Awards

Awards 2026

TIGER SQ-AI Challenge - Task: Semantic Segmentation (16 Classes)

Amine Yamlahi, Juan Provencio, Kian Hashtrudi-Zaad, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded

1st Place

in the

TIGER SQ-AI Challenge 2026 - Task Semantic Segmentation (16 Classes)

as part of the Endoscopic Vision Challenge

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 27, 2026, Strasbourg, France

TIGER SQ-AI Challenge 2026 - Task: Semantic Segmentation (31 Classes)

Amine Yamlahi, Juan Provencio, Kian Hashtrudi-Zaad, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded

1st Place

in the

TIGER SQ-AI Challenge 2026 - Task Semantic Segmentation (31 Classes)

as part of the Endoscopic Vision Challenge

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 27, 2026, Strasbourg, France

TIGER SQ-AI Challenge 2026 - Task Multi-Label Classification

Amine Yamlahi, Juan Provencio, Kian Hashtrudi-Zaad, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded

1st Place

in the

TIGER SQ-AI Challenge 2026 - Task Multi-Label Classification

as part of the Endoscopic Vision Challenge

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 27, 2026, Strasbourg, France

MICCAI 2026 - Outstanding Challenge Reviewer Award

Patrick Godau

was awarded the

Outstanding Challenge Reviewer Award

at the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 28, 2026, Strasbourg, France

2026 EMBS Technical Achievement Award

Lena Maier-Hein

received the

2026 EMBS Technical Achievement Award

for

Pioneering contributions to validation and clinical translation of AI in biomedical imaging and surgery, including the establishment of surgical data science and AI-driven intraoperative imaging technologies.

European Society of Radiology - Most Cited Paper

Burak Kocak, Bettina Baessler, Spyridon Bakas, Renato Cuocolo, Andrey Fedorov, Lena Maier-Hein, Nathaniel Mercaldo, Henning Müller, Fanny Orlhac, Daniel Pinto dos Santos, Arnaldo Stanzione, Lorenzo Ugga & Alex Zwanenburg

were recognized for receiving the 

highest number of article citations  in lnsights into lmaging for the Impact Factor 2024

for their paper

Checklist for EvaluAtion of Radiomics research (CLEAR): a step-by-step reporting guideline for authors and reviewers endorsed by ESR and EuSoMII

by the European Society of Radiology

BVM Award 2026

Patrick Godau

received the

BVM Award 2026

for his PhD thesis

Lifelong Machine Learning for Biomedical Image Classification

at the German Conference on Medical Image Computing (Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin) in Lübeck 2026

 

Awards 2025

Helmholtz AI - Best Paper Award 2025

Silvia Seidlitz, Katharina Hölzl, Ayca von Garrel, Jan Sellner, Stephan Katzenschlager, Tobias Hölle, Dania Fischer, Maik von der Forst, Felix C.F. Schmitt, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Markus A. Weigand, Lena Maier-Hein, Maximilian Dietrich

won the

Helmholtz AI Best Paper Award 2025

for the paper

AI-powered skin spectral imaging enables instant sepsis diagnosis and outcome prediction in critically ill patients

 

 

SAGES CVS LIGHTHOUSE Challenge - 1st prize CVS Classification

The 1st prize of the SAGES Critical View of Safety (CVS) LIGHTHOUSE Challenge in the category CVS Classification

was awarded to 

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, David Leeb, Kian Hashtrudi-Zaad, Pascal Hansen, Fabian Isensee, Alexander Seitel, Lena Maier-Hein

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 23rd 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

SAGES CVS LIGHTHOUSE Challenge - 1st prize Computational Efficiency

The 1st prize of the SAGES Critical View of Safety (CVS) LIGHTHOUSE Challenge in the category Computational Efficiency

was awarded to 

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, David Leeb, Kian Hashtrudi-Zaad, Pascal Hansen, Fabian Isensee, Alexander Seitel, Lena Maier-Hein

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 23rd 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

SAGES CVS LIGHTHOUSE Challenge - 3rd prize Segmenation

The 3rd prize of the SAGES Critical View of Safety (CVS) LIGHTHOUSE Challenge in the category Segmentation

was awarded to 

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, David Leeb, Kian Hashtrudi-Zaad, Pascal Hansen, Fabian Isensee, Alexander Seitel, Lena Maier-Hein

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 23rd 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Endoscopic Vision Challenge - RARE Challenge

Piotr Kalinowski, Dominik Michael, Amine Yamlahi, Berit Pauls, Lucas Luttner, Patrick Godau and Lena Maier-Hein

won the

1st Place

at the

Recognition of Abnormalities in low pREvalence cancer (RARE) Challenge

at the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI)

September 27th 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

 

Competition "The Art of Going Wrong"

