Optics in the Medical World

Virtual ZEISS Symposium 2021

Welcome to the ZEISS Symposium

What role will optical technologies play in the future of health care?
What are the opportunities and challenges in medical research and practice?
What new solutions are on the horizon?

Optical technologies have always driven innovation in medicine. By extending and complementing these with digital technologies, optical solutions can become even more relevant for targeting the increasing and complex needs of medicine and health care. Therefore, this year's ZEISS Symposium will focus on optics and medicine.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, the symposium will be held online as a virtual conference. On the first day you will have the opportunity to enjoy the keynotes of our prominent speakers and celebrate with us the ZEISS Research Award winner. On the second day you will be able to participate in one of three scientific sessions.
The participation is free of charge.

ZEISS Symposium “Optics in the Medical World”

Date: 8-9 June 2021

Virtual Event

Contact us

zeiss -symposium @zeiss .com

Why participate?

Learn about optics' broad role in medicine both now and in the future

Gain insights from leading experts (keynotes, panel discussion)

Discuss needs and emerging photonics solutions in medicine with peers from academia, industry and health care.

Expand your professional network

Celebrate the ZEISS Research Award winner

Keynote Speakers

Jonathan Sorger

Intuitive Surgical Inc.

How advances in visualization have contributed to intelligent (robotic) surgery

Eva Sevick-Muraca

University of Texas at Houston

Discovery in the translation of diagnostic, near-infrared fluorescence lymphatic imaging

Vasilis Ntziachristos

Helmholtz Center Munich/TU Munich

Listening to light: label-free optoacoustic imaging of biomolecules

Invited Speakers

Luis Arnaut

University of Coimbra

Rudolf M. Verdaasdonk

University of Twente

Paola Taroni

Politecnico di Milano

Stephen Boppart

University of Illinois

Monika Ritsch-Marte

Medical University of Innsbruck

Qingming Luo

Hainan University

The highlight of this symposium will be the presentation of the 2020 ZEISS Research Award and the Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers together with a special lecture by: Helmut Dosch, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY / University Hamburg

ZEISS Research Award

Symposium at a Glance

Agenda

June 8, 2021

15.00 – 15.15 CET	Welcome and Introduction
15.15 – 16.15 CET	Plenary Keynotes: Eva M. Sevick, University of Texas Health Science Center Jonathan Sorger, Intuitive Surgical Inc. Vasilis Ntziachristos, Helmholtz Center Munich
16.15 – 16.45 CET	Keynote Discussions
16.45 – 17.20 CET	Networking
17.30 – 18.45 CET	ZEISS Award Ceremony Festive Speech: Helmut Dosch, DESY Hamburg Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers ZEISS Research Award

June 9, 2021

14.20 – 14.30 CET

Welcome and Introduction

14.30 – 16.30 CET

Scientific Sessions

Advanced Visualization and Automation in
Surgery and Light-Based Therapies
Optical Image Acquisition, Sensing and
Interpretation for Diagnostics
Emerging Translational Photonics Life Science
Research Topics

16.40 – 17.30 CET

Panel Discussion & Wrap-up

Program Committee

Jürgen Mlynek (Chair), Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Katarina Svanberg, University of Lund, Sweden
James G. Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Brian Pogue, Dartmouth College, United States
Michael Baumann, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
Peter Hegemann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Michael Kempe, ZEISS, Germany

Sessions

You have the opportunity to attend one of three scientific sessions. In order to submit a contribution to one of the sessions, please register for the event.

1. Advanced Visualization and Automation in Surgery and Light-Based Therapies

This session will cover the following topics:

precision and minimally invasive surgery
automated and robot-assisted surgery
laser cutting, shaping, and photocoagulation
photo-dynamic and other localized treatments
visual therapeutic stimuli
ocular implants

2. Optical Image Acquisition, Sensing and Interpretation for Diagnostics

This session will cover the following topics:

optical imaging modalities (in-vivo, ex-vivo)
mobile / point-of-care imaging
optical in-vitro diagnostics
visual stimuli for diagnostics
AI for image reconstruction and interpretation

3. Emerging Translational Photonics Life Science Research Topics

This session will cover the following topics:

optogenetics
genetic analytics
brain functional imaging
photonics-supported cell-based therapies
liquid biopsy using light
optics-enabled tissue engineering and printing
organ-on-a-chip

What's the ZEISS Symposium about?

