Our first curATime speaker of the year will be Prof. Heinz Handels who is leading the Research Department “AI in Medical Image and Signal Processing” at the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) in Lübeck. He further holds the position of Director of the Institute of Medical Informatics at the University of Lübeck. With his talk about “AI in Medical Image Computing” he will give us and and our community interesting insights about the application of AI in medicine.

Prof. Handels' main research interests are the development of problem-optimized, adaptive image computing methods and their integration into hybrid image processing systems to support medical diagnostics and therapy. His current methodological work focuses on machine learning methods and deep learning networks for automatic analysis and recognition of different disease patterns, lesions, biomarkers, organs, tissues, etc. in medical images and image sequences. For medical support, they are combined with medical image processing methods and visualization techniques.

The curATalk will be held online via zoom. Click here to join the virtual lecture.

curATime - Cluster for Atherothrombosis and Individualized Medicine - is our collaborative cluster for future which we initiated with the University Medical Center Mainz, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and many more partners. The cluster is initially funded by the BMBF for three years. Within curATime, we want to reduce the incidence and impact of cardiovascular diseases, which is the leading cause of death worldwide.

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