Karl D. Fritscher, MD, PhD

Personal Data:    

Nationality: Austria
Date of birth: 5.4.1976
Place of birth: Linz 

Education:

1982 - 1986    Volksschule Strengberg (primary school)

1986 - 1994    Bundesgymnasium Amstetten (secondary grammar school)  

1994                General qualification for university entrance Bundesgymnasium                                    Amstetten (highest honors)

Study of medicine:

1994 - 2001               Study of medicine at the University of Vienna
3/2000 – 8/2000       Study of medicine at the University of Vienna

Postgraduate Activities:

02. 04. - 25. 05. 2001     Basic military service in the Austrian army

28. 05. - 07. 09. 2001     Physician at the „Stellungskommission Wien"

10. 09. - 30. 11. 2001     Physician at the Department for Otorhino- laryngology at the                                            Army Hospital Vienna

01. 03. - 31. 08. 2002     Intern at medical practice of Dr. Friedrich Matejicek (General                                            practitioner, Vienna)

Study of medical informatics:

10/2002- 07/2004   Study of medical informatics at University for Health                                    Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT) in                                    Innsbruck

07/2003                    Participant at the international master class for medical                                    informatics in Salt Lake City                                                    

07/2004                    Masters degree in Medical Informatics at UMIT              

12/2006                    PhD degree in Biomedical Informatics at UMIT (magna cum                                    laude)      

 

Scientific Activities:

02/2003 - 03/2003  Scientific assistant at Institute for Biomedical Image Analysis (IBIA, Head: Univ. Prof. Dr. Rainer Schubert) at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT)

04/2003 - 06/2003  Scientific assistant at IBIA in the project „Modular, model based segmentation“ (10 hours/week)

07/2003 - 04/2004  Half time scientific assistant at IBIA in the project „Modular, model based segmentation“

05/2004 - 03/2006  Full time scientific assistant at IBIA in the project „Modular,model based segmentation“

03/2006 - 05/2006  Full time scientific assistant in the project “X-ray- and CT- Analysis” funded by the AO Foundation

06/2007 - present  Research and teaching assistant (20 h/week) and scientific assistant in the project “X-ray- and CT-Analysis” funded by the AO Foundation (20 h/week)

09/2008 - present  Head of research group “Methods of Statistical Modeling in Medical  Imaging” (MSMI)

since 2008   Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical  Imaging (ISBI) and International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)          

 

SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:

• Atlas- and model-based registration
• Non-rigid registration
• Atlas- and model-based registration
• Probabilistic segmentation methods
• Active contours, deformable models and level sets
• Shape representation and analysis
• Texture segmentation and analysis
• Statistical methods for dimensionality reduction
• Statistical methods form classification and (nonlinear) regression

 

Teaching:

2007  Seminar Biomedizinische Informatik

2008  Software Engineering, Seminar Biomedizinische Informatik

Supervisor of approx. 25 Master's and Bachelor's dissertations

 

German (native language)
English (fluent)

 

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Publications:

Journal articles and theses 

Fritscher KD, Grünerbl A, Hänni M, Suhm N, Hengg C, Schubert R, Trabecular bone analysis in CT and x-ray images of the proximal femur for the assessment of local bone quality, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, accepted for publication

Huber MB, Carballido-Gamio J, Fritscher KD, Schubert R, Haenni M, Hengg C, Majumdar S, Link TM1 Development and Optimization of Texture Discriminators for the Analysis of Trabecular Bone in Proximal Femur Radiographs, submitted to Medical Physics, under review

Leber S, Fritscher KD, Schmoelz W, Schubert R, Statistical model based analysis of bone mineral density of lumbar spine,  International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, accepted for publication, 2009

Fritscher KD, Grünerbl A, Schubert R, 3D image segmentation using combined shape-intensity prior models, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 1, Nr. 6, pp. 341-350, 2007.

Fritscher KD, Schubert R, 3D image segmentation by using statistical deformation models and level sets," International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 1, Nr. 3,pp. 123-135, 2006.

