Dr. Christian Wachinger email address Institut für Informatik I-16 Technische Universität München Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching

News New website at MIT Dissertation Source Code Registration Tutorial Manifold Learning Tutorial Research Interests: Mosaicing Simultaneous Registration Multivariate Similarity Measures Optimization Techniques Computations on Manifolds Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound, Diffusion Weighted Images Related research groups and projects: Registration and Visualization Group Medical Imaging

Source Code Source code to some of my projects is available at Project Code.

Available Student Projects For further projects come by and ask! Running Student Projects Finished Student Projects Group-wise CT to Ultrasound Registration of Lumbar Spine by Abtin Rasoulian (DA/MA/BA) BOOPS: Breast RegistratiOn fOr Plastic Surgery by Martin Sälzle (DA/MA/BA) Joint Master Thesis with the University of Miami: The Combination of Medical Ultrasound and Deep-Sea Sonography by Sarah Hempel (DA/MA/BA) Needle Detection in 3D Ultrasound by Guillaume Houel (DA/MA/BA) Simultaneous Deformation of Medical Images by Mehmet Yigitsoy (DA/MA/BA) Ultrasound Imaging by (DA/MA/BA) Investigation of Local Phase for medical imaging by (IDP) Survey and Analysis of Mathematical Methods in Texture Classification with Application to Ultrasound by Florian Schulze (IDP) RF2B : RF to B-mode Ultrasound by André Dau (IDP/Klinisches Anwendungsprojekt)

Teaching Assistance Winter Term 2010/11 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures I Summer Term 2010 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures II Winter Term 2009/10 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures I Seminar (student supervision) Recent Advances in Computer Assisted Surgery Summer Term 2009 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures II Seminar (student supervision) Medical Simulation and Training Winter Term 2008/09 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures I Summer Term 2008 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures II Partly Tutorium Einführung in die Softwaretechnik Winter Term 2007/08 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures I

