[30 Aug 2010 ]

This meeting will be held on Sept 14 & 15 in congress center Papendal (Arnhem). Here, IMDI [Innovative Medical Devices Initiative NL] will have 1 ½ hours to present themselves in oral presentations and at booths. For further information, please, see www.hat-congres.nl. Attendance is free.

[30 Aug 2010 ]

On Thursday afternoon Nov 18 IMDI will be presented to the government, politicians, researchers, medical industry and anybody else interested. The afternoon will be presided by Prof Dr André Knottnerus. The meeting will start at 12 noon with a lunch where the 8 Centers of Research Excellence (IMDI-CoREs) will present themselves. The full program will become available in Sept. There… Read more

[6 Aug 2010 ]

Introduction

Using 3 publicly available anatomical whole-body atlases, Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat (Bai et al. 2006), MOBY mouse (Segars et al. 2004) and Digimouse (Dogdas et al. 2007), articulated versions of these atlases were built. To this end, major bones/bone groups were manually segmented for each atlas skeleton. Then, a kinematic model for each atlas was built: each joint position was… Read more

[26 Jul 2010 ]

The second Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM — see http://vcbm.org/2010/ ) was held in Leipzig at the Mediencampus Villa Ida on July 1 and 2. This year, there were

76 attendees, 17 accepted full papers (5 from the Netherlands), 23 posters and a poster fast-forward session, 4 invited talks, 2 keynotes by… Read more

[3 May 2010 ]

The STW Perspective Program on Cardiovascular Risk Management (CARISMA) has been approved and is now open for pre-proposals. All details, documentation and deadlines are further explained at http://www.stw.nl/Programmas/Carisma/