Center for medical Image Analysis & Navigation (CIAN)

The Center for medical Image Analysis & Navigation (CIAN), former Medical Image Analysis Center, at the Faculty of Medi­cine was established in late 2007 thanks to the generous endowment from Dr. h.c. Hansjörg Wyss. The founded professor position was then converted into a structural position as part of the Depart­ment of Biomedical Engineering (DBE). CIAN is also part of the MIRACLE II Project.

Led by Prof. Dr. Philippe Cattin, the CIAN Group focuses on image-guided therapy, medical image analysis, tracking systems for robotic laser sur­gery, as well as virtual and augmented reality. To meet the requirements of such a diverse field of research, CIAN gathers four Postdoctoral associates, thirteen PhD-students as well as several Master Students and Interns, forming an interdisciplinary team of engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists. The group is also successfully attract­ing third-party funding from the SNF, CTI, various industrial partners and foundations, and is as well spinning out its own companies to create a versatile, innovative organization on the inter­disciplinary boundaries between fundamental research and clinical applications in Basel.