StefanieDemirci

Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality
Lehrstuhl für Informatikanwendungen in der Medizin & Augmented Reality

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Dr. Stefanie Demirci

Schriftführerin Master program Biomedical Computing
Managing Director
Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality
Fakultät für Informatik
Technische Universität München
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München
room: MI 03.13.053
phone: +49 89 289-17081
fax: +49 89 289-17059

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Biography

  • Diploma Thesis: A comparison of discriminant analysis methods for optimizing high-dimensional feature spaces (in collaboration with Siemens Corporate Technology)

Research Interests

  • Interventional image registration
  • Disocclusion in medical images
  • Shape-based detection in medical images
  • Segmentation in medical treatment planning

Active research projects

Registration of Angiographic Images

Registration of Angiographic Images

Angiographic images visualize vascular structure in different modalities like X-Ray, CT, or MR data sets. In many medical applications, a registration and proper visualization of the data sets, especially the vasculature is useful for a better navigation. The focus of this project lies on 2D/3D registration of angiographic data where intensity-based, feature-based, and hybrid approaches are evaluated, the latter two of them requiring an accurate 2D and 3D segmentation of the data. The main clinical partner is the radiology department of the Universitätsklinikum Großhadern (Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München) , industrial partner is Siemens Medical Solutions, Forchheim.
Assessment of Fluid Tissue Interaction Using Multi-Modal Image Fusion for Characterization and Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis

Assessment of Fluid Tissue Interaction Using Multi-Modal Image Fusion for Characterization and Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis

Coronary artery diseases such as atherosclerosis are the leading cause of death in the industrialized world. In this project, we develop computational tools for segmentation and registration problems on intravascular images including IVUS (Intravascular Ultrasound) and OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography). One sample component of this project is Automatic Stent Implant Follow-up from Intravascular OCT Pullbacks. The stents are automatically detected and their distribution is analyzed for monitoring of the stents: their malpositioning and/or tissue growth over stent struts.
Endovascular Stenting of Aortic Aneurysms

Endovascular Stenting of Aortic Aneurysms

Endovascular stenting is a minimally invasive treatment technique for aortic aneurysms or dissections. Thereby, a certain aortic prosthesis (stent graft) is placed inside the aortic aneurysm in order to prevent a life-threatening rupture of the aortic wall. Prior to the intervention, a computed tomography angiography (CTA) is acquired on which the surgical staff can measure the parameter of the desired stent graft and finalize the intervention workflow. The entire interventional catheter navigation is done under 2D angiography imaging where the physician is missing the important 3D information. The purpose of our project is two-fold:
1. In the planning phase, a modified graph cuts algorithm automatically segments the aorta and aneurysm, so the surgical staff can choose an appropriate type of stent to match the segmented location, length, and diameter of the aneurysm and aorta. By visualizing the defined stent graft next to the three-dimensionally reconstructed aneurysm, mismeasurements can be detected in an early stage. Our main goal is the creation of an interactive simulation system that predicts the behaviour of the aortic wall and the movement of the implanted stent graft.
2. During implantation of the stent graft, after an intensity based registration of CTA and angiography data, the current navigation can be visualized in the 3D CT data set at any time. This includes solutions for electro-magnetic tracking of catheters as well as guide wires and stent grafts. Eventually, Our main goal is the creation of solutions that enable the surgeon to enhance the accuracy of the navigation and positioning, along with a minimum use of angiography, leading to less radiation exposure and less contrast agent injection.
Automatic thrombus segmentation in in vivo micoscopic video sequences under low contrast and highly dynamic conditions

Automatic thrombus segmentation in in vivo micoscopic video sequences under low contrast and highly dynamic conditions

