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Attention machine learning enthusiasts, something extraordinary is happening this year! Our AI-Hackathon The Tensor Tournament T3 is expanding its horizons. In 2024, we're thrilled to announce that the hackathon will take place not only at FAU but at several Bavarian universities and universities of...

Our paper published in OJEMB explains why there is a urgent need for open algorithms for human gait analysis and explains our approach to developing new methods. Check it out here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411039

Our new open-access article Artificial intelligence trend analysis in German business and politics: a web mining approach by Dumbach et al. was published in the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. We describe a web mining approach to collect a novel data set consisting of busines...

After a whirlwind of experiences, including earning a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering and dual master's degrees in Computational Science and Engineering, Jitin is embarking on a new chapter as a researcher at the MaD Lab, where he will be working towards his PhD. Prior to this, he gained ...

We’re super proud of our student Victoria Müller, who participated in the ZEISS Women Award. Out of a pool of nearly 200 participants, Victoria was voted among the Top 10 finalists and was invited to the award ceremony in Dresden. Victoria consistently contributed to MaD Lab research projects ove...

Two weeks ago, we presented our research at this year's IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference (BHI ’23) (https://bhi.embs.org/2023/) in Pittsburgh, USA! The conference was a full success for the MaD Lab. In total, we were part of five contributions: Robert Richer presented the ...

Master's thesis/Bachelor's thesis/Project Background A major issue in modern palliative medicine is the lack of objective and continuous assessment of the health status of patients. This status can be classified by measurement tools such as the Karnofsky index or ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology...

Our paper "Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space" by Raab et al. was just published in The Lancet Digital Health. This collaborative effort between the MaD Lab and international experts in medicine, digital health and health policy, presents a novel approach to handl...

Bjoern Eskofier, Chair of Machine Learning and Data Analytics, has now been awarded by the Unipreneurs initiative under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry of Research and the German Federal Ministry of Economics. The Unipreneurs initiative aims to identify and reward university professo...

Our new open-access article Artificial intelligence trend analysis on healthcare podcasts using topic modeling and sentiment analysis: a data-driven approach by Dumbach et al. was published in the Journal of Evolutionary Intelligence. We describe a web mining approach to create a novel data set i...