Latest News
02.10.2017
VirtaMed: 10 Years Shaping Medical Simulation
SICAS congratulates: VirtaMed turns 10 years on October 2nd, 2017.
VirtaMed is a Swiss company that develops & produces highly realistic surgical...
27.09.2017
Statistical Shape Models in the Focus: New Start-up Shapemeans
Three members of the SICAS network have founded the start-up company SHAPEMEANS GmbH: Ghazi Bouabene, Thomas Gerig and Marcel Lüthi of the Graphics and...
20.06.2017
Venture Best Business Idea Award goes to ReflectUS
Congratulations to Sergio Sanabria and Orcun Goksel of the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich for receiving the Venture Best Business Idea award with...
20.03.2017
The world's first robot-assisted cochlear implantation
SICAS congratulates Stefan Weber and his team at the ARTORG Center, University of Bern: In a study recently published in Science Robotics, they report...
09.01.2017
Free Online Course on Statistical Shape Modelling
After the successful premiere in 2016, the University of Basel will be offering the second edition of a free online course on shape modelling, starting...
20.12.2016
Merry Christmas
The team of the Swiss Institute for Computer Assisted Surgery wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy and successful New Year!
Our office will be closed...
30.09.2016
In Memoriam: Anne Morel (1947-2016)
Anne Morel was a prominent neuroscientist who in her early career contributed greatly to our present understanding of the organization of the auditory,...
14.07.2016
Pregnolia wins Venture Kick Competition
Congratulations to the Pregnolia team: They won the Venture Kick competition 2016 and receive CHF 130'000.
Solving the problem of preterm birth assessment
The...
23.03.2016
Spark Award for Promising Method for Breast Cancer Screening
SICAS congratulates Orcun Goksel and Sergio Sanabria of the CAiM group at ETH Zürich: Their invention on sound-speed reconstruction for breast imaging...
18.01.2016
Free Online Course on Shape Modelling
The University of Basel will be offering a new online course on shape modelling, starting on 22nd of February:
Statistical Shape Modelling: Computing...
