Institute News

MEVIS Institute Director Horst Hahn visits Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for an expert discussion on “AI in Medicine”.

In Bremen on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the eleventh time.

Six months after the foundation stone was laid, Fraunhofer MEVIS celebrates the roofing ceremony for its new institute building on the campus of the University of Bremen on Wednesday, June 19, 2019.

Fraunhofer MEVIS co-hosts the booth of the EMPAIA consortium at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Pathology (DGP) in Frankfurt/Main from June 13 to 15, 2019.

Hands-on workshop for STEM scientists held by Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedmann (ifs) and Dr. Marion Esch (MINTEEE) at Fraunhofer MEVIS.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is well represented at the 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the ISMRM held in Montréal from May 11 to 16.

The Fraunhofer MEVIS team represented by Johannes Lotz, Nick Weiss and Stefan Heldmann was ranked as the final #1 in the Automatic Non-rigid Histological Image Registration (ANHIR) challenge at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) taking place in Venice, Italy on April 8-11.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is partner in Bremen’s first Leibniz ScienceCampus on digital public health.

Ron Kikinis – Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Medical Image Computing at University Bremen, and Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS – has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

The third meeting of the artificial intelligence cluster BREMEN.AI will take place this evening in the premises of Fraunhofer MEVIS and in the labs of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University Bremen.

The second year in a row, the work of Fraunhofer MEVIS was recognized by the scientific documentary industry at the Raw Science Film Festival held on January 26 in Los Angeles, CA.

Exactly 10 years after joining the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, on 1 January 2019, the former Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS changes its official name to Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS.

After a two-year planning phase, the construction of the new institute building for Fraunhofer MEVIS began on the campus of the University of Bremen in early September.

We are opening the doors and inviting kids and their parents to visit our MRI Center at Fraunhofer MEVIS on Wednesday, October 3rd. MEVIS joins the initiative “Maus Türöffner-Tag” by the WDR „Die Sendung mit der Maus” opening doors all over Germany to discover exciting and interesting facts and sites.

Fraunhofer MEVIS presents a new short movie in cooperation with Media Art Nexus at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Fraunhofer MEVIS hosted a Science Night under the motto "Systems Biology Meets Digital Medicine" on its premises yesterday evening.

How can we use the potential of scientific expertise and artistic creativity to make STEM-topics accessible with fun? In the field of medical technology, we are accustomed to working across disciplines. With our web-based interactive STEAM-application "Inside Insight" we teach now in a two-and-a-half hour online workshop methods of medical image processing for 12 to 14 year old students.

In cooperation with the Foundation for MINT-Entertainment-Education-Excellence (MINTEEE) we are pleased to give filmmakers exclusive insights into the future of medicine and hospitals in a one-day workshop on June 27.

In Bremen on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board (Kuratorium) met for the tenth time.

From May on, visitors of the Ars Electronica Center can watch the new short film “Physicians’ Colleague, Patients’ Helper: The Cognitive Computer” in the 3D theater Deep Space 8K. The film shows how deep neural networks contribute to the evaluation of medical data and how this also changes the role of physicians and patients.

Fraunhofer MEVIS researchers Markus Wenzel and Hans Meine instructed a 1-day-course on “Deep Learning for Image Understanding” on Saturday, February 10 as part of this year‘s SPIE Medical Imaging Conference held February 10–15 in Houston, Texas.

Fraunhofer MEVIS mourns the loss of an extraordinary person and a generous supporter of science. Conrad Naber died at the age of 95 on the night of January 29th.

About 100 participants and international experts from medicine, science, and industry discussed the potential of ultrasound technologies and solutions for medical diagnosis and therapy at the Charité Berlin in a 2-day symposium and a 1-day expert meeting on January 17–19, 2018.

Fraunhofer MEVIS is honored to receive the “Industry Award for Best Immersive Media” for the movie “The Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis” at the 4th “Raw Science Film Festival: The Bridge between Science and Media” held between January 5–7, 2018 in Santa Barbara, CA.

Fraunhofer MEVIS co-chairs the Live Demonstrations Workshop as part of the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference held February 10–15 in Houston/Texas.

The image “Individual Dose of Color” submitted by Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Nadine Spahr wins 4th place at the “RSNA 2017 Image Contest“ in the category “Radiology Art: Medical images altered into works of art“.

The EC-funded "Translational Brain Imaging Training Network" (TRABIT) launched with a kick-off meeting held in Copenhagen on November 20, 2017.

A kick-off event on November 22, 2017 launched a joint project for the development of novel navigation systems for the treatment of vascular diseases, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The employees of Fraunhofer MEVIS mourn for Hartmut Jürgens who died at the age of 62 years after a serious illness on Saturday, September 23, 2017.

Today the 7th Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (EG VCBM) opens its doors at Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen for two days of interdisciplinary exchange.