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We’re proud to share that our master students Ali Ghahramanizadi, Yunbing Song, Shujie Tang, Pooja Rao, and Ivan Alexander Trujillo Freire represented our group at the CURAC Conference 2025. Together, they presented three papers: two oral presentations and one poster, showcasing their research in th...

We are pleased to share that our paper, "Learning-based autonomous navigation, benchmark environments and simulation framework for endovascular interventions," has been accepted for publication in Computers in Biology and Medicine. In this work, we present stEVE (simulated EndoVascular Environment),...

On July 10th 2025, SPARC member Lennart Karstensen successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Simulation-based Control Learning for Patient-Specific Autonomous Navigation for Endovascular Interventions in the Real World”. The examination committee consisted of Prof. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich (FAU)...

SPARC member Pit Henrich was awarded first place for his presentation at AIBEConf, held at the Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.hip) in Erlangen. His research focuses on advancing robotic interaction with deformable tissue and objects (a critical challenge in surgical robotics) by providing str...

We are pleased to share that our paper, “LUDO: Low-Latency Understanding of Deformable Objects using Point Cloud Occupancy Functions,” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. In this work, we present LUDO, a method for low-latency understanding of deformable object...

A new research project coordinated by Prof. Dr. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich aims to harness artificial intelligence to support the early detection of endometriosis using ultrasound imaging. The interdisciplinary team is developing machine learning models that can automatically identify subtle patterns ...

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest paper, “NeuroLens: Organ Localization Using Natural Language Commands for Anatomical Recognition in Surgical Training,” in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. In this work, we present NeuroLens, a system th...

We are thrilled to announce that our Postdoctoral Researcher Dr.-Ing. Ramy Zeineldin has received the Best Dissertation 2023/2024 award for his PhD thesis titled "Deep Multimodality Image-Guided System for Assisting Neurosurgery" from the faculty of informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KI...

We have a new doctor! Congratulations to Dr.-Ing. Christian Marzi who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Capacitive Spatial Exteroception in Minimally Invasive Continuum Robots" as a collaborative work between KIT and SPARC at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The examination committee consist...

SPARC member Dr.-Ing. Paul Maria Scheikl gave a talk and a practical lab session on reinforcement learning in robot-assisted surgery at the summer school on control of surgical robots (COSUR) in Verona, Italy. The COSUR summer school is held every two years and targets PhD students interested to the...