Tom Rix

won the Category: Best Story

“The Art of Going Wrong”

hosted by the Young Marsilius Fellows

17h of July, Heidelberg

Kaggle Award

Kaggle Certificate of Achievement - Place 2nd of 1136 Teams

was awarded to

Fabian Isensee, Amine Yamlahi, Karol Gotkowski, Alexandra Ertl and Stefan Denner

for their work:

“BYU - Locating Bacterial Flagellar Motors 2025”

5th June 2025

Hector-Stiftung-Preis 2025

The image shows a certificate awarded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences to Dr. Annika Reinke for receiving the Hector Stiftung Prize 2025. The award recognizes her work titled "Metrics Reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation," dated May 26, 2023.

Dr. Annika Reinke

was awarded with the

Hector-Stiftung-Preis 2025 

for her work:

“Metrics Reloaded: recommendations for image analysis validation”

24th of May, Heidelberg

Wirtschaftsjuniorenpreis 2025

Berit Pauls 

was awarded with the

Wirtschaftsjuniorenpreis 2025

for her work:

“Sequential Modeling for Stroke Prediction Following Carotid Revascularization Surgery using Health Insurance Claims Data”

9th of May, Heilbronn

Medical Image Analysis MICCAI 2023 Best Paper Award

Certificate for the MICCAI 2023 Best Paper Award in Medical Image Analysis, recognizing the work titled "Navigating Prevalence Shifts in Image Analysis Algorithm Deployment." Presented to authors Patrick Godau and others at the MICCAI Conference 2023, published by Elsevier.

The Medical Image Analysis MICCAI 2023 Best Paper Award

was awarded to

Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Evangelia Christodoulou, Annika Reinke, Minu Tizabi, Luciana Ferrer, Paul Jäger, and Lena Maier-Hein

in recognition of their paper

“Navigating Prevalence Shifts in Image Analysis Algorithm Deployment”

presented at the MICCAI Conference 2023 and part of the corresponding Special Issue published 2025

Awards 2024

Roland Ernst Preis 2024

Certificate awarding the Roland-Ernst Prize to Dr. Jan Sellner, Dr. Alexander Studier-Fischer, and Dr. Nicholas Schreck for interdisciplinary research in radiology and collaborative projects, including the title "Xeno-Learning: Knowledge Transfer Between Species for Deep-Learning Algorithms in Spectral Image Analysis." Date: December 16, 2024.

The Roland-Ernst-Preis 2024 for interdisciplinary research in the area of radiology and interdisciplinary work on infrastructural projects

was awarded to

Jan Sellner, Alexander Studier-Fischer and Nicholas Schreck

for the scientific work

“Xeno-Learning”: Wissenstransfer zwischen Spezien für Deep-Learning-Algorithmen zur spektralen Bildanalyse

at the annual meeting of the research topic “Imaging and Radiooncology” of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

held on December 16th 2024 in Heidelberg

Landesforschungspreis 2024

A certificate awarding the Landesforschungspreis 2024 for applied research to Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein from the Minister of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. It includes the date, "22. Oktober 2024," and is signed by Petra Olschowski, the Minister.

Prof. Dr.- Ing. Lena Maier-Hein

was awarded the

State Research Prize

for

excellence in applied research

22th October 2024, Stuttgart

PhaKIR Award - 1st place

Certificate for the Phakir Award, awarded for first place in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge for Surgical Instrument Keypoint Estimation. It recognizes contributions from Amine Yamlıha, Jakob Hennighausen, and Lena Maier-Heiri from the German Cancer Research Center, at the MICCAI 2024 conference.

The 1st place in the category surgical instrument keypoint estimation

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Lena Maier-Hein

in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge - sub-challenge: PhaKIR - Challenge: Phase, Keypoint and Instrument Recognition

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 3rd prize

Certificate awarded to Team SDS-HD from DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany, for winning 3rd Prize in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge in the category of CVS classification. The award signifies recognition in medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention. Dated October 10, 2022.

The 3rd prize in the category CVS classification

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 2nd prize, overall best performance

This image is a certificate awarded to Team SDS-HD for achieving 2nd Prize in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge. It includes the team's name, a list of contributors, and details regarding the award event, dated October 10, 2014.

The 2nd prize for the overall best performance

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 3rd prize, category uncertainty quantification

A certificate awarded to Team SDS-HD from DKFZ Heidelberg for achieving 3rd prize in the "SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge" in the category of Uncertainty Quantification. The certificate is dated October 10, 2014, and displays various logos related to the event and institutions involved.

The 3rd prize in the category uncertainty quantification

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge - 1st prize, category robustness

This image is a certificate awarded to Team SDS-HD for winning 1st prize in the "Category Robustness" at the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge. It includes the event details and date: 28 October 2024, and is part of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention conference.