The ZEISS Symposium is held every two years, starting in 2016, following the same format. It is intended as a platform for optics experts to identify trends and research requirements in this field. Around 200 international scientists and leading industry representatives networked on different topics like "Optics in the Digital World" or "Optics in the Quantum World". The results are published in a series of additional white papers.

The ZEISS Research Award Ceremony will be held following the topical workshops at the ZEISS Symposium. The award will honor outstanding achievements in international research. Many of the 26 award winners have gone on to receive other important distinctions, and four of them have even won the Nobel Prize.

You are interested in previous ZEISS Symposia?

Have a look.

Optics in the Quantum World

18 April 2018

Quantum effects are in use since the 20th century and have led to market shaping innovations like semiconductor electronics and lasers. In the 21st century, quantum technology developments focus on the controlled quantum state of individual or coupled systems. While this quantum technology is still in the research stage, it offers an enormous potential and a number of initiatives worldwide have been formed to foster the technology and its commercial potential.

Some quantum technologies might prove to be of particular importance in optics and were in the focus of our symposium:

Quantum computers are currently under fierce development and can be of considerable interest in the fields of Pattern recognition, machine learning and optimization problems.
Quantum Simulation offers opportunities in the development of materials.
Quantum sensors and metrology uses quantum effects to measure physical parameters with highest accuracy and allows reliable and robust measurements with direct reference to fundamental standards.
Quantum-Enhanced Imaging uses the quantum properties of the light to improve the optical image or to achieve new imaging modalities allowing e.g. to beat both the shot noise limit and the resolution limit.

The focus of this topical meeting was the interrelation of the emerging applications and technologies. The meeting was organized in a manner to allow intensive discussions and a fruitful exchange of ideas with a single keynote session and subsequent workshop-style presentations and discussions compiling whitepapers on the research needs of the addressed topics.

The results were the basis for a panel discussion of high ranking representatives of industry and academia working out the focus fields with need for joint action.

Specialized in scope and restricted in number of participants the topical meeting organized in the heartland of Germany’s optics industry gave the opportunity to easily establish contacts and to initiate new research collaborations and business relations.

Topical Workshops

Quantum Computing and Communication

Keynote on „Quantum Computing - Towards Useful Applications“ by Heike Riel, IBM Research Switzerland. E.g. general purpose quantum computers, quantum error correction, quantum algorithms, quantum repeaters, quantum cryptography, encoding mechanisms.

Quantum Sensors and Metrology

Keynote on „Quantum Optics and Information Science in Multi-Dimensional Photonics Networks“ by Christine Silberhorn, University of Paderborn. E.g. quantum entanglement and applications like magnetometers, atomic clocks, quantum lithography and quantum enhanced imaging.

Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Jörg Wrachtrup, University of Stuttgart Image Registration and Segmentation - Object and Anomaly Detection - Deep Learning.

Panel Discussion

Documentation

Grafic Recording

ZEISS Symposium "Optics in the Quantum World" 2018

Quantum Question

What quantum product do you expect to be using in 2030?

Facts & figures

White Papers

Workshop Summaries

Presentation Slides

Optical Quantum Communication with Quantitative Advantage
Norbert Lütkenhaus
From Einstein’s LichtQuanten to Wheeler’s Delayed Choice Experiment: Wave-particle Duality for a Single Photon
Alain Aspect
Optics challenges in atom-based QT Sensors
Kai Bongs
Quantum optics and information science in multi-dimensional photonics networks
Christine Silberhorn
Optical cavities and trapped ions: building blocks for quantum networks
Tracy Northup

Optics in the Digital World

23 June 2016

Around 200 international experts discussed trends in optics and photonics at the ZEISS Symposium 'Optics in the Digital World.' The keynote speakers were Laura Waller from the University of California, Berkeley, Ingmar Posner from Oxford University and David Bohn from Microsoft. All three outlined the requirements to be met in the future by research. These are being shaped by increasing digitization and Big Data applications and are determining trends in optical technologies. These include computer-aided image processing, processing large datasets in optics, obtaining information from data, visualization for augmented and virtual reality scenarios (AR/VR) as well as computer vision and machine learning.

The Symposium in Oberkochen networked international scientists and leading representatives from industry. Meeting in the ZEISS Forum, the Symposium participants not only presented the current state of technology, but also identified and worked out where there is need for action in strategic research fields in the coming years. As future-oriented technologies, optics and photonics shape our society, science and culture.

