Harald Scheirich

Staff R&D Engineer

Medical Computing

Kitware DC
Arlington, VA

M.Eng. in Computer Science
Technical University of Vienna

Harald Scheirich is a staff R&D engineer on Kitware’s Medical Computing Team located in Arlington, Virginia. He has more than 25 years of experience practicing and managing software engineering under a variety of platforms and programming languages. He has a long history of applying technical expertise in architecting and developing for multiple platforms, including desktop, mobile applications, and web-based applications.

Harald is currently involved in a variety of medical software projects. He collaborates with others on the Medical Computing Team to design, develop, and improve medical image analysis, visualization, and simulation software. He has been working on iMSTK software architecture and application development with a focus on the integration of iMSTK and Unity, and released the iMSTK Unity asset. He’s contributed to and implemented a variety of surgical simulations that integrate the Unity game engine, iMSTK, and Pulse, the latest being a prototype for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy simulation for the NIH that utilizes the iMSTK Unity integration. He has contributed Qt user interface expertise to the Pulse Explorer, has experience developing for iOS, and is also working for various projects on the Slicer platform.

Prior to joining Kitware, Harald was a principal software engineer for SimQuest. He was the lead for SimQuest’s Medical Simulation and Training Architecture (MSTA), shepherding the standards process from design to a first proof of concept implementation. He was also the lead software architect for the open surgery simulator (OpenSurgSim, OSS) project. For OpenSurgSim, he combined scientific research efforts with sound software engineering and crafted an advanced open source platform that is well-engineered and widely accessible. He also implemented and maintained SimQuest’s Surface Wound Mapping™ software suite, the Exsanguinating Limb Simulator (ElSim™) hemorrhage-control system, the Pandemic Response and Rapid Trauma Training serious games, and worked on a variety of other pertinent projects. During his years at SimQuest, he was responsible for creating technological concepts and overseeing, implementing, and delivering multiple Phase I and II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants.

Harald received his Master of Engineering degree in computer science from the Technical University of Vienna.

Professional Associations & Service

  • Member of the Association of Computing Professionals (ACM)

  • Member of the C++ Meetup in Washington D.C.

Publications

  1. A. Wilson, H. Scheirich, B. Paniagua, R. White, T. Nyugen, and V. Arikatla, "A level set approach to high fidelity interactive bone shaving for virtual training of surgical osteotomies," in Medical Imaging 2022: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 2022. [URL]
  2. J. Webb, A. Bray, H. Scheirich, J. VanPelt, R. Clipp, J. Gerard, and S. Frembgen, "IMPLEMENTATION OF A DYNAMIC AND EXTENSIBLE MECHANICAL VENTILATOR MODEL FOR REAL-TIME PHYSIOLOGICAL SIMULATION," in ANNSIM’22, 2022. [URL]
  3. H. Scheirich, J. Beaubien, R. Metoyer, G. De Novi, and T. Kelliher, "Toward the Development of a Medical Simulation Training Architecture (MSTA)," in nterservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), 2019.
  4. R. Beasley, H. Wang, H. Scheirich, W. Turner, G. Sathyaseelan, P. Novotny, J. Lenoir, and T. Kelliher, "Accelerating Surgical Simulation Development via OpenSurgSim: Burr Hole Trainer," in MMVR, 2016.
  5. T. Kelliher, J. Lenoir, P. Novotny, and H. Scheirich, "Open Surgical Simulation (OSS)-A Community Resource.," in MMVR, 2014.
  6. R. Waddington, T. Reeves, E. Kalin, W. Aggen, M. Moreau, H. Scheirich, J. Heneghan, and S. Cattrell, "Value of a Ludic Simulation in Training First Responders to Manage Blast Incidents," International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 60-72, Apr. 2013.
  7. H. Scheirich, "Stereoscopics: principles and techniques," Technical University Vienna, 1994.

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