The 1st prize in the category robustness

was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Jakob Hennighausen, Leon Mayer, Patrick Godau, Piotr Kalinowski, Lars Krämer, Ömer Sümer, Dominik Michael, Tim Rädsch, Fabian Isensee, Lena Maier-Hein

in the SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

Women in MICCAI - Best Oral Presentation Award

Certificate awarded to Silvia Seidlitz from the German Cancer Research Center, recognizing her for an Honorable Mention in the Best Oral Presentation Award at the MICCAI 2024 conference. The award is for her paper on the calibration of hyperspectral cameras.

Silvia Seidlitz

won the

Women in MICCAI (WiM)

Honourable Mention:

Best Oral Presentation Award

for the paper:

"Deep intra-operative illumination calibration of hyperspectral cameras"

at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 10th 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco

The European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics - Most downloaded paper award

Certificate from the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) recognizing the "CheckList for Evaluation of Radiomics research (CLEAR)" article, authored by multiple contributors. It also states the article received the award for the most downloaded paper in 2023 in the field of Imaging Informatics.

Burak Kocak, Bettina Baessler, Spyridon Bakas, Renato Cuocolo, Andrey Fedorov, Lena Maier-Hein, Nathaniel Mercaldo, Henning Müller, Fanny Orlhac, Daniel Pinto dos Santos, Arnaldo Stanzione, Lorenzo Ugga and Alex Zwanenburg

were awarded with the

Most downloaded paper award in the field of Imaging Informatic and Artificial Intelligence in Insights into Imaging

for the article:

"CheckList for EvaluAtion of Radiomics research (CLEAR): a step-by-step reporting guidline for authos and reviewers endorsed by ESR and EuSoMII

Pisa, October 2024

2nd Place - MICCAI Educational Challenge

A certificate presented for achieving 2nd place in the MICCAI Educational Challenge 2024. The award recognizes the project titled "Validation Reloaded: Elevate Your Model Validation with Advanced Toolkits." It features signatures from the MICCAI Student Board and a gold seal of excellence.

Annika Reinke & A. Emre Kavur

won the 2nd place in the

MICCAI Educational Challenge 2024

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 06th to October 10th in Marrakesh, Morocco

Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School - Poster Prize

Certificate awarding a poster prize at the BIGSS 2024 Graduate Summer School in Galway, Ireland, from August 5 to August 9. It certifies that Kris Dreher was a runner-up for the poster prize, signed by Chair Prof. Martin J. Leahy.

Kris Dreher

won the

Poster Prize

at the

Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School

5th - 9th August 2024, Galway, Ireland

Surgical Data Science Summer School Strasbourg 2024 - First Place Group Project

The image displays a certificate for the "Group Project Award" from the Surgical Data Science Summer School, held from July 15-19, 2024. It includes the names of Nicolas Padoy, PhD, and Silvana Perretta, MD, as signatories, along with the presentation title and institutional logo.

Freweini Tesfai, Anjana, Wijekoon, José Trayano, Lennart Maack, Leon Mayer, Takuto Yoshida

won the

First Place Group Project Award

at the

Surgical Data Science Summer School Strasbourg 2024

for

"Ultrasound 2D to 3D: Revolutionizing Myomectomy with Cutting Edge Fibroid Mapping for Precision Surgery"

15th July 2024, Strasbourg

DKFZ PhD Retreat - Best PhD Talk Award

A certificate issued by the German Cancer Research Center awards Tom Rix the "Best PhD Talk Award" for his presentation titled "Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging with Deep Learning" at the DKFZ PhD Retreat, held from July 1-3, 2024. Signed by Dr. Lindsay Murrells.

The Best PhD Talk Award

was awarded to

Tom Rix

for his talk

Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging with Deep Learning

at the DKFZ PhD Retreat, Weil der Stadt, 1st-3rd July 2024

Deutscher Krebspreis 2024

Certificate awarded to Prof. Dr. Lena Maier-Hein by the German Cancer Society for outstanding scientific contributions in the field of translational cancer research. Dated June 21, 2024, and signed by officials.

The German Cancer Award 2024

was awarded to 

Prof. Dr. Lena Maier-Hein

for

Outstanding scientific achievements in translational cancer research

June 21st 2024, Berlin

IPCAI 2024 - CASCINATION & Zeiss Machine Learning in CAI Award

Award certificate for the CASCINATION & Zeiss Machine Learning in Computer-Assisted Interventions (CAI) Award, granted to multiple recipients for their paper on using test-time augmentation with synthetic data to address distribution shifts in spectral imaging. The award recognizes contributions to the field of medical imaging.