Other new important areas include communications, sensors, illumination and medical technology. Digitization enables the manufacture of microchips with ever-smaller structures and therefore more computing power with increasingly small dimensions. Another exciting field of innovation is immersive microscopy with the newly available VR/AR scenarios for digitized Big Data visualizations using VR headsets, data gloves and other devices. The Symposium served as a blueprint for the digital world of tomorrow, actively advancing light technologies.

Optics in the digital world is going to change how we gather, process and visualize information. The transformation has just begun, driven by a strong interaction of digital and optical technologies. While optical imaging is a key technology for data generation subject to digital evaluation, it is simultaneously affected and changed by powerful image processing techniques in the field of computational optics.

Cloud technology enables information extraction, visualization, pre-processing and transmission of large and many data sets from instruments and provides platforms for sharing and processing of data from space-time distributed inputs. Visualization systems for augmented (AR) and virtual (VR) reality are currently undergoing fierce development, with applications just emerging.

Workshop: Computational Imaging

Ptychography and Lightfield Methods / Digital Microscopy

Laura Waller, UC Berkeley

Workshop: Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Image Registration and Segmentation - Object and Anomaly Detection - Deep Learning

Ingmar Posner, Oxford University

Workshop: Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Image Registration and Segmentation - Object and Anomaly Detection - Deep Learning

David Bohn, Microsoft

Panel Discussion

Documentation

ZEISS Symposium 2016

White Papers

Computational Imaging
CI is the systematic enhancement of computer-aided imaging by dealing with algorithms, sensors, and optics as a single entity and optimizing them.
Computer Vision and Machine Learning
CV and ML have seen a tremendous evolution within the last 15 years. One of the main driver of this success is the application of machine learning methods to basic level computer vision tasks.
Large Data in Optics and Virtual / Augmented Reality
Advances in optical technology, computational hardware as well as algorithms have led to a largely growing interest in AR and VR over the past few years.

Abstracts
Computational Imaging

The benefits of coherence for quality control: Trends and breakthroughs in fast digital holography
Karsten Buse (Frauenhofer IPM, Freiburg)
Higher-order Total Variation Reconstruction for Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM)
Laurène Donati (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Computational aspects of super-resolution microscopy
Rainer Heintzmann (Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien)
A Computer Graphics Perspective on Inverse Light Transport
Matthias B. Hullin (University of Bonn)
Digital Wavefront Sensing with High Speed Optical Coherence Tomography
Rainer A. Leitgeb (Medical University of Vienna)
A Practical Inverse Problem Approach to Transport-of-Intensity Equation for Phase Imaging
Michael Unser (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Multi-aperture Imaging systems with segmented field of view
Frank C. Wippermann (Frauenhofer IOF, Jena)

Abstracts
Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Deep Neural Networks for Biomedical Image Analysis
Dan Claudiu Ciresan (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Learning Bilateral Filters
Peter Gehler (MPI Tübingen)
Learning to Deblur
Michael Hirsch (Max-Planck-Institut Tübingen)
Morphological restoration: A fast alternative to deconvolution of 3D images of cells
Anna Medyukhina (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans-Knöll-Institute (HKI), Jena)
Stereo Ground Truth with Error Bars
Rahul Nair (Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing)
Cellular morphodynamics
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Institut Pasteur)
Learning from examples in optics
Demetri Psaltis (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Abstracts
Large Data in Optics and Virtual / Augmented Reality

Automated Quantitative Microscopy in Materials Research and Quality Assurance
Timo Bernthaler (Materials Research Institute, Aalen University)
Data-driven Visual Computing: The Strength of Weak Models
Martin Fuchs (University of Stuttgart)
Complex microoptics by 3D printing for massively parallel imaging
Harald Giessen (University of Stuttgart)
ZEISS Smart Optics - Innovating at Startup Speed
Ersun Kartal (ZEISS)
Industrial Perspective on AR Data Glasses
Werner Schreiber (Volkswagen AG)
Methods of Imaging through Scattering Media
Peter Török (Imperial College London)
Advanced OLED microdisplays for near-to-eye applications
Uwe Vogel (Frauenhofer FEP, Dresden)
Presentation "Advanced OLED microdisplays for near-to-eye applications"
Uwe Vogel (Frauenhofer FEP, Dresden)

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