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Lena Maier-Hein

@lena-maier-hein.bsky.social
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Head of Div. Intelligent Medical Systems (IMSY) at DKFZ, director of the National Center of Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg and @ellis.eu Health board member. Excited about Medical Imaging AI, Surgical Data Science, and Validation of A(G)Is.

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Lena Maier-Hein @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
💰 €1M award pool for Medical Imaging AGI’s Last Exam (MEDAL) Medical AI papers are booming - but are we solving the right problems? Too often, research follows available data, not real clinical needs.
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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Scientists at the DKFZ and Heidelberg University Hospital are presenting a method known as “xeno-learning" that enables artificial intelligence (AI) to learn how to transfer medical image data from animals to humans. @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social @natbiomedeng.nature.com t1p.de/8jzg3
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AI learns from animals: New approach to improve surgical imaging
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD), and Mannheim University Medical Center (UMM) are presenting a method that enables artificial intelligence...
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Fiona Kolbinger @fionakolbinger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Despite 10+ years of research, the field of surgical video AI remains detached from clinical needs. Our new systematic review identifies data, validation, and reporting as key bottlenecks: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #surgicalAI #surgicaldatascience #digitalsurgery
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Artificial intelligence for surgical scene understanding: a systematic review and reporting quality meta-analysis - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Artificial intelligence for surgical scene understanding: a systematic review and reporting quality meta-analysis
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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) @dkfz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Researchers from the DKFZ and Department of Anesthesiology at UKHD @ainsukhd.bsky.social are presenting an innovative approach that uses artificial intelligence and hyperspectral #imaging to enable faster #sepsis diagnosis directly at the bedside. @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social t1p.de/b7vmz
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Faster sepsis diagnosis through hyperspectral imaging and AI
Sepsis is one of the most dangerous medical emergencies. The condition is the result of a misdirected immune response to an infection, which can quickly lead to organ failure and death. Every hour cou...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 16/04/2025
Meet @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social: Prof. at @dkfz.bsky.social, Dir. at @nct-heidelberg.bsky.social 🇩🇪ELLIS Fellow. She pioneered AI-enabled real-time imaging in laparoscopic surgery; recieved the 2024 German Cancer Award. “Representation matters… Diversity drives innovation.” #WomenInELLIS
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Lena Maier-Hein @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Really excited about sharing this paper hot off the press: doi.org/10.1016/j.me... Invited to MedIA as one of the top MICCAI 2023 papers it presents large-scale analyses and concrete solutions related to prevalence shifts in medical image classification: 1/
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Lena Maier-Hein @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🗞️Hot off the press🗞️: doi.org/10.1016/j.me... published in MedIA. Many image analysis problems are ambiguous, but validation of solutions to inverse problems is far from trivial. In this paper we take inspiration from the field of object detection: 1/n
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Lena Maier-Hein @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Based on this #MICCAI2024 paper, we are currently preparing a new submission with a Bayesian approach to investigate the probability of false claims in medical imaging AI papers. The results are shocking… stay tuned⏰ Great collaboration with @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social and O. Colliot
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Lena Maier-Hein @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🎊Super excited to see that Metrics Reloaded is one of the most popular recent Nature Methods papers: www.nature.com/articles/s41... In the pipeline: Metrics Reloaded-Surgery and Metrics Reloaded - Reconstruction/Synthesis. And of course Metrics Revolutions 🤫
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Metrics reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation - Nature Methods
Metrics Reloaded is a comprehensive framework for guiding researchers in the problem-aware selection of metrics for common tasks in biomedical image analysis.
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Lena Maier-Hein @lena-maier-hein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hello Bluesky world🙋🏼‍♀️, Let me start with good news: Superstar Shekoofeh Azizi, research lead at Google DeepMind, will visit us in Heidelberg next week and give a talk in our @ellis.eu / hd.ai / NCT data science seminar. You can register here: www.dkfz.de/en/datascien... (talk will not be recorded)
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