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The Heidelberg Innovation Forum is based on the fundamental idea that good ideas should be presented in the shortest possible time. “We proceed according to the WWW principle – Scientists, become essential!”, says Professor Andreas Reuter, Director of the European Media Laboratory (EML) in Heidelberg. Since 2005, EML has organised the twice-yearly Innovation Forum together with MFG Baden-Württemberg, the state’s innovation agency for IT and media. Klaus Haasis, Managing Director of MFG, adds: “The forum is unique of its kind in Europe. For the first time, there is a combination of science coaching and networking. With this event, we are building a bridge between research and business in order to bring innovative ideas to market more quickly.”
Medical 3D image processing
Two researchers presenting their solution to potential business partners are, for example, Dr Ivo Wolf and Hannes Kenngott of Insight Image Technologies, a spin-off from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. They have developed a medical image-processing program that provides intelligent three- and four-dimensional images of organs. In this case, intelligent means that the program automatically identifies the organs and any tumours.
Radiologists, surgeons and patients thus receive an exact basis for diagnosis, surgery and therapy. Until now, this was possible only to a limited extent because doctors had access only to static slice images.
With its medical liver navigation system, the young company offers another application that has not previously been available on the market. The advantage: the system calculates the shortest and safest route to the tumour in order to ablate it or inject a therapeutic agent.
Further information:
- Heidelberg Innovation Forum