Lima, 07 October 2020
Karl Heinz Höhne, professor emeritus and former director of the Institute for Medical Informatics at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), has been honored with the prestigious 2020 Enduring Impact Award from the International Society for Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI). The award recognizes Höhne’s lasting influence on the development of the field through his numerous groundbreaking contributions, successful clinical applications, and promotion of teaching and academic exchange. This includes the Visualization in Biomedical Computing conference, one of the roots of MICCAI, which was held in Hamburg in 1996.
Höhne’s work is inextricably linked to the name VOXEL-MAN. Under this name, numerous pioneering achievements have been presented since the 1980s, including the world’s first visualization of a complete human brain of a living person, the first three-dimensional atlases of anatomy and radiology (3D Navigators), which have been freely available since 2018, and the high-resolution 3D images derived from the cross-sectional images of the Visible Human, which remain unmatched to this day. The VOXEL-MAN Group, a spin-off from the institute, develops and manufactures virtual surgical training simulators for hard tissue procedures, which are in worldwide use.
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