News Medical Image Processing & AI

  • Prof. Dr. Gil Gregor Westmeyer

    Electron microscopy: Nano-reporter proteins make invisible processes visible

    Genetically encoded nano-barcodes

    18 April 2023 | Electron microscopy: Nano-reporter proteins make invisible processes visible

  • Prof. Gordon Cheng is researching how insights from robotics and neuroscience can be combined - in order to build better robots and to help humans. Funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, he now wants to develop an exoskeleton for people with paralysis.

    Project STROLL: Soft exoskeleton for people with paralysis

    ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Dr. Cheng

    30 March 2023 | Prof. Gordon Cheng is awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project STROLL. He wants to develop a soft exoskeleton for people with paralysis.

  • PD Dr. Tobias Lasser (left) and Dr. Krammer work on the new algorithm FusionM4Net for the classification of skin lesions.

    Deep learning algorithm with improved diagnostic accuracy

    New algorithm for classification of skin lesions

    14 January 2022 | A research team has developed an algorithm that classifies skin lesions more accurately than previous algorithms by using an improved data fusion process.

  • Co-author Prof. Burkhard Rost in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. Image: Juli Eberle / ediundsepp / TUM

    The proteins of Covid-19

    15 September 2021 | Machine learning assisted structure analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 virus tactics

  • Daniel Rueckert is a professor for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine at TUM. Image: A. Heddergott / TUM

    Medical diagnostics algorithm identifies pneumonia in paediatric x-ray images

    New AI technology protects privacy

    25 May 2021 | AI algorithms can support medical personnel in diagnosing illnesses. However, to train these algorithms, a precious good warranting careful protection must be accessed: medical data. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a technology that ensures that patients’ personal data are protected in the training of algorithms.

  • ERC Advanced Grants will provide funding for ground-breaking research projects at TUM. These include a digital lung model that could represent a decisive step toward personalized medicine. Image: Jakob Richter / Ebenbuild / TUM

    EU funding for cutting-edge research

    27 April 2021 |  Four ERC Advanced Grants for TUM scientists. Two of them for the MSB-PIs Hendrik Dietz and Wolfgang Wall. 

  • Gordon Cheng, Professor for Cognitive Systems, wants to dig deeper in understanding how the brain works. Image: Astrid Eckert / TUM

    “The machine as an extension of the body”

    15 December 2020 | Prof. Gordon Cheng, Professor for Kognitive Systems at TUM and MSB-PI, talks about the challenges of fusing robotics and neuroscience in an interview. 

  • Scientists of the TUM are conducting laboratory and computer research on the classification and therapy of Covid-19. Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

    The Bavarian Research Foundation is funding five research projects on Covid-19

    Fighting corona with machine learning

    16 October 2020 | The Bavarian Research Foundation is funding five research projects on Covid-19 at TUM, including one project of MSB-PI Marcus Makowski

  • Prof. Wall (r) and Dr. Biehler at work on their virtual lung model. (Image: A. Kerler / bavariaone)

    Computational model of the lung could significantly reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19 and ARDS

    Computer model enables protective ventilation

    29 May 2020 | Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) developed a computational lung model that could significantly reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19 and ARDS

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