"The Ruhr-Centre of Competence for Medical Engineering (Kompetenzzentrum Medizintechnik Ruhr: KMR e.V.) in Bochum, which comprises partners from research, development, enterprises and hospitals, is a synonym for ""Competence in Ultrasound"".The engineering and medical profile of the KMR is characterized by the topics and projects of diagnostic imaging in medicine. The main topics are image based tissue diagnosis using ultrasound and multimodal non-ionizing methods for the diagnostics of cancer and vascular diseases as well as the application in surgical navigation. In addition to high-frequency sonography, there is a strong emphasis on real-time strain imaging and elastography. Furthermore, the center’s competence in the field of ""computer vision"" is used for novel concepts in real time ultrasound imaging, especially applied to moving and shape changing objects."