The CASCINATION & Zeiss Machine Learning in CAI Award

was awarded to

Ahmad Bin Qasim and Alessandro Motta, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Jan Sellner, Leonardo Ayala, Marco Hübner,  Marc Bressan, Berkin Özdemir, Karl Friedrich Kowalewski, Felix Nickel, Silvia Seidlitz and Lena Maier-Hein

for the paper titled

Test-time Augmentation with Synthetic Data Addresses Distribution Shifts in Spectral Imaging

June 19th 2024, Barcelona

CVPR 2024 Annotation Competition - 1st Place

1st place

was awarded to

Tim Rädsch

in the CVPR 2024 Annotation Competition

41th IIEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)

17th - 21th June 2024, Seattle, USA

Helmholtz Promotionspreis

Certificate for the Promotionspreis 2023 awarded to Dr. Leonardo Ayala from the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum for outstanding achievements during his promotion in the field of health research. Signed by the president of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, dated April 29, 2023.

The Helmholtz Promotionspreis 2023

was awarded to

Dr. Leonardo Ayala

for

"Outstanding achievements during the doctorate"

April 29th 2024, Berlin

BVM Award 2024 for Best Master Thesis

Certificate awarded for the BVM-Award 2024 to Christoph Julien Bender for the master's thesis on "Hardware-Related Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms for Photoacoustic Image Analysis," presented during the workshop on medical image processing from March 10-12, 2024, in Erlangen.

The BVM Award 2024

was awarded to

Christoph Julien Bender

for his master thesis

"Hardware-Related Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms for Photoacoustic Image Analysis"

March 12th 2024, Erlangen

Awards 2023

PhD Poster Prize 2023

Certificate awarded to Tom Rix for winning the PhD Poster Prize 2023 from the DKFZ International PhD Program. The award is for his poster presentation titled "Photoacoustic Image Synthesis with Deep Learning." The certificate is dated December 15, 2023, and signed by Dr. Lindsay Murrells.

PhD Poster Prize 2023

was awarded to

Tom Rix

for

"Photoacoustic Image Synthesis with Deep Learning"

December 15th 2023 in Heidelberg

Helmholtz AI - Best Digital Resource

Award certificate for "Best Digital Resource" showcasing the name Annika Reinke, alongside team members Emre Kavur, Hinu Tizabi, Paul Jäger, and Lena Maier-Hein. It highlights their work on "Metrics Reloaded," a framework for metric recommendations in image analysis, awarded in 2023.

Best Digital Resource Award

was awarded to

Annika Reinke, Emre Kavur, Minu Tizabi, Paul Jäger and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Metrics Reloaded - A framework for problem-aware metric recommendations for image analysis"

December 13th 2023

Richtzenhain Doctoral Prize 2023

Certificate awarded by the Walther and Christine Richtzenhain Foundation for the Richtzenhain Doctoral Prize 2023, recognizing Dr. Annika Reinke from the German Cancer Research Center for her doctoral thesis on improving biomedical image analysis validation. Date: November 24, 2023.

Richtzenhain Doctoral Prize 2023

was awarded to

Dr. rer. nat. Annika Reinke

for her outstanding doctoral thesis entitled

"Eliminating Flaws in Biomedical Image Analysis Validation"

November 24th 2023 in Heidelberg

Best Flash Talk Award

Certificate titled "Flash Talk Award" presented to Tim Rädsch for being selected as the Deep Dive presenter at the AI InSide Out conference, held at EMBL on October 16-17, 2023. The award highlights contributions related to HelmholtzNet and imaging benchmarks.

Best Flash Talk Award was awarded to

Tim Rädsch

for

"HelmholtzNet - A large-scale imaging benchmark for the grand challenges of our time"

in the "Opportunities" Category

from the

ELLIS and AIHealth AI inScide Out (Un-)Conference

October 16-17th in Heidelberg

MICCAI 2023 - Young Scientist Award

A certificate awarded to Silvia Seidlitz for the Young Scientist Award by the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Society. The award recognizes her work on "Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts," dated October 11, 2023.

Young Scientist Award was awarded to

Silvia Seidlitz, Jan Sellner, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Alessandro Motta, Berkin Özdemir, Beat Peter Müller-Stich, Felix Nickel and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts"

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 11th in Vancouver, Canada

MICCAI 2023 - Young Scientist Award

Certificate for the MICCAI Young Scientist Award presented to Jan Sellner for research on "Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts." The award acknowledges contributions from various collaborators associated with the German Cancer Research Center, dated October 11, 2023.

Young Scientist Award was awarded to

Jan Sellner, Silvia Seidlitz, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Alessandro Motta, Berkin Özdemir, Beat Peter Müller-Stich, Felix Nickel and Lena Maier-Hein

for

"Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometrical domain shifts"

from the

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society

October 11th in Vancouver, Canada

MICCAI 2023 - Best Challenge Reviewer Award

Certificate for the Best Challenge Reviewer Award presented to Patrick Godau from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, for achieving 2nd place. The award is part of the MICCAI 2023 conference held in Vancouver, Canada, from October 8 to 12, 2023.

