Florida Atlantic University Professor, Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, a faculty member who works in the departments of mathematics and biomedical science, was awarded the German Founders Award 2006 in the category of “Visionary.”
Peitgen is the first mathematician to ever receive this award, which is for his Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems and Visualization, known as MeVis group. He also is a professor of mathematics and biomedical science at the University of Bremen, in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany.
Peitgen has contributed greatly to the field of breast cancer research. Working with Dr. Kathy Schilling, medical director of breast imaging and intervention at the Center for Breast Care at Boca Raton Community Hospital, they have developed and piloted a unique software platform utilizing computational clinical imaging techniques for the analysis and display of serial-time MRI, which is showing great promise in the early detection and treatment of breast cancer. Peitgen used the mathematical concept of fractals to develop this software. Using this method, a recent study has shown that in over 30 percent of patients there were additional tumors in the same breast, and in almost 10 percent of the patients there were tumors in the opposite breast. These tumors were not previously found using mammography or ultrasound.
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