Pilgram R , Schubert R , Fritscher KD, Zwick RH, Schocke MF, Trieb T, Pachinger O, Shape discrimination of healthy and diseased cardiac ventricles using medial representation, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery JCARS, Vol. 1, Nr .1, pp. 33-38

Fritscher KD, Development of a software framework for pre-processing and level-set segmentation of medical image data, Master thesis, IBIA, July 2004

Fritscher KD, Combined Statistical Shape and Intensity Models in Medical Image Segmentation, Institute for Biomedical Image Analysis, PhD thesis, Hall in Tirol: UMIT, 2006.

 

Peer reviewed conference articles 

Schuler B., Fritscher KD, Kuhn V., Eckstein F., Schubert R.; “Using a statistical appearance model to predict the fracture load of the proximal femur”; Accepted for oral presentation at SPIE Medical Imaging; Orlando (USA); Feb. 2009

Fritscher KD, Schuler B, Link T, Eckstein F,  Suhm N, Hänni M, Hengg C,  Schubert R, Prediction of biomechanical parameters of the proximal femur using statistical appearance models and support vector regression, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), New York, 2008, Volume 5241, pp. 568-575

Fritscher KD, Hänni M, Suhm N, Hengg C, Roth T, Kamelger F, Schubert R,  Local analysis of the femoral bone in X-ray images using InShape models, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer Verlag, 2008,  Volume 3, Supplement 1, pp. S 412-413

Schuler B, Fritscher KD, Schubert R, Impact of using diffeomorphic vs. non-diffeomorphic demons registration on generating shape and appearance models, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer Verlag, 2008, Volume 3, Supplement 1

Leber S, Fritscher KD, Schmoelz W, Schubert R, Model based analysis of bone quality of lumbar spine for intervention planning, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer Verlag, 2008, Volume 3, Supplement 1, pp. S 331-332

Steininger P, Fritscher KD, Comparison of Different Metrics for Appearance-model-based 2D/3D-registration with X-ray Images, Proc. BVM, Berlin, April 2008, pp. 122-127

Lopez A, Fritscher KD, Trieb T, Schubert R, Mattes J, 3D Inter-Subject Cardiac Registration Using 4D information, Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, USA, 2008, Vol. 6914, 691413

Lopez A, Fritscher KD, Trieb T, Schubert R, Mattes J, Cardiac 4D image sequence registration . In A. Kuijper, B. Heise, L. Muresan (editors). Proceedings of 32nd Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recogntion (AAPT/OAGM), Challenges in the Biosciences: Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition Aspects, pages 53-62, OCG. 2008. 

Fritscher KD, Leber S, Schmölz W, Schubert R, Level set segmentation of lumbar vertebrae using appearance models, Proc. BVM, Berlin, April 2008, pp. 46-50

Fritscher KD, Schubert R,  4D endocardial segmentation using spatio-temporal appearance models and level sets,  Proc. BVM, Berlin, April 2008, pp. 1-6

Huber MB, Carballido-Gamio J, Fritscher KD, Schubert R, Haenni R, Hengg C, Majumdar S, Link TM, Morphological Texture Analysis of Radiographs of the Proximal Femur- in vitro study using biomechanical strength as a standard of reference, Proc. 8th UC Bioengineering Symposium, San Francisco 2007

Carballido-Gamio J., Huber MB, Fritscher KD, Schubert R., Haenni M., Hengg C., Majumdar S., Link T, Topological Analysis and Spatial Distribution of Apparent Trabecular Bone In Radiographs Correlate to Biomechanical Bone Properties: An In Vitro Study of the Proximal Femur, Proc. 29th ASBMR Honolulu 2007

Schuler B, Fritscher KD, Grünerbl A, Schubert R, Hänni M, Schwieger K, Suhm N, Automatic assessment of femoral bone quality in specific regions of interest using texture features, Proc. CARS 2007, Berlin, Springer Verlag, Berlin

Fritscher KD, Benedikt Schuler, Grünerbl A, Hänni M, Schwieger K, Suhm N, Schubert R, Assessment of Femoral Bone Quality using Co-occurrence Matrices and Adaptive Regions of Interest, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, USA, Vol. 6514, pp. 65141K,  2007

Fritscher KD, Grünerbl A, Schubert R, "InShape" modeling - combined shape-intensity models for level set segmentation, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 1, Supplement 1, pp. 65-67, 2006.

