Needle tracking algorithm for surgical navigation live imaging techniques

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About Demcon

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Your assignment

DEMCON LS&H develops high-tech solutions for minimally invasive interventions, which reduce the burden on patients and accelerate recovery. These systems enable precise control during procedures, making interventions more effective and efficient. By integrating advanced technology, we ensure that medical interventions are not only safer but also more patient-friendly.

You will contribute to the development of a minimally invasive system that assists physicians in positioning and tracking a needle during procedures. Your work will focus on improving real-time needle tracking within CT scan images and enhancing the existing software, including its GUI. This involves integrating advanced imaging techniques and real-time data processing to support accurate and efficient needle placement.

Your main tasks include:

• Setting up and optimizing imaging analysis algorithms
• Enhancing and integrating the needle tracking system within the imaging framework
• Exploring and evaluating 3D visualization options for the tracking system
• Enhancing the current software by improving the GUI and optimizing the existing C# and Python codebase for functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Validating the performance of the tracking system
• Preparing interim and final reports of your findings
• Performing experiments for testing purposes

Your growth, our pride!

DEMCON offers a dynamic, growing and innovative organization. With our complex projects and multidisciplinary teams we offer you a lot of challenge and variety in this position. Thanks to enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues, our working atmosphere is good, open and informal, with a flat organizational structure. You will have a regular supervisor to coach you and all mutual wishes and expectations are clearly agreed upon before the start of the assignment. Furthermore, the standard working method gives you the opportunity, in a motivating working atmosphere, to act within the team. So you get a good impression of what it is like to be part of the world of DEMCON.