Institute News

Fraunhofer MEVIS institute director Prof. Horst Hahn gives the opening lecture on “How artificial intelligence is changing radiology” at the opening event of the 101st German Radiology Congress, followed by a discussion round.

The U Bremen Research Alliance, a collaboration of the University and all federal and state funded non-university research institutions in Bremen and Bremerhaven, makes the research strength of the University and its non-university partners visible across the globe. The cooperation will now be further consolidated: The U Bremen Research Alliance will become a non-profit association.

The STEAM Imaging II workshops for pupils are part of an artist-in-residence program at Fraunhofer MEVIS in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Center in Linz and the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen. In the second edition of the program, two workshops took place, one at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen on October 23-24, 2019 and one in Linz on November 14-15, 2019.

The COVID-19 disease is making a large impact on everyday life. This also applies to us at Fraunhofer MEVIS. We have urged almost all of our employees to stay at home.

Computer-aided diagnosis, artificial intelligence and navigation of vascular catheters – these are the topics Fraunhofer MEVIS is presenting at the “Medical Imaging” conference of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), which will take place in Houston, Texas, from February 15 to 20.

The conference and exhibition „Navigating the Postdigital”, which takes place from 15 to 17 January at the Applied Innovation Laboratory in Vienna, shows immersive art installations at the interface of virtuality and reality, the digital and the analog, as well as man, nature and machine.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presents its latest developments in AI-related software solutions at the 105th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) taking place at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL from December 1 to 6.

Fraunhofer MEVIS provides the software MEVIS draw for creating and editing segmentations on 3D medical images for free download. MEVIS draw supports clinicians and AI researchers in interactively annotating data such as CT or MR images.

Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists have successfully participated in two challenges that took place as satellite events at the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2019) in Shenzhen, China, from October 13 to 17.

MICCAI 2019, the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, is held from October 13th to 17th, 2019 in Shenzhen, China.