Institute News

On Wednesday, 25.01.23, the kick-off at Fraunhofer MEVIS took place with students of the vocational high school class BGy25-G of the school center in Bremen-Walle (SZ Walle) and their teachers. The partnership aims to get students from SZ Walle excited about science and research in digital medicine and to encourage them to deal with the many aspects of the subject practically. Together, Fraunhofer MEVIS wants to promote talents and gifts and thus attract researchers with diverse life backgrounds for the digital medicine of tomorrow and, at the same time, contribute to more educational equality.

On Monday, the Los Angeles-based Bulgarian media artist Eli Joteva provided her work “IntraBeing Expanded View” as a permanent exhibit to Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute’s building at the main location in Bremen.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presents its latest developments in AI-related software solutions for image and data-supported early detection, diagnosis, and therapy at the Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) taking place at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL from November 27th to December 1st.

Prof. Dr. med. Fabian Kiessling has been recognized by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher 2022 in the Pharmacology and Toxicology category. This is the fourth consecutive year he has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list, having already been recognized in the same category in 2021 as well as in the Cross-Field category in 2019 and 2020.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is delighted to complete ”STEAM Imaging IV“ with the independent evaluation of the workshops with school students and STEAM evenings with their parents as part of the artist-in-residence program STEAM Imaging IV. The Program allows media artists to engage in intensive exchange with Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists to critically examine current methods, developments, and research results in their works.

Exhibition: 7th to 16th November 2022--- Zeynep Abes, Turkish media artist and graduate of UCLA's Design Media Arts MFA program, exhibits Moments Within: Forgotten Feelings and False Memories. The video installation is the outcome of her residency »STEAM Imaging IV« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Germany.

4–13 NOVEMBER 2022— PRESS & INDUSTRY NIGHT: WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER— Following its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, London based art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast brings EVOLVER, their extraordinary, collaborative virtual reality experience, to Europe.

A draft project to develop an educational app about breast imaging in collaboration with Fraunhofer MEVIS was recently rewarded with the Barbers Bursary Award.

As part of the “STEAM Imaging IV” residency program, Turkish artist Zeynep Abes is on the trail of the secrets of memory. At the beginning, the MR image of a blood vessel tree in the human brain appears on the monitor. Sound and music start to play and the image dissolves, forming shapes and patterns that immediately dissolve again and come together to form new structures. The work can leave you spellbound and immersed in an associative maelstrom of organic-looking pixel clouds flowing back and forth. “Moments Within: Visualizing the Journey of Memory” is the title of the multimedia work by Turkish artist Zeynep Abes. It was created during the “STEAM Imaging IV” residency program hosted this year by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in Bremen in collaboration with Ars Electronica, the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen, the School Center Walle, and the UCLA ArtSci Center. In September, the artwork will be presented online at this year's Ars Electronica Festival. At the end of 2022, it will be on display as an installation at the UCLA ArtSci Center.

Bremen will be hosting the prestigious International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in 2026. Thanks to the successful application made by the U Bremen Research Alliance and the Section for Artificial Intelligence at the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik) this leading conference will be held in Germany again after 43 years. With this, Germany and especially Bremen demonstrated its suitability as an excellent place for artificial intelligence and science.