Virtual Lima, 07 October 2020
Karl Heinz Höhne, professor emeritus and former director of the Institute of 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 groundbreaking algorithmic contributions in 3D visualization, spatial knowledge representation and simulation, successful clinical applications, and his commitment to education and academic exchange. The latter also includes the Visualization in Biomedical Computing conference, one of the roots of MICCAI, which took place in Hamburg in 1996.
Höhne’s work is inextricably linked to the name VOXEL-MAN. Under this name, numerous pioneering applications have been presented since the 1980s, including interactive anatomical atlases of the human brain, internal organs, and upper limb. The high-resolution renderings derived from the Visible Human 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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