Research
Completed Projects
Circuit Board Recycling
In recent years, sales of electronic goods have increased. After their useful life they sooner or later (hopefully) end up…
ACTIVE : Aachen Center for Biomedical Image Analysis, Visualization and Exploration
Motivation ACTIVE is a collaborative research centre that develops and provides algorithms and methods for the analysis and exploration of highly complex image data sets and…
SmartCare Unit – Mimikmonitoring
Motivation Pain is not only an unpleasant experience, it also puts the human body under stress. Post-operative pain occurs…
Investigating Novel Deep Learning Approaches for Diffusion Imaging
Motivation Diffusion imaging (based on magnetic resonance imaging) can provide information about the course of neuronal pathways. Neuronal…
Neuroanatomy of the Drosophila Larva
Motivation With only about 10,000 neurons, the central nervous system of the Drosophila larva is small enough to allow an anatomical reconstruction of all neurons…
Hematology
Image Processing in Haematology Motivation Blood cells are formed in the bone marrow and, once fully matured, later perform numerous important tasks…
Photo Retouching
Automated, Dynamic Assessment of Image Quality Criteria Motivation Selecting suitable images for a given image style (also called a briefing) from a…
Automated Defect Detection for Industrial Quality Control
Motivation The use of machine learning and deep learning in industrial, image-based quality control holds enormous potential, but is currently…
Image-based Phenotyping of Nematodes
Motivation Nematodes (roundworms) form an extremely diverse animal phylum. Up to 4100 species of plant-parasitic nematodes are currently known. Many…
Quantitative Analysis and Visualization Methods for Microgel Microscopy Data
Motivation Microgels observed by single-molecule localisation microscopy appear as point clouds whose points correspond to the dye molecules. Within the project…
Digital Pathology
Motivation The large-scale high-throughput digitisation of histological glass slides by slide scanners producing digital whole slide images (WSIs), together with improved software and…
Automatisierte Analyse radiologischer Bilddaten
Motivation Radiological imaging methods make it possible to diagnose many diseases that cannot be diagnosed by other methods alone.…
EURADIOMICS: The Euregional network for Distributed Deep Learning from Radiology imaging to improve decision making in Oncology.
Main goal The Euradiomics project aims to incorporate the development of new radiomics technology into innovative software solutions and decision…
Cell Segmentation, Tracking and Classification in 3D+t Microscopy Image Data Using Deep Learning
Motivation Mitosis is the process by which eukaryotic cells divide to produce two daughter cells with identical genetic material…
Automatic Temporal and Spatial Registration of Large 3D+t Point Clouds
Motivation Time-resolved 3D fluorescence microscopy (3D+t) offers extensive possibilities for the detailed analysis of early embryonic development in various model organisms. Using automatic…
Mechanistic Interpretability for Large Neural Networks
Motivation Despite the growing use of ever larger and more powerful machine learning models in real-world applications, our understanding of how…
Cancer diagnosis
Cytopathological Tumor Diagnostics "Gentle" cancer diagnostics A few cells are enough for early detection More and more types of cancer can…
Onloom
IN COOPERATION WITH: [ Detailed english version on the project website ] The Fabric Enhancement System is a prototype realization…
Pleural Mesothelioma
Computer-aided diagnosis of early-stage pleural mesothelioma: automatic detection and quantitative assessment of pleural thickenings in thoracic CT data The…
Image-based Monitoring of Additive Beam Melting Processes
Image-Based, System-Independent Monitoring of Laser Beam Melting Processes A detailed overview of our work can be found on the English-language project page. Directly to the…
Cytoskeleton
Image Analysis of Dynamic Processes in the Cytoskeleton Imaging of recombinant fluorescent proteins in living cells has become a very…