Patrick Godau

was awarded the

2nd Place

Best Challenge Reviewer Award

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 8th to 12th 2023 in Vancouver, Canada

1st Place Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Certificate awarded for 1st place in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge for the Medtronic PitVis Award. The winning team includes Amine Yamlahti, Antoine Jund, Henri Smidt, Patrick Godau, and Lena Maier-Hein from the German Cancer Research Center. Presented at the MICCAI 2023 conference in Vancouver, Canada.

1st Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Antoine Jund, Finn-Henri Smidt, Patrick Godau and Lena Maier-Hein

in the Endoscopic Vision Challenge

26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on October 8th to 12th 2023 in Vancouver, Canada

Best PhD Talk Award

Certificate awarding the Best PhD Talk to Kris Dover for a presentation on "Unsupervised Sinzereal Transfer of Spectral Images with Convolutional Invertible Neural Networks" at the DKFZ PhD Retreat, held at Evangelische Tagungsstätte Löwenstein from July 17-19, 2023. Signed by Dr. Lindsay Murrell.

Kris Dreher

was awarded the

Best PhD Talk Award

for the best talk at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held at Evangelische Tagungsstätte Löwenstein from 17th-19th July 2023 for the talk entitled "Unsupervised sim2real transfer of spectral images with conditional invertible neural networks".

JBO/Neurophotonics 3-Minute Poster Competition - 3rd Place

3rd place was awarded to

Niklas Holzwarth

at the JBO/Neurophotonics 3-Minute Poster Competition

for

Clinical tattoo tomography

April, 2023

MICCAI Student-Author Registration (STAR) Award

Silvia Seidlitz & Jan Sellner
 

were granted the

MICCAI Student-Author Registration (STAR) Award

for

Semantic segmentation of surgical hyperspectral images under geometric domain shifts

March, 2023

Anton Fink Science Prize - Best scientific work

Text reads: "Anton Fink Science Prize for Artificial Intelligence, endowed with 10,000 euros."

Tim Rädsch

was awarded the

Anton Fink Wissenschaftspreis für Künstliche Intelligenz

for

'Beste Wissenschaftliche Arbeit' (Best scientific work)
 

February, 2023

Awards 2022

Best talk of the topic area

Alternative text: "Certificate recognizing the best presentation at the Herbsttagung of the German Society for Neurosurgery, held from October 27 to 29, 2022, in Leipzig. The title of the presentation is about the expansion of aerosol distribution and photoluminescence imaging in different oxygenation conditions."

Edgar Santos, Juan-Manuel Lopez-Navarro, Marco-Alejandro Suarez-Gutierrez, Pablo Albina Palmarola, Niklas Holzwarth, Lena Maier-Hein, Renán Sánchez-Porras, Johannes Woitzik

were awarded with the

'Bester Vortrag der Sektion' (Best talk of the topic area)

for

"Sichtbarmachung der vertikalen Ausbreitung von Spreading Depolarizations und unterschiedlicher regionaler Sauerstoffsättigungsmuster durch photoakustische Bildgebung in der Tiefe des gyrenzephalen Kortex"

from the 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie

Leipzig, October 27th-29st, 2022

IHU Surgical Action Triplet Award

Certificate awarded to Team SDS-HD for achieving 1st place at the 2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge. The award recognizes their project titled "Distilled-Skin: A Self-Distilled Skin Transformer Ensemble Network," presented at the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions.

1st Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Finn-Henri Smidt, Melanie Schellenberg, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Jan-Hinrich Nölke and Lena Maier-Hein

in the CholecTriplet2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Category: Presence Detection & Classification

 

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on September 18th-22nd 2022, Singapore

IHU Surgical Action Triplet Award

A certificate recognizing the team SDS-HD for winning 2nd place in the IHU Surgical Action Triplet Award at the CholecTriplet 2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge. The award is for the project titled "Distilled-Swin: A Self-distilled Swin Transformer Ensemble Network."

2nd Place was awarded to

Amine Yamlahi, Finn-Henri Smidt, Melanie Schellenberg, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Jan-Hinrich Nölke and Lena Maier-Hein

in the CholecTriplet2022 Endoscopic Vision Challenge

Category: Spatial Localization

 

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

held on September 18th-22nd 2022, Singapore

Polyp Detection in Endocv'22 Challenge - 1st place

This image is a certificate awarding first place to the team "SDS_RBS" from DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany, for their achievement in the Polyp Detection challenge at the EndoCV'22 competition, held in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2022 conference.

