Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS
Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Schenk

Research Interests

  • Medical image analysis and visualization for diagnosis, decision support and therapy
  • Development and application of AI algorithms in medicine
  • Hepatic interventions and oncological therapies
  • Transfer of research results into clinical applications
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2026

Eicke M, Geissler K, Heepe J, Krueger MB, Winther HB, Heymann A-K, Knörr F, Bucher AM, Herrmann J, Benoit C, Mentzel H-J, Schenk A, Wößmann W, Renz DM, Lassen-Schmidt B (2026) Paediatric thoracal and abdominal organ segmentation in CT and MRI using global intensity non-linear augmentation. European Journal of Radiology Artificial Intelligence 6:100096
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Zachmann G, Haddawy P, Kikinis R, Hennemuth A, Cattin PC, Döring T, Drouin S, Fichtinger G, Flügge T, Jorge JA, Kohli L, Lorenz M, Malaka R, Pascau J, Reiners D, V. Reinschluessel A, Schenk A, Schmid F, Suebnukarn S, Uslar V, Welch GF, Weller R, Weyhe D, Yin MS, Wijewickrema S (2026) Extended Reality for Enhancing Surgery: Research Directions to Transform the Operating Environment. J Healthc Inform Res
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2025

Basso L, Ahmadi Z, Oeltze-Jafra S, Petersen E, Shin H, Schenk A (2025) Using Photon-Counting CT Images for Lung Nodule Classification. Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. Association for Computing Machinery, pp 1102–1103
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Dornbusch S, Schenk A, Petersen E, Fehling R, Lenzen H, Levers A, Winther H, Wacker F, Ringe K (2025) Stellenwert der MRT als prognostischer Langzeitbiomarker bei Patienten mit primär sklerosierender Cholangitis (PSC). RöFo – Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren 197(S01):15–16
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Eicke M, Geißler K, Krüger MB, Heepe J, Winther H, Knörr F, Kuhnt AP, Bucher A, Mentzel HJ, Herrmann J, Benoit C, Schenk A, Wößmann W, Renz D, Lassen-Schmidt B (2025) Automatisierte multimodale Organsegmentierung in der pädiatrischen Radiologie: Ein Ansatz zum Domänenshift für CT- und MR-Bildgebung. RöFo – Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren. pp 58–59
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Kock F, Thielke F, Keck J, Wellge B, Hosseini ASA, Biggemann L, Wichmann D, Faberova M, Bösch F, Schenk A (2025) Clinical Usability of AI Segmentations for Liver Surgical Planning. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 11(2):29–32
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Kraft V, Tellal EC, Schenk A, Salzmann D, Weyhe D, Uslar V (2025) Evaluating the Perceptual Impact of Virtual and Physical Lighting on Medical Volume Rendering in AR. Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 11(2):76–79
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Schenk A, Kluge A, Pelzl S, Zachmann G, Malaka R (2025) From imaging to interaction with 3D models: technical aspects. Chirurgie 96(1):3–10
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2024

Kock F, Thielke F, Abolmaali N, Meine H, Schenk A (2024) Suitability of DNN-based vessel segmentation for SIRT planning. Int J CARS 19(2):233–240
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Kraft V, Schumann C, Salzmann D, Weyhe D, Zachmann G, Schenk A (2024) A Clinical User Study Investigating the Benefits of Adaptive Volumetric Illumination Sampling. IEEE TVCG 30(12):7571–7578
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2024 Visiting professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Since 2023 Deputy Institute Director, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
Since 2022 Professor for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy, Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Since 2012   Head of Liver Research, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
2014–2015 Lecturer at Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany
2013–2018 Equal opportunity officer, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
2012 Doctoral Dissertation: “Liver Segmentation and its Application to Hepatic Interventions, University Bremen (summa cum laude)
2009–2011 Principal scientist at Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
2000–2008 (Senior) Research scientist at MEVIS Research, Bremen, Germany
1998–1999 Research assistant at CeVis, University of Bremen, Germany
1997 Diploma Thesis "Approximation und Limitierung bei der Radon-Inversion", Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
1993–1994 Semester abroad, University College Dublin, Ireland
1991–1997 Studied Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
1988–1991 Apprenticeship as Mathematical-Technical Assistant, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022 Norddeutscher Zukunftspreis für Künstliche Intelligenz, awarded by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Lübeck
2018               Joseph von Fraunhofer Preis 2018, leader of the team with S. Zidowitz und A. Köhn (Fraumhofer MEVIS), Topic: „Algorithms for liver surgery - operating more safely worldwide“
2017–2022       Member of the Fraunhofer executive development program “Vintage Class”
2015                Proposed as one of 25 teams for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2015, leader of the team with Dr. Lutz Gündel (Siemens) and Florian Link (MeVis Medical Solutions AG), Topic: „Innovative image analysis methods for more safety in surgery“
2014–2016       Member of the Fraunhofer career program TALENTA excellence for female scientists
2009                Poster of Distinction: “Regeneration of Segment IV in Left Lobe Remnants: Analysis of Outflow Obstructed Territories in Computed Tomography Data”, Annual Meeting of the International Liver Transplantation Society, New York, USA
2006                Award (1. Preis) for the best poster and software presentation: “Evaluation of vessel analysis and volumetry for the planning of living donor liver transplantations”, Conference Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, Leipzig, Germany
2000–2003       PhD scholarship from the Federal State Bremen, Germany
1999                Multimedia award of the German Röntgen Society for the contribution „An image processing system for preoperative planning in liver surgery“
1993/1994      Erasmus scholarship for a semester abroad at the University College Dublin, Ireland