News Medical Image Processing & AI

16 September 2025 | Franz Pfeiffer, Professor of Biomedical Physics at TUM and Director of MIBE, specializes in biomedical X-ray physics. For his outstanding contributions to science, technology, and research education, he is awarded the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics by the European Academy of Sciences.

10 September 2025 | Patients have more confidence in autonomous robotic ultrasound systems when an avatar guides them through the process. This was discovered by Prof. Nassir Navab from TUM. The virtual agent explains what it is doing, answers questions and can speak any language.

25 July 2025 | Artificial intelligence (AI) is also used in the medical field, to evaluate data or search for patterns in large amounts of data. Researchers at Technical University of Munich (TUM) are working on making these human-AI collaborations safe, reliable and efficient.

14 July 2025 | The European Research Council (ERC) supports scientists, who want to develop marketable innovations based on their research results, with Proof of Concept Grants. Researchers at TUM have now been awarded six of these grants, including two MIBE PIs: Prof. Gordon Cheng and Prof. Fabian Theis.

10 July 2025 | A new connectomics research center will be established on the TUM campus in Garching, which will focus on the comprehensive mapping and analysis of all neuronal connections in the brain.

27 June 2025 | Construction has officially begun on the new Center for Digital Medicine and Health (ZDMG) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), marked by a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony. The interdisciplinary center, which will bring together medical research, artificial intelligence, and data science under one roof, is being built on the campus of the TUM University Hospital Rechts der Isar.

12 June 2025 | The ability to precisely predict movements is essential not only for humans and animals, but also for many AI applications — from autonomous driving to robotics. Researchers at TUM have now discovered that artificial neural networks can perform this task better when trained with biological data from early visual system development.

23 January 2025 | Our bodies are made up of around 75 billion cells. But what function does each individual cell perform and how greatly do a healthy person’s cells differ from those of someone with a disease? To draw conclusions, enormous quantities of data must be analyzed and interpreted. For this purpose, machine learning methods are applied. Researchers at TUM and Helmholtz Munich have now tested self-supervised learning as a promising approach for testing 20 million cells or more.

16 December 2024 | Quick action after a stroke hits can significantly reduce permanent damage. However, it is crucial to determine the exact time of the event to decide on the best treatment. A research team, including expertise from TUM, has developed an algorithm that can determine the timing of a stroke with exceptional precision, outperforming current approaches by a factor of two.

11 December 2024 | Computer scientist and AI researcher Prof. Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025. The professor of AI in Medicine and Healthcare at TUM is being honored for his research on AI-assisted medical imaging. The most important German research prize is endowed with 2.5 million euros by the DFG.