Dr. Georg Spinner

Work at ZHAW

Management role

Head, research group Medical Image Analysis & Data Modeling

Position at the ZHAW

Lecturer

www.zhaw.ch/icls/computational-health/en/

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Evidence-based medicine
Clinical prediction models, medical statistics, machine learning

Applied probabilistic methods
Bayesian inference, Bayesian networks, causal inference

Medical imaging
Magnetic resonance imaging, radiology, deep-learning

Professional milestones

2019-now Lecturer and research project leader, ZHAW Wädenswil
2019 PostDoc, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich
2019 PostDoc/Intern Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School teaching hospital), Boston, USA
2018, 2019 Intern, University Hospital Zurich, Klinik Hirslanden, Spital Maennedorf, Psychiatrische Universitaetsklinik Zurich & Triemli municipal hospital
2013 Intern, SwissRe, Munich, Germany
2012 Visiting graduate student, Princeton University, USA
2012 Intern, ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden-Daettwil
2011 Intern, Patent & Trademark Attorneys Isler & Pedrazzini, Zurich
2009, 2011 Tutor, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich

Educational background

2023 MD (Dr. med.), University of Zurich
2021 Swiss medical licensing examination, University of Zurich
2021 MSc medicine, University of Zurich
2019 PhD (Dr. sc. ETH), Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich
2017 BSc medicine, University of Zurich
2012 Master's thesis physics, Princeton University, USA
2012 MSc physics, ETH Zurich
2010 BSc physics, ETH Zurich

Membership of networks

• ZHAW Digital Health Lab
• ZHAW Datalab
• International Stroke Genetics Consortium
• ZHAW Digital

Projects

• Stroke DynamiX / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Digital Health Zurich – A practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation / Team member / Project ongoing
• Modeling of multicentric and dynamic stroke health data / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks / Project leader / Project completed
• Evaluation von Methoden der Bayes'schen Modellierung für die Digitale Gesundheit / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Delucchi, Matteo; Spinner, Georg; Scutari, Marco; Bijlenga, Philippe; Morel, Sandrine; Friedrich, Christoph M.; Furrer, Reinhard; Hirsch, Sven,

  2022.

  Bayesian network analysis reveals the interplay of intracranial aneurysm rupture risk factors.

  Computers in Biology and Medicine.

  147(105740).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105740

• Morel, Sandrine; Hostettler, Isabel C.; Spinner, Georg R.; Bourcier, Romain; Pera, Joanna; Meling, Torstein; Alg, Varinder; Houlden, Henry; Bakker, Mark; van’t Hof, Femke; Rinkel, Gabriel; Foroud, Tatiana; Lai, Dongbing; Moomaw, Charles; Worrall, Bradford; Caroff, Jildaz; Constant-dits-Beaufils, Pacôme; Karakachoff, Matilde; Rimbert, Antoine; Rouchaud, Aymeric; Gaal-Paavola, Emilia; Kaukovalta, Hanna; Kivisaari, Riku; Laakso, Aki; Jahromi, Behnam; Tulamo, Riikka; Friedrich, Christoph; Dauvillier, Jerome; Hirsch, Sven; Isidor, Nathalie; Kulcsàr, Zolt; Lövblad, Karl; Martin, Olivier; Machi, Paolo; Mendes Pereira, Vitor; Rüfenacht, Daniel; Schaller, Karl; Schilling, Sabine; Slowik, Agnieszka; Jaaskelainen, Juha; von und zu Fraunberg, Mikael; Jiménez-Conde, Jordi; Cuadrado-Godia, Elisa; Soriano-Tárraga, Carolina; Millwood, Iona; Walters, Robin; The @neurIST project; The ICAN Study Group; Genetics and Observational Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (GOSH) Study Investigators; International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC); Kim, Helen; Redon, Richard; Ko, Nerissa; Rouleau, Guy; Lindgren, Antti; Niemelä, Mika; Desal, Hubert; Woo, Daniel; Broderick, Joseph; Werring, David; Ruigrok, Ynte; Bijlenga, Philippe,

  2022.

  Intracranial aneurysm classifier using phenotypic factors : an international pooled analysis.

  Journal of Personalized Medicine.

  12(9), pp. 1410.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12091410

• Spinner, Georg Ralph; Federau, Christian; Kozerke, Sebastian,

  2021.

  Bayesian inference using hierarchical and spatial priors for intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging in the brain : analysis of cancer and acute stroke.

  Medical Image Analysis.

  73(102144).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2021.102144

• Delucchi, Matteo; Spinner, Georg Ralph; Scutari, Marco; Bijlenga, Philippe; Morel, Sandrine; Friedrich, Christoph M.; Hirsch, Sven,

  2022.

  Bayesian networks to disentangle the interplay of intracranial aneurysm rupture risk factors [paper].

  In:

  Nithiarasu, Perumal; Vergara, Christian, eds.,

  CMBE 2022 : 7th International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering.

  7th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE22), Milan, Italy, 27-29 June 2022.

  Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering.

  pp. 22-25.

• Spinner, Georg R.; Delucchi, Matteo; Morel, Sandrine; Bijlenga, Philippe; Hirsch, Sven,

  2022.

  Survival analysis of intracranial aneurysm rupture to study the influence of clinical risk factors : towards a dynamic disease model [paper].

  In:

  Nithiarasu, Perumal; Vergara, Christian, eds.,

  CMBE 2022 : 7th International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering.

  7th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE22), Milan, Italy, 27-29 June 2022.

  Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering.

  pp. 72-75.

