Visual Computing for Medicine, 2nd Edition

Author Biography

PROF. DR.-ING. BERNHARD PREIM was born in 1969 in Magdeburg, Germany. He received the diploma in computer science in 1994 (minor in mathematics) and a Ph.D. in 1998 from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Ph.D. thesis “Interactive Illustrations and Animations for the Exploration of Spatial Relations”). In 1999 he finished work on a German textbook on Human Computer Interaction which appeared at Springer. He then moved to Bremen where he joined the staff of MeVis (Center for Medical Diagnosis and Visualization Systems, Bremen). In close collaboration with radiologists and surgeons he directed the work on “computer-aided planning in liver surgery” focusing on virtual resection, automatic resection proposals, visualization ...