News Medical Image Processing & AI

  • 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

  • EU flag and ERC logo

    ERC Advanced Grant awarded to MSB-P Daniel Cremers

    Physics modeling using video data

    8 April 2020 | ERC advanced grant awarded to MSB-PI Daniel Cremers for a project on physics modeling using video data.

  • Detail of the brain vasculature of a mouse.

    Combination of biochemical methods and AI shows even the finest capillaries

    Analysis of whole brain vasculature

    17 Mar 2020 | Diseases of the brain are often associated with typical vascular changes. Now, scientists have come up with a technique for visualising the structures of all the brain's blood vessels including any pathological changes.

  • DeepMACT makes use of artificial intelligence to find even the smallest metastases in the entire mouse body. The picture shows single disseminated cells spreading though the lung. (Image: Helmholtz Zentrum München)

    New deep-learning algorithm DeepMACT detects even the smallest metastases across the entire mouse body

    Exposing the enemy

    17 Dec 2019 | Artificial intelligence helps to understand the dissemination of cancer cells: New deep-learning algorithm DeepMACT detects even the smallest metastases across the entire mouse body.

  • Humanoid robot covered with artificial skin encounters a human.

    Biologically-inspired artificial skin improves sensory ability of robots

    Sensitive robots are safer

    22 Oct 2019 | Sensitive synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings: A team led by MSB-PI Gordon Cheng has created the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin.

  • An intra-operative augmented reality system concept. Image: Marc Lazarovici and Alexander Winkler

    TV feature on medical augmented reality

    18 October 2019 | The documentary W wie Wissen produced by German public television ARD shows MSB-PI Nassir Navab’s work in the field of medical augmented reality.