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Fraunhofer MEVIS is once again participating in Girls' Day on April 3 with an extensive program on the topic of “Digital Medicine”. The aim is to arouse the interest of around 20 participating schoolgirls from the 7th grade onwards in scientific content, to convey this in a practical way and to show them perspectives within the STEM subjects.

From April 8 to 10 DMEA 2025, Europe’s leading digital health event, will take place at Messe Berlin, bringing together experts from healthcare, IT, and research to showcase and discuss the latest developments, technologies, and solutions for digitalization in healthcare. Our experts look forward to welcoming you at the joint booth of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Hall 2.2, Booth D-109. This year Fraunhofer MEVIS presents AI-powered solutions for informed decisions and better patient care:

MOIN, short for Model Region for Industrial Mathematics, aims to make mathematics tangible in everyday life, spark interest in the subject, and improve its attractiveness in schools in the long term—for example by contributing to the new upper secondary specialization “Digital Medicine” at the Oberschule am Waller Ring secondary school. Fraunhofer MEVIS, a partner of MOIN and member organization of the U Bremen Research Alliance (UBRA), aims to contribute to strengthening innovation in the region.

The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) is an international event, renowned for its significance in radiology. It ranks among Europe's largest medical gatherings and globally as the second-largest radiological congress. A key highlight of this year’s ECR is Pixel Pandemonium, a showcase of novel AI and machine learning tools for medical imaging. This first-of-its-kind session is co-hosted by Fraunhofer MEVIS institute director Prof. Horst Hahn and is endorsed by the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI). Fraunhofer MEVIS is excited to contribute to this year’s program with an oral presentation, a poster, and several live demonstrations.

Artificial intelligence and computer-aided support for diagnosis and therapy in digital medicine—these are the topics the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS is presenting at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference, which is held in San Diego/USA from February 16 to 20. This year, Fraunhofer MEVIS is again well represented at the renowned conference with numerous scientific and educational contributions, including a live demonstration workshop, two training courses, three oral and six poster presentations.

Fraunhofer MEVIS simplifies the introduction to MRI imaging with a workshop for students.

Prof. Dr. med. Fabian Kiessling has been recognized by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher 2024 in the Pharmacology and Toxicology category. This is the sixth consecutive year he has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list, having already been recognized in the same category between 2021 and 2023 as well as in the Cross-Field category in 2019 and 2020.

On the occasion of Breast Health Awareness Month, the “Breast Health Awareness STEAM Workshop” took place at the Institute on October 28th—an event by women for women, featuring scientists, school students from the trial run of the “Digital Medicine” specialization at the Oberschule am Waller Ring, along with their friends, mothers, and teachers.

Andrea Schenk, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS and Professor of Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy at Hannover Medical School, has been a visiting professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) for three months since August 1, 2024.

“We Flow into the World, and the World Flows into Us — The Beauty of Blood Flow" wins Industry Award for Best Animation at the Raw Science Film Festival 2024. The Awards Ceremony was held on October 5, 2024, in New York, USA.

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) in cooperation with the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR) invites applications for the Pixel Pandemonium at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2025. ECR 2025 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from February 26 – March 2, 2025.

On September 25, 2024, Institute Director Prof. Horst Hahn and employees of Fraunhofer MEVIS welcomed Kathrin Moosdorf, Senator for Environment, Climate and Science of the State of Bremen, her State Councilor Irene Strebl, and the Head of the Department for Science Planning and Research Funding Dr. Lars Henning. In a presentation accompanied by video and sound, Horst Hahn explained what the institute’s activities aim for – which is nothing less than optimizing computer support and AI systems in such a way that they serve as the key to a more precise, affordable and sustainable healthcare.

As part of its activities to promote young talent, Fraunhofer MEVIS once again offered a course at this year's Informatica Feminale for female practitioners from all disciplines with an interest in medicine, computer science, and mathematics.

Giving society a better idea of the importance of mathematics for innovation and our everyday lives and making the best possible use of mathematical results are the goals of the sustainable model region for industrial mathematics (MOIN) in Bremen, Bremerhaven, and the district of Osterholz. The aim is to establish industrial mathematics as a driver of innovation in business and industry, raise public awareness of industrial mathematics, and make maths in schools attractive again. The transfer project has now been honored with the NordWest Award 2024 from the Metropolitan Region Northwest.

Starting with the 2025/26 school year in summer 2025, there will be a new offer for Bremen students at the secondary school Oberschule am Waller Ring, which has a health focus: recently, the school authorities approved the “Digital Medicine” specialization. It sheds light on the part of medicine that addresses the question of how digital methods can improve healthcare. The role of imaging techniques and the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) are prominent examples. The profile is offered in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS. The first trial run is now starting at the MEVIS partner school Oberschule am Waller Ring (formerly part of the Walle school center). It enables interested students to take a look at the future professional fields of medicine.

