News | AI in Medicine

Dr. Sevgi Gokce Kafali receives the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200

Dr. Sevgi Gokce Kafali has been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. During her fellowship, Sevgi will focus on “Assessment of Cardiac Health through Opportunistic Screening using MRI” at our lab.

More info here.

Daniel Rückert receives Leibniz Prize

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0100

Computer scientist and AI researcher Prof. Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025. The professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine and Healthcare at the Technical University of Munich (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 German Research Foundation (DFG).

Prof. Daniel Rückert has developed pioneering methods with which AI algorithms can generate particularly informative images from computer tomography or magnetic resonance imaging, analyze them and interpret them for improved medical diagnostics. Supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, TUM was able to bring the top scientist from Imperial College London to Munich in 2020.

Including Daniel Rückert, a total of 25 TUM researchers have been honored with Leibniz Prizes since 1986. TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann praised the prizewinner’s outstanding work: “The combination of artificial intelligence with medical applications is one of the most promising future topics of our time. And Prof. Rückert is one of the world’s most excellent experts in this field. I am sure that as the future head of the TUM Center for Digital Medicine and Health, which is currently under construction at the TUM Clinic, he will raise digitally supported medicine to a new level of performance.”

Daniel Rückert studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and received his doctorate from Imperial College London in 1997. He was Professor of Visual Information Processing and Dean of the Department of Computing. He has published numerous highly cited scientific articles, leads several large research projects and is the founder of a start-up that uses his research results for faster and more precise clinical trials of drugs.

Read the full press release here.

AIM Lab @ MICCAI 2024

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:45:38 +0200

Members of the AIM lab had a a fantastic time discussing science and enjoying Marrakech at MICCAI 2024. We presented over 20 scientific papers at the main MICCAI conference and the workshops in the area of image reconstruction, image analysis and multi-modal machine learning.

MICCAI Enduring Impact Award

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:45:38 +0200

The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (The MICCAI Society) presents Professor Daniel Rückert with the Enduring Impact Award 2024. He received the award at the MICCAI conference, which took place from October 6 to 10, 2024, in Marrakech, Morocco.

https://www.cit.tum.de/en/cit/news/article/miccai-enduring-impact-award-daniel-rueckert/

MIDL Best Paper Award

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:45:38 +0200

We are very excited that our paper “SINR: Spline-enhanced implicit neural representation for multi-modal registration” won got the best oral award in MIDL 2024! Congratulations to Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa and all the co-authors.

Check out the work here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=V5XDYSRcQP!

Emmy Noether Award

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:45:38 +0200

Martin Menten has been accepted into the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme by the German Research Foundation (https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-opportunities/programmes/individual/emmy-noether). The award will enable Martin to establish his own independent research group at the Institute for AI in Healthcare and Medicine. Over the course of the six-year project, he and his team will investigate strategies to harness multimodal learning signals for accurate, efficient, and interpretable deep learning for the fields of ophthalmology and neurology.

Alphabet and Google visit AIM Lab

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:45:38 +0200

Yesterday, we welcomed the CEO of Alphabet and Google, Sundar Pichai, to TUM and our Lab for AI in Medicine located at the University Hospital rechts der Isar. We were happy to showcase some of the exciting work on AI, cloud computing and genomics at TUM, followed by a fruitful discussion on how we can work together to accelerate the translation of these developments for the benefit of patients. Thank you for taking the time to visit us!

AIM Lab Mountain Retreat

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:45:38 +0200

We just returned from our lab retreat at the Kitzsteinhorn in Austria. We had a great time discussing science and enjoying the sun and snow!