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Abstract:
Medicine, and especially Radiology, goes digital -- thereby inducing changes in the work flow. Medical Monitors represent the link in the chain between image acquisition, processing and human perception. In order to provide on every display device the same image quality (leading hopefully to the same radiological interpretation) several approaches were already undertaken for standardization and calibration of medical monitors as well as regulations were released for normalization of medical images. Moreover, today's imaging modalities like Multirow Detector Computed Tomography or Magnetic Resonance Tomography offer advanced geometrical and temporal resolution. Thus the generated data are already within the same range as the human genome. Therefore traditional
reporting techniques like film or monitor reading are not longer appropriate. Moreover, the high computational power of recent workstations allows the implementation of more complex algorithms in order to assist the reporting radiologist, especially supporting quantitative tasks. This lecture will be divided into two parts: the first one will discuss processing of medical images for standardization as well as existing display devices, the second one will focus on recent advances in the field of stereoscopic display for simulation of liver surgery – first results will be presented.

Short Biography:
E.S. was born in 1957 and after finishing high school he studied Medicine at the University of Vienna where he graduated in 1982. Afterwards he worked in several hospitals, full filled training as general practitioner and got fully qualified as Pediatrician and Radiologist. In 1988 he joined the team of the Department of Radiology, Medical University Graz, where he became a faculty member at 1994 and his professorship in 2002. Contemporary he is the Vice Head of the Section of Pediatric Radiology as well as the Head of the Research Unit for Digital Information and Image Processing. Moreover, he is coordinating a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary academic network in Central Europe (CEEPUS – Central European Exchange Programm for University Studies – http://www.ceepus.info), which focus on biomedical imaging and technology transfer of advanced pediatric care as well as radiation protection. Additionally, for about eight years E.S. served as a consultant for Computer graphics to the medical vendor Siemens especially for virtual endoscopic techniques. During this cooperation two products were brought to the market – the Virtuoso3D and the Leonardo Workstation.