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Publications 2019 M. Paschali, W. Simson, A. Guha Roy, R. Göbl, F. Naeem, C. Wachinger, N. Navab Manifold Exploring Data Augmentation with Geometric Transformations for Increased Performance and Robustness 26th international conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), Hong Kong 2019. The original publication is available currently online on arXiv and will become available at link.springer.com (bib) 2017 A. Guha Roy, S. Conjeti, D. Sheet, A. Katouzian, N. Navab, C. Wachinger Error Corrective Boosting for Learning Fully Convolutional Networks with Limited Data Proceedings of MICCAI 2017: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention − MICCAI 2017 (bib) 2012 C. Wachinger, N. Navab A Contextual Maximum Likelihood Framework for Modeling Image Registration IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island (USA), June 2012. (bib) C. Wachinger, N. Navab Entropy and Laplacian Images: Structural Representations for Multi-Modal Registration Medical Image Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1–17. (bib) D. Mateus, C. Wachinger, S. Atasoy, L. Schwarz, N. Navab Learning Manifolds: Design Analysis for Medical Applications 2012. Kenji Suzuki (Ed.), "Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Medical Imaging Intelligence and Analysis", pp. 403-418. IGI Global, doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-0059-1. (bib) C. Wachinger, N. Navab Simultaneous Registration of Multiple Images: Similarity Metrics and Efficient Optimization IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Maschine Intelligence (TPAMI) (bib) C. Wachinger, T. Klein, N. Navab The 2D Analytic Signal for Envelope Detection and Feature Extraction on Ultrasound Images Medical Image Analysis, in press (bib) C. Wachinger, T. Klein, N. Navab Locally adaptive Nakagami-based ultrasound similarity measures Ultrasonics, Volume 52, Issue 4, April 2012, Pages 547–554. (bib) C. Wachinger, M. Yigitsoy, E. Rijkhorst, N. Navab Manifold Learning for Image-Based Breathing Gating in Ultrasound and MRI Medical Image Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 806–818. (bib) 2011 M. Yigitsoy, C. Wachinger, N. Navab Temporal Groupwise Registration for Motion Modeling Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), July 3-8 2011. (bib) 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) C. Wachinger, T. Klein, N. Navab The 2D Analytic Signal on RF and B-mode Ultrasound Images Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), July 3-8 2011. (bib) M. Yigitsoy, C. Wachinger, N. Navab Manifold learning for image-based breathing gating in MRI SPIE Medical Imaging, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, USA, February 2011 (bib) 2010 C. Wachinger, M. Yigitsoy, N. Navab Manifold Learning for Image-Based Breathing Gating with Application to 4D Ultrasound Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Beijing, China, September 20-24 2010. (bib) C. Wachinger, N. Navab Manifold Learning for Multi-Modal Image Registration 21st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, August 31 - September 3 2010. (bib) C. Wachinger, N. Navab Structural Image Representation for Image Registration IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, California, June 2010. Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA). (bib) C. Wachinger, D. Mateus, A. Keil, N. Navab Manifold Learning for Patient Position Detection in MRI IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 14 - 17 2010. (bib) 2009 C. Wachinger, N. Navab Alignment of Viewing-Angle Dependent Ultrasound Images. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), London, UK, September 20-24 2009 (bib) C. Wachinger, N. Navab Similarity Metrics and Efficient Optimization for Simultaneous Registration IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami, Florida (USA), June 2009. (bib) C. Wachinger, S. Baumann, J. Zeltner, B. Glocker, N. Navab Sphere Extraction in MR Images with Application to Whole-Body MRI. SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, 7-12 February 2009 (bib) 2008 C. Wachinger, B. Glocker, J. Zeltner, N. Paragios, N. Komodakis, M. S. Hansen, N. Navab Deformable Mosaicing for Whole-body MRI Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), New York, USA, September 6-10 2008 (bib) C. Wachinger Insights Into Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing: Strategies for the alignment of multiple ultrasound volumes VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Stuttgart, ISBN: 3836488264, December 23 2008, Amazon (bib) C. Wachinger, W. Wein, N. Navab Registration Strategies and Similarity Measures for Three-dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing Journal of the University Radiologists, Academic Radiology 15 (11), pp.1404-1415. Special issue of MICCAI 2007 (bib) C. Wachinger, R. Shams, N. Navab Estimation of Acoustic Impedance from Multiple Ultrasound Images with Application to Spatial Compounding IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska (USA), June 2008. Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA). (bib) C. Wachinger, N. Navab Ultrasound Specific Similarity Measures for Three-Dimensional Mosaicing. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 16-21 February 2008 (bib) 2007 C. Wachinger, W. Wein, N. Navab Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI, 2007, Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2 2007 (bib) C. Wachinger, W. Wein, N. Navab Ultrasound Volume Stitching 6. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer-und Roboter-Assistierte Chirurgie (CURAC 2007), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2007 (bib) 2006 A. Keil, C. Wachinger, G. Brinker, S. Thesen, N. Navab Patient Position Detection for SAR Optimization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Proc. of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2006), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2006. The original publication is available online at www.springerlink.com. (bib)

Awards

• Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 2007 for the diploma thesis Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing
• Wolfgang-Heilmann Prize of Integrata Stiftung for the Human Utilization of Information Technology

Theses

	Christian Wachinger Ultrasound Mosaicing and Motion Modeling: Applications in Medical Image Registration Technical University of Munich, 2011. Dissertation
	Christian Wachinger Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing Technical University of Munich and Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, March 2007. Diploma Thesis

Reports

	Christian Wachinger, Lilla Zöllei, Nikos Paragios, Jean-Francois Deux, Guillaume Bassez, Alain Rahmouni Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Images from the Human Skeletal Muscles Technical Report, TR-0602, Laboratoire MAS, Ecole Centrale Paris, June 2006.
	Christian Wachinger, Patric Somlo, Celine Hudelot, Isabelle Bloch Automatic Construction of Statistical Children Brain Atlas with MRI Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Paris, December 2005.
	Christian Wachinger, Andreas Keil, Nassir Navab Positioning on Magnetic Resonance Tomography Technical University Munich, September 2005.
	Christian Wachinger, Michael Pock, Peter Rentrop Simulation of the Inverted Pendulum Mathematics Department, Technical University Munich, December 2004.
	Benjamin Fingerle, Christian Wachinger The Mathematics of (Auto-)Calibrating AR Systems JASS, 2nd Joint Advanced Summer School 2004, Course 3: Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality Publisher Gudrun Klinker and Martin Bauer TUM-I0417, Technischer Bericht, Fakultät für Informatik, TUM, June 2004.
	Christian Wachinger, Benjamin Fingerle Foundations of Ubiquitous Tracking JASS, 2nd Joint Advanced Summer School 2004, Course 3: Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality Publisher Gudrun Klinker and Martin Bauer TUM-I0417, Technischer Bericht, Fakultät für Informatik, TUM, June 2004.