16.07.2025
AI-Powered Cortical Mapping for Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnoses - With Christian Wachinger
Research Film
Christian Wachinger, Professor of AI in Radiology at the Technical University of Munich and PI at MCML, is developing AI systems to precisely reconstruct the brain’s cortex — an extremely thin and highly folded sheet of neural tissue — in order to measure it for diagnostic use.
15.07.2025
ERC Advanced Grant for Fabian Theis
Award Supports Project “DeepCell” on Modeling Cellular Dynamics
Fabian Theis, MCML PI, has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. The grant supports his project “DeepCell”, which aims to develop advanced deep learning methods for analyzing dynamic single-cell data. By combining state-of-the-art machine learning with …
15.07.2025
Nassir Navab Receives 2025 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award
Awarded at This Year’s EMBC Conference
Our PI Nassir Navab has received the 2025 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award. He was recognized “for pioneering roles in the establishment of the medical augmented reality, surgical data science, and robotic imaging fields.” The award, presented annually by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and …
14.07.2025
MCML's delegation visit to the USA
Short Recap
In May, a 20-member delegation from MCML visited top U.S. institutions — Harvard, MIT, NYU, and Cornell Tech — to foster long-term collaboration in AI research. The visit marked an important step in MCML’s newly launched AI X-Change program, which supports international research stays for PhD students and hosts visiting scholars in machine …
10.07.2025
Beyond Prediction: How Causal AI Enables Better Decision-Making - With Stefan Feuerriegel
Research Film
A good prediction is rarely a good decision. This may sound surprising in an age where AI is often celebrated for its predictive power. But when it comes to making real-world decisions — especially in complex environments like business or healthcare — prediction alone doesn’t cut it. What we need is AI that can help us choose what to do, not just …
09.07.2025
Capturing Complexity in Surgical Environments
MCML Research Insight - With Ege Özsoy, Chantal Pellegrini, Felix Tristram, Kun Yuan, David Bani-Harouni, Matthias Keicher, Benjamin Busam and Nassir Navab
Imagine an operating room - a space filled with intricate interactions, rapid decisions, and precise movements. Now, imagine capturing every detail of such a complex environment not just visually but also through sound, dialogue, robot movements, and much more. This is exactly what MM-OR – A Large Multimodal Operating Room Dataset for Semantic …
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09.07.2025
Entrepreneurship Insights at MCMLMunich AI Day
Short Recap
At the MCML Munich AI Day, we held a Masterclass on Entrepreneurship, with two invited speakers from our collaboration partners, Annie Weichselbaum from the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, and Bastian Burger from TUM Venture Labs. Both gave short impulses on how to build a company, how to pitch, on what matters when you try to build …
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09.07.2025
Masterclass on Science Communication at MCML Munich AI Day
Short Recap
The MCML Munich AI Day 2025 began on a collaborative note with a masterclass on science communication, in collaboration with the RHET AI Center and the Tübingen AI Center. A group of PhD researchers and PostDocs came together to tackle a crucial challenge: how to make their AI research more accessible, engaging, and impactful beyond academic …
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08.07.2025
Highlights From the MCML Munich AI Day 2025
A Short Recap
The MCML Munich AI Day 2025 brought together a full house of leading researchers, policymakers, industry experts, and journalists to discuss the transformative power of AI in today’s society. In addition,as part of the ELLIS Pre-ICML 2025 Fest, the event served as a vibrant platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on the societal, scientific, and …
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07.07.2025
Anne-Laure Boulesteix Receives Reinhart Koselleck Grant
Funding for Innovative Statistical Research
MCML Principal Investigator Anne-Laure Boulesteix has been awarded a prestigious Reinhart Koselleck Grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The highly competitive program supports researchers with an outstanding scientific track record who pursue particularly innovative or high-risk projects. Her project, titled “The design, interpretation …
06.07.2025
How Neural Networks Are Changing Medical Imaging – With Reinhard Heckel
Research Film
Clear imaging is essential for accurate diagnosis — but when it comes to the heart, motion makes it one of the most difficult organs to capture in high resolution. Traditional reconstruction methods often struggle to deliver the detail clinicians need.