1st Place awarded to

Amine ElYamlahi, Patrick Godau, Thuy Nuong Tran, Lucas-Raphael Müller, Tim Adler, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Michael Baumgartner, Paul Jäger and Lena Maier-Hein

in the Polyp Detection in Endocv'22 Challenge

4th International Workshop on EndoscopicComputerVision in conjuction with 19th IEEE International Symposium Biomedical Imaging, IEEE ISBI 2022

Awards 2021

GIANA Polyp Classification Challenge - 1st place

Amine Yamlahi, Thuy Nuong Tran, Tobias Ross, Patrick Godau, Jan Sellner, Tim Adler, Silvia Seidlitz and Lena Maier-Hein

for the outstanding participation at

GIANA 2021 CHALLENGE

held on October 1st 2021.

MICCAI Educational Challenge - 1st place

A certificate from the MICCAI Educational Challenge 2021 awarded to Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi, and Carol H. Sudre for securing first place. It includes the date, September 30, 2021, and signatures from organizational officers.

Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi & Carol H. Sudre
 

won the 1st place in the

MICCAI Educational Challenge 2021
 

MICCAI September 30, 2021

IPCAI Audience Awards for Best Innovation: Runner-up

Certificate awarded for the Audience Award for Best Innovation: Runner-up at the IPCAI 2021 conference. Awarded to Niklas Holzwarth and team for the paper titled "Tattoo Tomography: Freehand 3D Photoacoustic Image Reconstruction with an Optical Pattern." Signed by Alfred Franz and Orcun Goksel.

Niklas Holzwarth, Melanie Schellenberg, Janek Gröhl, Kris Dreher, Jan-Hinrich Nölke,
Alexander Seitel, Minu D Tizabi, Beat P Müller-Stich, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded with the

Audience Award for Best Innovation: Runner-up

Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions
IPCAI 2021 June 22-23, 2021 Munich, Germany

IPCAI Distinguished Reviewer Award

Certificate awarded for distinguished review at the IPCAI 2021 conference, held in Munich, Germany, from June 22-23, 2021. The award is presented to Tobias Ross, signed by Alfred Franz and Orcun Goksel, the program chairs.

Tobias Roß

was awarded with the

IPCAI 2021: Distinguished Reviewer Award

The 12th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2021 June 22-23, 2021 Munich, Germany

Best PhD Talk Award

Certificate awarding the "Best PhD Talk" to Annika Reinke for her presentation titled "Maximizing the impact of biomedical image analysis competitions" at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held virtually from July 5-6, 2021. Signed by Dr. Lindsay Murrells, PhD Program Manager.

Annika Reinke
 

was awarded with the

Best PhD Talk Award
 

for reiceiving the best PhD Talk prize at the DKFZ PhD Retreat held virtually from 5-6 July 2021 for the talk entitled "Maximizing the impact of bimedical image analysis competitions".

 

DKFZ International PhD Program, PhD Retreat 2021

MIDL 2021 - Audience Award

Certificate awarded for the "Audience Award - Best Short Oral Presentations" at the MIDL conference in Lübeck 2021. It lists multiple recipients and recognizes their paper on the limitations of performance metrics in biomedical language analysis.

Annika Reinke, Matthias Eisenmann, Minu Dietlinde Tizabi, Carole H. Sudre, Tim Rädsch, Michaela Antonelli, Tal Arbel, Spyridon Bakas, M. Jorge Cardoso, Veronika Cheplygina, Keyvan Farahani, Ben Glocker, Doreen Heckmann-Nötzel, Fabian Isensee, Pierre Jannin, Charles Kahn, Jens Kleesiek, Tahsin Kurc, Michal Kozubek, Bennett A. Landman, Geert Litjens, Klaus Maier-Hein, Anne Lousise Martel, Bjoern Menze, Henning Müller, Jens Petersen, Maricio Reyes, Nicola Rieke, Bram Stieltjes, Ronals M. Summers, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Bram van Ginneken, Annette Kopp-Schneider, Paul Jäger, Lena Maier-Hein

were awarded with the

Audience Award - Best short oral presentation

for the paper

Common limitations of performance metrics in biomedical image analysis
 

MIDL Lübeck 2021

Awards 2020

Winner of the Datathon for Grand Challenges on Climate Change

Award certificate for Melanie Schellenberg recognizing her achievement in the "Datathon for Grand Challenges on Climate Change," held from November 5-6, 2020. Organized by the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy in collaboration with various research institutions and companies, including the German Aerospace Center and NVIDIA.

Melanie Schellenberg

was awarded

for winning the

DATATHON FOR GRAND CHALLENGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
 

Organized by the

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Berlin, November 5th-6th 2020

Winner of the Datathon for Grand Challenges on Climate Change

Award certificate presented to Patrick Scholz for winning the "Datathon for Grand Challenges on Climate Change," held from November 5-6, 2020. Organized by the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy, with various partner institutions listed at the bottom.