Grünerbl A, Fritscher KD, Blauth M, Kuhn V, Schubert R,  Shape based 3D level-set segmentation of the proximal Femur in CT-Data, BVM 2006, Teil II, pp. 91-95

Mattes J, Steingruber I, Netzer M, Fritscher KD, Kopf H, Jaschke W, Schubert R,  “A robust semi-automatic procedure for motion quantification of aortic stent grafts using point set registration”, BVM 2006

Mattes J, Steingruber I, Netzer M, Fritscher KD, Kopf H, Jaschke W, Schubert R., Quantification of the migration and deformation of abdominal aortic aneurysm stent grafts, SPIE Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, vol. 6144

Fritscher KD , Pilgram R, Schubert R, Automatic 4D endocardium segmentation using hierarchical registration and model guided level set segmentation, Proc. CARS 2006, Berlin, Springer Verlag, pp. 212-217

Fritscher KD, Pilgram R, Schubert R, Automatic 4D cardiac segmentation using level sets, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart FIMH 2005, June 2-4, Barcelona, Spain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2005, pp. 113-122, 2005

Fritscher KD, Schubert R, A software framework for preprocessing and level-set segmentation of medical image data. SPIE Medical Imaging 2005, San Diego, USA, pp.  1742-1752, 2005

Mattes J, Fritscher KD, Schubert R, Steingruber I, Kopf H, Jaschke W, Spatio-temporal changes and migration of stent grafts after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, CARS 2005 22. - 25., Juni 2005, Berlin, Germany, pp. 393-397, 2005.

Pilgram R, Fritscher KD, Schubert R, Zwick RH, Schocke MF, Trieb T, Pachinger O, Shape analysis of healthy and diseased cardiac ventricles using PCA, CARS 2005 22. - 25. Juni 2005, Berlin, Germany, pp.  357-362, 2005.

Pilgram R, Fritscher KD, Zwick RH, Schocke MF, Trieb T, Pachinger O, Schubert R, A way of shape analysis of healthy and diseased cardiac ventrieles, EuroCMR 2005 26. - 28. Mai 2005, Zürich

Pilgram R, Fritscher KD, Schocke MF, Pachinger O, Schubert R, A Pipeline for Semiautomatic Segmentation, Modelling and Shape Analysis for Cardiac Motion of an Individual Heart. GMDS 2004, Innsbruck 

Fritscher KD, Pilgram R, Leuwer R, Habermann Ch, Müller A, Schubert R: Analyzing interindividual shape variations of the middle ear cavity by developing a common shape model based on medial representation. Proceedings CARS, Chicago, USA, pp. 243-248, 2004.

Pilgram R, Fritscher KD, Schubert R, Modeling of the geometric variation and analysis of the right atrium and right ventricle motion of the human heart using PCA. Proceedings CARS, Chicago, USA, pp. 1108-1113, 2004.

Pilgram R, Fritscher KD, Fletcher PT, and Schubert R, "Shape modeling of the multiobject organ heart. In: IAESTED, editor, BioMED, 16-18 February, Innsbruck, ACTA Press, pp. 157-160, 2004.

Pilgram R, Fritscher KD, Fletcher PT, and Schubert R, "Common Shape Modeling and interindividual Variations of the Heart: A Pilot Study," presented at a-telmed 2003, Graz, 2003.

 

Invited lectures 

Fritscher KD, “InShape” modeling - Combined shape-intensity models for level set segmentation, Workshop for Variational and PDE Level Set Methods, Obergurgl, Austria, 1.-3. Sept. 2006

Fritscher KD, Methoden der modellbasierten Bildverarbeitung und -analyse für Diagnostik und Therapie, Medizintechnik Workshop, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany