Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

• Program: H2020, Innovative Training Network, MSCA

• Project acronym: HiPerNav

• Project title: High performance soft tissue navigation

• Coordinator: Oslo University Hospital

• Other partners: SINTEF Trondheim, University of Bern

• Abstract: HiPerNav is an Innovative Training Network (ITN) funded through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. There will be 14 fully funded and 2 partially funded PhD’s working on the project. The project aims to improve soft tissue navigation through research and development, to improve several bottleneck areas:

  • Creating effective pre-operative model(s) and planning

  • Faster and more accurate intra-operative model updates

  • Faster and more accurate model-to-patient registration

  • More intuitive user-interaction and effective work flow

  • Usage of high performance computing (e.g. GPU)

Informal Collaborations

• University of Twente: Thanks to our clinical partner IHU, we collaborate with Prof. Stefano Stramigioli, head of a group at Robotics and Mechatronics laboratory.

• Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic: We collaborate on simulation of living cells in fluorescent microscopy. The collaboration resulted in a presentation at an international conference [29] and a journal paper [18].

• Team Legato, University of Luxembourg: we have an active collaboration with Prof. Stéphane Bordas on error estimation in real-time simulations of deformable objects. The collaboration resulted in a common publication [16].