Patrick Scholz

was awarded

for winning the

 

DATATHON FOR GRAND CHALLENGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
 

 

Organized by the

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

Berlin, November 5th-6th 2020

MICCAI Educational Challenge

Annika Reinke, Matthias Eisenmann, Laura Aguilera Saiz, Sinan Onogur, Leonardo Antonio Ayala Menjivar and Peter Maximilian Full

won the

3rd Place MICCAI Educational Challenge

23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, 4-8 Ocotber 2020 Lima Peru

MICCAI 2020 - Best Challenge Reviewer Award

Certificate awarded to Patrick Scholz for achieving 1st place in the MICCAI 2020 Best Challenge Reviewer Award. It includes details of the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, held virtually in Lima, Peru, along with signatures from committee members.

Patrick Scholz

was awarded with the

MICCAI 2020 Best Challenge Reviewer Award

23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions, 4-8 October 2020 Lima Peru (VIRTUAL)

3rd Place DMEA-Nachwuchspreis 2020

Certificate awarded to Benjamin Johannes Mittmann for securing 3rd place in the DMEA Nachwuchspreis 2020, recognizing outstanding practical projects in the field of Health IT. The certificate mentions his affiliation with Technische Hochschule Ulm and the title of his master's thesis, "Multi-Modality Fiducial Marker For Image Registration In Navigated Medical Interventions."

Benjamin Mittmann

was awarded

with the

DMEA-Nachwuchspreis (3. Platz)

for his master thesis

Mulit-Modality Fiducial Marker For Image Registration in Navigated Medical Interventions

 

Berlin, July 20th, 2020

Awards 2019

Thomas-Behr Förderpreis der MGN 2019

D. Gröner, A. Seitel, M. Eisenmann, B. Pekdemir, L. Aguilera Saiz, P. Sridharan, CT. Nguyen, C. Happel, A. Sabet, A. Franz, L. Maier-Hein and F. Grünwald

were awarded

with the

Thomas-Behr Förderpreis der MGN 2019

for the poster

"Fine Needle Aspiration in a Thyroid-like Ultrasound Phantom:
Can Electromagnetic Guidance Pave the Way to Multiangle Out-ofplane Approuches?"

 

Mittelrheinische Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin e. V.
Fulda, November 9th 2019

Young Investigator Award

Certificate presented by the International Society for Medical Innovation and Technology recognizing L. Avila, S. Winkert, J. Grohl, M. Herrera, A. Hernández-Aguillera, A. Vermouri, E. Santos, and L. Maier-Hein with the Young Investigator Award at the 31st International Conference for their work on live monitoring of hemodynamic changes.

L. Ayala, S. Wirkert, J. Gröhl, M. Herrera, A. Hernandez-Aguilera, A. Vermuri, E. Santos and L. Maier-Hein

were awarded

with the

Young Investigator Award

during the 31st International Conference SMIT 2019

for the outstanding contribution:

Deep Learning Approach to live Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis

Heilbronn, October 11th 2019

OR 2.0 andn MCLN 2019 Bench to Bedside Award

Certificate of Award presented to a group of individuals for their work titled "Live Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis." Awarded at the MICCAI Conference in October 2019, sponsored by Intuitive. The certificate is framed with an ornate border.

Leonardo Ayala, Janek Groehl, Adrian Hernandez, Edgar Santos, Sebastian Wirkert, Anant Vermuri, Mildred Herrera and Lena Maier-Hein

received the

Certificate of Award for

Bench to Bedside: "Life Monitoring of Hemodynamic Changes with Multispectral Image Analysis"

 

MICCAI Conference, Shenzhen, China, October 14th, 2019

MICCAI Fellow 2019

Certificate recognizing Lena Maier-Hein as a Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI), awarded on October 18, 2019. The document features the MICCAI logo and includes a signature from the society's board.

Lena Maier-Hein

was elected a Fellow of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society at MICCAI

Shenzhen, China, October 14th, 2019

SMIT Science Slam - First Prize

A certificate presented by the International Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT) awarding Kris Dreher and Niklas Holzwarth with the First Prize for the Science Slam during the 31st Conference in Heilbronn on October 11, 2019.

Kris Dreher and Niklas Holzwarth

won the first prize of the Science Slam

during the 31st SMIT Conference 2019 in Heilbronn, October 11th, 2019

SMIT Science Slam - Third Prize

Certificate awarded to Laura Aguilera, Patmaa Sridharan, and Mattias Eisemann for winning Third Prize in the Science Slam at the 31st Conference of the International Society for Medical Innovation and Technology. The event took place in Heilbronn on October 11, 2019.

