahn took over the provisional management of the institute from October 2012 up to and including 2013. The institute was jointly headed from January 1, 2014 to February 29, 2020 by Ron Kikinis and Horst K. Hahn.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Definition of MIC .
- ^ Obituary by Bernd Fischer .
- ↑ Fraunhofer MEVIS: Family Tree ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Fraunhofer MEVIS: Homepage Lübeck ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Press release on the decision to build a new institute ( memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication Technology (IuK) .
- ↑ Fraunhofer MEVIS: Clinical Partners ( Memento from October 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ New institute management ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Horst K. Hahn has been running the institute alone since March 1, 2020.
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 36 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 32 ″ E