On February 2, 2016, members of the project group co-founded the SME INTELITEH, which at the end of 2016 had one employee. Among others, it is planned that the company will commercialize products and services in the field of medicine.
F.20 Company spin off
Already in the phase of preparing a paper for publication and especially before introducing a method, that is part of image guided therapy, into clinical practice, the method has to be validated and compared to existing methods. Objective and thorough validation requires standardization of the validation methodology, which includes design of validation image data sets, definition of corresponding “ground truth” and its accuracy, and design of validation protocol and metrics. Currently no standardized validation methodology exists for validating 3D-2D registration algorithms to be used in endovascular interventions. Within this project we have, therefore, developed such a standardized registration validation methodology for brain vasculature. The methodology is described a journal paper (see 6.4 above) and at: http://lit.fe.uni-lj.si/tools.php?lang=eng (Gold standard for 3D-2D registration of cerebral angiograms.)
F.31 Development of standards
Within this project we acquired important knowledge (some of which has been presented in peer reviewed journals and at international conferences) which, among others, led to the foundation of the SME company INTELITEH. We estimate that in the field of image-guided endovascular procedures we have reached technology readiness level (TRL) 4-5. It is planned, that further R&D to reachable TRL 9 and commercialization will be carried out by INTELITEH.
F.19 Knowledge that leads to a company spin off
Membership on editorial boards of peer reviewed journals, which is a good indicator of the quality of a researcher, is of high importance for the visibility and respect of a researcher, his institution and country within the international research community. In this respect, F. Pernuš is on the editorial board of IEEE Tr Medical Imaging (COBISS.SI-ID: 8757509), while T. Vrtovec is on the editorial board of Image Analysis & Stereology (COBISS.SI-ID: 106479104) and Journal of Medical Imaging (COBISS.SI-ID: 11064916). Without doubt, results, like the ones achieved within this project, stimulate invitations to editorial boards and programme committees of international conferences.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Two PhD students worked on this project. Uroš Mitrović defended his thesis in 2014, while Tim Jerman will defend his thesis in 2017. Both PhD students published a number of high-quality journal papers. Dr. Mitrović is successfully using the diverse knowledge acquired during his PhD studies in a high-tech SME CosyLab.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
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