The Bloodomics EU project aims are to identify the genetic risks factors of coronary heart diseases.
One of the most common methods is to study the thrombus formation in the dorsal aorta of mutant Zebrafish larvae. The developing thrombus is imaged in vivo through a microscope/camera setup. The derived time to attachment, growth speed, and time to occlusion permits the characterization of the thrombus formation.
However, this step presently remains manual. Our objective is to provide the geneticists in the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute with an image processing tool to automatically detect and segment the growing thrombus. This will significantly speed up and improve the precision of this current analysis.
Prediction of Rupture Risk for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Prediction of Rupture Risk for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) describes an enlarged aortic diameter in the abdominal part of the body. Due to weakening rupture of the inner aortic wall layer, blood cells accumulate inside the wall layers and lead to a thrombus. In order to choose a suitable individual treatment, a prediction of rupture risk would be helpful. However, it is not possible to predict the ruputure risk only with quantative parameters extracted out of CT-images such as size and diameter. It is important to also include qualitative predictors like characteristics of the aortic wall and fluid dynamics.
Together with our medical and academic partners, we are interested in creating a model of the aorta and its thrombus in order to do certain calculations on wall stress and fluid dynamic computations. A further integration of other medical imaging devices such as PET/CT and IVUS into the geometrical model can provide more information about biochemical activities inside the aneurysmatic walls.

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Reviewing & Conference Activity

  • Journals: Medical Image Analysis, Medical Physics, Cardiovascular Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • Conferences & Workshops: MICCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ISBI, ICIP

Invited Talks

Publications

S. Demirci, A. Bigdelou, L. Wang, C. Wachinger, M. Baust, R. Tibrewal, R. Ghotbi, H-H. Eckstein, N. Navab
3D Stent Recovery from One X-ray Projection
14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Toronto (CA), September 18-22, 2011 (bib)
D. Ugurlu, S. Demirci, N. Navab, M. S. Celebi
A Vessel Segmentation Method for MRA Images Based on Multi-scale Analysis and Level Set Framework
3rd International MICCAI-Workshop on Computation and Visualization on (Intra)Vascular Imaging, Toronto, Canada, September 18, 2011 (bib)
F. Manstad-Hulaas, G. A. Tangen, S. Demirci, M. Pfister, S. Lydersen, T. A. Nagelhus Hernes
Endovascular Image-Guided Navigation - Validation of Two Volume-Volume Registration Algorithms
Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies 20(5), pp. 282 - 289, 2011 (bib)
S. Demirci, G. Lejeune, N. Navab
Hybrid Deformable Model for Aneurysm Segmentation
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2009), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 28 - July 1, 2009 (bib)
M. Baust, S. Demirci, N. Navab
Stent Graft Removal for Improving 2D-3D Registration
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Boston, MA, USA, June 28-July 1 2009. (bib)
S. Demirci, F. Manstad-Hulaas, N. Navab
Extracting a Purely Non-Rigid Deformation Field of a Single Structure
Proceedings of Bildverarbeitung fuer die Medizin (BVM 2009), Heidelberg, Germany, March 2009 (bib)
S. Demirci, F. Manstad-Hulaas, N. Navab
Quantification of Abdominal Aortic Deformation after EVAR
SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, 7-12 February 2009 (bib)
S. Demirci, O. Kutter, F. Manstad-Hulaas, R. Bauernschmitt, N. Navab
Advanced 2D-3D Registration for Endovascular Aortic Interventions: Addressing Dissimilarity in Images
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 16-21 February 2008 (bib)
O. Kutter, S. Kettner (=Demirci), E.U. Braun, N. Navab, R. Lange, R. Bauernschmitt
Towards an Integrated Planning and Navigation System for Aortic Stent-Graft Placement
Proc. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), Berlin, Germany, June 2007. (bib)
S. Kettner (=Demirci), C. Madden, R. Ziegler
Direct Rotational Interaction with a Spherical Projection
Proceedings of the Creativity&Cognition Symposium on Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory, 2004. The original publication is available online. (bib)

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Birthday: 12.01.1981
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Groups: Registration/Visualization, Segmentation, Medical Imaging, Computer-Aided Surgery
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