Advancing biomedical R&D

1. Category 1: Innovative implant design system and the development of innovative medical procedures

    

   Doyle, B., McGloughlin, T. - Centre for Applied Biomedical Engineering Research (CABER), Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and the Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland.

   Towards an Improvement in Aneurysm Assessment: Coupling 3D Reconstruction Tools with Engineering Know-How

   Winner of 5,000 EUR

2. Category 2: Innovations in computer aided engineering

    

   Khan, I., Aidun, C., - G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
   Atlanta, USA.

   Using Mimics to understand fluid-structure interaction at small scale in complex geometries

   Winner of 5,000 EUR

3. Category 3: Open category

    

   Frohlich B., Sturm G., Hinton J., Frohlich E. - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A; National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A; College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

   The Secrets of The Stradivari String Instruments. A Non-Destructive Study of Music Instruments from The Smithsonian Institution, The Library of Congress, and Private Collections.
   A Pilot Study of Seven Violins made by Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy, Between 1677 and 1709.

   Winner of 5,000 EUR

4. Category 4: Poster category

    

   Ritacco L., Aponte-Tinao L., Espinoza A., Inoue N. - Italian Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.

   Technique Development: Reproducibility of three-dimensional distal femur solid models using the same threshold level

   Winner of 2,500 EUR

5. Runner up in Category 1

    

   Schievano, S., Capelli C., Lurz, P., Nordmeyer, J., Taylor, A., Bonhoeffer, P. - UCL Institute of Child Health & Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

   An Engineering Approach to the Study of Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation

6. Runner up in Category 2

    

   Bluestein, D., Xenos, M., Rambhia, S., Alemu, Y., Einav, S., Ricotta, J., Labropoulos, N., Tassiopoulos, A. - Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

   Mimics Based Image Reconstruction Augments Diagnosis and Management of Vascular Pathologies: A Study of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurisms

7. Runner up in Category 3

    

   Yildirim, E., Changa, R., Ayan, H., Sperling, M., Gorniak, R., Guceri, S., Sun, W.  

   Visual and Physical Model-Assisted Epileptic Region Mapping on Brain Surface for Invasive Intracranial Electroencephalography

8. Runner up in Category 4

    

   Rain, B., Lim, Z.X.H., Cool, S.M. - Institute of Medical Biology, A*Star, Singapore

   Mimics: A useful tool for bone regeneration analyses in animal models

Facts and figures

This fifth edition of the Mimics Innovation Awards was again a succes. 40 papers, and 6 posters, from 15 different countries, were submitted, all of them of very high quality.

The Mimics Innovation Awards are not only worth 17,500€, they are becoming a prestigious prize in 3D Medical Image Processing.