On July 10, 2024, at the Curious Future Insight Conference, experts from science and industry discussed the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in health research in a workshop organized by Fraunhofer Health. The biennial conference with over 2,000 participants highlights societal challenges from the perspectives of science, technology and innovation.

At this year’s World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) in Vancouver, Fraunhofer MEVIS scientist Elin Theilen will give an oral presentation about “Prediction of patient-specific knee joint dynamics in tibial fractures”.

Fraunhofer MEVIS participates in a new special exhibition at Universum® Bremen, showing the many faces of the key technology.

On Friday, June 21, 2024, the 16th meeting of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board took place in Bremen under the direction of Prof. Hans Maier, Chairman of the Advisory Board.

The EU-funded project TACTIX was kicked off successfully by a joint workshop held in Istanbul at Bogaziçi University (BOUN) on June 4 and 5. Approximately 40 members and students from the Faculty for Biomedical Engineering attended the official project kickoff, followed by the first meeting of the project's General Assembly to plan the next three years of work packages.

As an institute working with human medical data from all over the world, Fraunhofer MEVIS relies on diversity as an important asset. To raise awareness of diversity and unconscious bias and increase the visibility of diversity at the institute, Fraunhofer MEVIS is celebrating German Diversity Day 2024 on May 28 with on-site and online activities.

From May 8 to 10, 2024, the radiology community will gather at the 105th German Radiology Congress, short “RÖKO”, in Wiesbaden, Germany. The motto of this year’s congress is “Radiology in Transformation” and will focus primarily on AI (artificial intelligence) applications. Fraunhofer MEVIS has contributions to several sessions of the RÖKO Wiesbaden and RÖKO Digital.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is once again participating in Girls' Day on April 25 with an extensive program on the topic of “Digital Medicine”. The aim is to arouse the interest of around 20 participating schoolgirls from the 7th grade onwards in scientific content, to convey this in a practical way and to show them perspectives within the STEM subjects.

Making the best possible use of mathematical results and giving society a better idea of the importance of mathematics for innovation and for our everyday lives—these are the goals of a sustainable model region for industrial mathematics (MOIN) in Bremen, Bremerhaven, and Osterholz county. The aim is to establish industrial mathematics as a driver of innovation in business and industry, to raise public awareness of industrial mathematics, and to make mathematics attractive again in schools. The #MOIN Campus–Nachbarschaft–Sichtbarkeit (which translates as #MOIN Campus-Neighbourhood-Visibility) sub-project aims to improve the reputation of mathematics among the public and to communicate the benefits of mathematics to young people and their teachers in particular. Activities take place on campus and in the neighbourhood, as well as at the young people’s schools.

On March 26, 1949, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft was founded in Munich as a non-profit organization. Three quarters of a century later, it is one of the world's leading organizations for application-oriented research with more than 30,000 employees and 76 institutes not only in Germany but also in other parts of the world. They are all united by one guiding principle: to develop innovations for the future from ideas.

DMEA, Europe's leading event for digital health, brings together exhibitors and industry experts from 9 to 11 April 2024 to present and discuss the latest developments, technologies and solutions for digitalization in healthcare. Our experts look forward to seeing you at the Fraunhofer stand, Hall 2.2, Stand D-108.

The potential benefits of using AI technology in healthcare are enormous. However, there are significant practical, technological, and legal implications that must be considered to protect patients. The BOX is an interactive installation that explores the “black box” aspect of AI technology, posing the question: If we feed AI with incomplete or biased data - can we then expect it to make reasonable suggestions?

Fraunhofer MEVIS aims for utilizing compact MRI devices for research and education. Lecture “MRI Sequence Composition Beyond Academia” and workshop “Prototype your own MRI Sequence,” 4th of April, in cooperation with the Institute for Design Informatics (IDI), University of Edinburgh.

The aim of the BVM Workshop 2024 (German Conference on Medical Image Computing), which takes place in Erlangen from March 10 to 12, is to exchange current research results and to facilitate in-depth discussions among scientists, industry, and users from medicine and technology. The workshop offers young scientists in particular a platform to present their work.

The Fraunhofer MEVIS institute building on the campus of the University of Bremen has been retrofitted with a photovoltaic system, which has now gone into operation. As was previously the case with the commissioning of five charging points for electromobility, Fraunhofer MEVIS is thus making a contribution to reducing its ecological footprint and strengthening sustainability.