• Suter, Susanne; Spinner, Georg; Hoelz, Bianca; Rey, Sofia; Thanabalasingam, Sujeanthraa; Eckstein, Jens; Hirsch, Sven,

  2022.

  Visualization and analysis of wearable health data from COVID-19 patients.

  arXiv.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24219

• Spinner, Georg; Gerber, Nicole,

  2022.

  Bayesian network analysis for data-driven decision support.

  TRANSFER Special.

  pp. 20.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25931

• Spinner, Georg; Gerber, Nicole,

  2022.

  Datengetriebene Entscheidungsunterstützung mittels Bayes’scher Netzwerke.

  TRANSFER Spezial.

  pp. 20.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25930

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

Spinner GR, Stoeck CT, Mathez L, von Deuster C, Federau C, and Kozerke S. On probing intravoxel incoherent motion in the heart - spin‐echo versus stimulated‐echo DWI. Magn. Res. Med. 2019; 10.1002/mrm.27777

Wyss M, Manoliu A, Marcon M, Spinner G, Lüchinger R, Prüssmann KP, Andreisek G. Clinical Magnetic Resonance imaging of the Knee at 7.0 Tesla; Optimization of rat Suppression. Investigative Radiology 2018; doi:.10.1097/RLI.0000000000000523

Spinner GR, Schmidt JFM, von Deuster C, Federau C, Stoeck CT and Kozerke S. Enhancing Intravoxel incoherent Motion Parameter Mapping in the Brain Using k-b PCA. NMR Biomed 2018:31(12):e4008. doi: 10.1002/nbm.4008

Spinner GR, von Deuster C, Tezcan KC, Stoeck CT and Kozerke S. Bayesian intravoxel incoherent motion parameter mapping in the human heart. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2017;19(1):85. doi: 10.1186/s12968-017-0391-1

Kuhn FP, Spinner G, Del Grande F, Wyss M, Piccirelli M, Erni S, Pfister P, Ho M, BR Sah, Filli L, Ettlin DA, Gallo LM, Andreisek G and Manoliu A. MR imaging of the temporomandibular joint: comparison between acquisitions at 7.0 T using dielectric pads and 3.0 T. Dentomaxillofacial Radiology 2016;46(1):20160280. doi:10.1259/dmfr.20160280

Manoliu A, Spinner G, Wyss M, Filli L, Erni S, Ettlin DA, Ulbrich EJ, Kuhn FP, Gallo LM and Andreisek G. Comparison of a 32-channel head coil and a 2-channel surface coil for MR imaging of the temporomandibularjoint at 3.0 T. Dentomaxillofacial Radiology 2016;45(4):20150420. doi: 10.1259/dmfr.20150420

Manoliu A, Spinner G, Wyss M, Ettlin DA, Nanz D, Kuhn FP, Gallo LM and Andreisek G. Magnetic resonance imaging of the temporomandibularjoint at 7.0 T using high-permittivity dielectric pads: a feasibility study. Investigative Radiology 2015;50(12):843-849. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000196

Manoliu A, Spinner G, Wyss M, Erni S, Ettlin DA, Nanz D, Ulbrich EJ, Gallo LM and Andreisek G. Quantitative and qualitative comparison of MR imaging of the temporomandibularjoint at 1.5 and 3.0 T using an optimized high-resolution protocol. Dentomaxillofacial Radiology 2015;45(1):20150240. doi: 10.1259/dmfr.20150240

Hangauer A, Spinner G, Nikodem M and Wysocki G. High frequency modulation capabilities and quasi single-sideband emission from a quantum cascade laser. Optics express 2014;22(19):23439-23455. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.023439

Hangauer A, Spinner G, Nikodem M and Wysocki G. Chirped laser dispersion spectroscopy using a directly modulated quantum
cascade laser. Applied Physics Letters 2013;103(19):191107. doi:10.1063/1.4829036



Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed, nur Erstautor

Spinner GR, Stoeck CT, Mathez L, von Deuster C, Federau C and Kozerke S. On Probing Intravoxel Incoherent Motion in the Heart using Spin Echo versus Stimulated Echo Diffusion Weighted Imaging. Proceedings of the 28th Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Kanada, 2019

Spinner G, Schmidt JFM and Kozerke S. Accelerating Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Mapping in the Brain using k-bpp PCA. Proceedings of the 27th Meeting of ISMRM, Paris, Frankreich, 2018

Spinner G, von Deuster C, Oebel S, Stoeck CT, Manka R and Kozerke S. Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Model in the Heart of Patients Under Adenosine Induced Stress. Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, USA, 2017

Spinner G, von Deuster C, Stoeck CT and Kozerke S. Validation of the intravoxel incoherent Motion Model in the Healthy Human Heart using Black-Blood Preparation. Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of ISMRM, Honolulu, USA, 2017

Spinner G, Schmidt JFM and Kozerke S. Accelerating Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Imaging of the Brain Using k-b PCA. Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of ISMRM, Singapur, 2016

Spinner G, von Deuster C, Stoeck CT and Kozerke S. Bayesian Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Imaging to Map Perfusion in the Human Heart. Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of ISMRM, Singapur, 2016

Spinner G, von Deuster C, Stoeck CT and Kozerke S. Bayesian Intravoxel Incoherent motion Parameter Mapping in the Human Heart. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of ESMRMB, Wien, Österreich, 2016

Spinner G, Schmidt JFM and Kozerke S. Accelerating Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MRI using k-b PCA. Proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of ESMRMB, Edinburgh, UK, 2015

Other publications

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9640-8155

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