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Overview

Jan Egger is affiliated with the University of Graz in Austria and has a multidisciplinary research profile spanning medicine, computer science, and engineering. Their work predominantly intersects with radiology, biomedical engineering, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and surgery.

The research output includes numerous publications covering advanced topics such as radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, anatomy and medical technology, AI applications in cancer detection, and COVID-19 diagnosis using artificial intelligence. Other central themes include medical image segmentation techniques and the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare and education.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Jens Kleesiek, Jianning Li, Christina Gsaxner, Antonio Pepe, and Behrus Puladi.

Jan Egger has contributed to several scholarly venues, with a strong presence in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Medical Image Analysis
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Notable recent papers by or associated with Egger include:

  • Medical deep learning-A systematic meta-review, 2022, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • ChatGPT in healthcare: A taxonomy and systematic review, 2024, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • CellViT: Vision Transformers for precise cell segmentation and classification, 2024, Medical Image Analysis
  • A review on the applications of virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality in surgical simulation: an extension to different kinds of surgery, 2020, Expert Review of Medical Devices
  • ChatGPT in Healthcare: A Taxonomy and Systematic Review, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Jan Egger has published books through Springer Science+Business Media, including focused works in cranial implant design, aortic vessel tree segmentation, and medical image analysis. Titles include:

  • Towards the Automatization of Cranial Implant Design in Cranioplasty II (2021)
  • Towards the Automatization of Cranial Implant Design in Cranioplasty (2020)
  • Segmentation of the Aorta. Towards the Automatic Segmentation, Modeling, and Meshing of the Aortic Vessel Tree from Multicenter Acquisition (2024)
  • Medical Applications with Disentanglements (2023)
  • Shape in Medical Imaging (2023)

Best Publications

  • GBM Volumetry using the 3D Slicer Medical Image Computing Platform

    Jan Egger;Tina Kapur;Andriy Fedorov;Steve Pieper

  • Development of a surgical navigation system based on augmented reality using an optical see-through head-mounted display

    Xiaojun Chen;Lu Xu;Yiping Wang;Huixiang Wang

  • A review on the applications of virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality in surgical simulation: an extension to different kinds of surgery.

    Abel J Lungu;Wout Swinkels;Luc Claesen;Puxun Tu

  • Medical Deep Learning - A systematic Meta-Review.

    Jan Egger;Christina Gsaxner;Antonio Pepe;Jianning Li

  • HTC Vive MeVisLab integration via OpenVR for medical applications.

    Jan Egger;Markus Gall;Juergen Wallner;Pedro Boechat

  • Fiber Tractography Based on Diffusion Tensor Imaging Compared With High-Angular-Resolution Diffusion Imaging With Compressed Sensing: Initial Experience

    Daniela Kuhnt;Miriam H A Bauer;Jan Egger;Mirco Richter

  • Pituitary Adenoma Volumetry with 3D Slicer

    Jan Egger;Jan Egger;Tina Kapur;Christopher Nimsky;Ron Kikinis

  • Detection, segmentation, simulation and visualization of aortic dissections: A review.

    Antonio Pepe;Jianning Li;Malte Rolf-Pissarczyk;Christina Gsaxner

  • 3-T MR-guided brachytherapy for gynecologic malignancies.

    Tina Kapur;Jan Egger;Antonio Damato;Ehud J. Schmidt

  • Robust Detection and Segmentation for Diagnosis of Vertebral Diseases Using Routine MR Images

    Dženan Zukić;Aleš Vlasák;Jan Egger;Daniel Hořínek

  • Square-Cut: A Segmentation Algorithm on the Basis of a Rectangle Shape

    Jan Egger;Jan Egger;Tina Kapur;Thomas Dukatz;Malgorzata Kolodziej

  • A Marker-Less Registration Approach for Mixed Reality–Aided Maxillofacial Surgery: a Pilot Evaluation

    Antonio Pepe;Gianpaolo Francesco Trotta;Peter Mohr-Ziak;Peter Mohr-Ziak;Christina Gsaxner

  • Nugget-cut: a segmentation scheme for spherically- and elliptically-shaped 3D objects

    Jan Egger;Miriam H. A. Bauer;Daniela Kuhnt;Barbara Carl

  • A review on computer-aided design and manufacturing of patient-specific maxillofacial implants.

    Afaque Rafique Memon;Enpeng Wang;Junlei Hu;Jan Egger

  • Integration of the OpenIGTLink Network Protocol for Image-Guided Therapy with the Medical Platform MeVisLab

    Jan Egger;Junichi Tokuda;Laurent Chauvin;Bernd Freisleben

  • Automatic skull defect restoration and cranial implant generation for cranioplasty.

    Jianning Li;Gord von Campe;Antonio Pepe;Christina Gsaxner

  • AVT: Multicenter aortic vessel tree CTA dataset collection with ground truth segmentation masks

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  • Inside-Out Instrument Tracking for Surgical Navigation in Augmented Reality

    Christina Gsaxner;Jianning Li;Antonio Pepe;Dieter Schmalstieg

  • Computer-aided implant design for the restoration of cranial defects

    Xiaojun Chen;Lu Xu;Xing Li;Jan Egger

  • Clinical evaluation of semi-automatic open-source algorithmic software segmentation of the mandibular bone: Practical feasibility and assessment of a new course of action.

    Jürgen Wallner;Kerstin Hochegger;Xiaojun Chen;Irene Mischak

  • Cube-cut: vertebral body segmentation in MRI-data through cubic-shaped divergences.

    Robert Schwarzenberg;Bernd Freisleben;Christopher Nimsky;Jan Egger

  • Aorta Segmentation for Stent Simulation

    Jan Egger;Bernd Freisleben;Randolph Setser;Rahul Renapuraar

  • A Fast Vessel Centerline Extraction Algorithm for Catheter Simulation

    J. Egger;Z. Mostarkic;S. Grosskopf;B. Freisleben

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Freisleben
Bernd Freisleben Philipp University of Marburg
Dieter Schmalstieg
Dieter Schmalstieg University of Stuttgart
Tina Kapur
Tina Kapur Brigham and Women's Hospital
Andreas Kolb
Andreas Kolb University of Siegen
Ron Kikinis
Ron Kikinis Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bernhard Kainz
Bernhard Kainz Imperial College London
Harini Veeraraghavan
Harini Veeraraghavan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nassir Navab
Nassir Navab Technical University of Munich
Alexandra J. Golby
Alexandra J. Golby Brigham and Women's Hospital

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