Laura Aguilera, Patmaa Sridharan and Matthias Eisenmann
 

won the third prize of the Science Slam

during the 31st SMIT Conference 2019 in Heilbronn, October 11th, 2019

Awards 2018

IPCAI 2018 - Best Presentation Award

Certificate of the Best Presentation Award Runner-up at the 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, held in Berlin, June 20-21, 2018. Awarded for the paper on harnessing the potential of an endoscopic robot with self-supervised learning.

T. Ross, D. Zimmerer, A. Vemuri, F. Isensee, S. Bodenstedt, F. Both, P. Kessler, M. Wagner, B. Müller-Stich, H. Kenngott, S. Speidel, K. Maier-Hein and L. Maier-Hein

are awarded the

Best Presentation Award Runner-up IPCAI 2018

for the presentation

"Exploiting the potential of unlabeled endoscopic video data with self-supervised learning"

June, 20th-21st, 2018​

Medical Image Analysis/MICCAI Best Paper Award

A certificate awarded to Lena Maier-Hein, PhD, for the Best Paper at the Medical Image Analysis/MICCAI conference. The paper is titled "Dual-modality endoscopic probe for tissue surface shape reconstruction and hyperspectral imaging enabled by deep neural networks," published in Medical Image Analysis, Volume 48, August 2018.

Lena Maier-Hein, PhD

is awarded the

Medical Image Analysis/MICCAI Best Paper Award

for the paper

"Dual-modality endoscopic probe for tissue surface shape renconstruction and hyperspectral imaging enabled by deep neural networks"​

Awards 2017

Preis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaft

Certificate awarded by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences to Professor Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein for outstanding achievements in cancer research. The award is supported by the Monika Kutzner Foundation for cancer promotion. The document is dated December 1, 2017, and includes a handwritten signature.

Die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

verleiht

Professor Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein

Für herausragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Krebsforschung

den

Preis der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Berlin, December 1st, 2017

Best pitch at the Science Sparks Startup event

Alternative text: "A large bank check from Commerzbank for €2,500, awarded in 2017 for the DKFZ Dragon's Den Competition. The check is presented to winners Sebastian Wichert, Ahmad Vemuri, and Lena Maur-Hein, dated September 19, 2017, with Heidelberg as the place of issue."

Sebastian Wirkert, Anant S. Vemuri and Lena Maier-Hein

are awarded the

Best pitch at the Science Sparks Startups event

for the presentation on

"Rainbow Surgery"​

Heidelberg, September 19th, 2017

ISCAS Young Investigator Best Paper Award

The image displays an award certificate for Ms. E. Stanau, recognizing her as the recipient of the ISCAs Koh Young Young Investigator Best Paper Award. The award acknowledges her presentation on in vivo analyses related to intraoperative registration with fluorescent markers at the 21st Annual Conference in Barcelona, 2017.

E. Stenau, T. Simpfendörfer, M. Azizian, W. P. Liu, K. K. Anderson, D. Bergman, O. Mohareri, J. M. Sorger, D. Teber, L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

ISCAS Koh Young Young Investigator Best Paper Award

for the presentation on

“In vivo robustness analyses of intraoperative registration with fluorescent markers."

Barcelona, Spain, June 20th-24th, 2017

2017 Henry N. Wagner Jr, MD, Image of the Year Award

A certificate titled "2017 Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD, Image of the Year Award" recognizing research on dual-labeled PSMA-inhibitors for prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy. It lists recipients and organizers, including names and titles, and notes the award was presented at a meeting in Denver, Colorado, in June 2017.

A. C. Baranski, M. Schaefer, U. Bauder-Wuest, M. Roscher, J. Schmidt, E. Stenau, T. Simpfendoerfer, L. Maier-Hein, B. Hadaschik, U. Haberkorn, M. Eder, K. Kopka

 are granted the

2017 Henry N. Wagner, Jr, MD, Image of the Year Award

 for the abstract image used in

“Preclinical evaluation of dual-labeled PSMA-inhibitors for the diagnosis and therapy of prostata cancer."

conhIT-Nachwuchspreis

Two smiling individuals hold large ceremonial checks, celebrating their achievements at an event. The checks indicate prize amounts and recognition for their work. The background features a conference setting with various attendees and banners, suggesting a lively atmosphere.

Janek Gröhl  (Master Thesis) and Dominique Cheray (Bachelor Thesis)

are granted the

the conhiT- Nachwuchspreis 2017

 

for the best Master and Bachelor Thesis.

IPCAI Bench to Bedside Award 2017

Certificate for the "Bench to Bedside Award" presented at the 8th International Congress on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions in Barcelona, Spain. Awarded to Alfred Franz and others for their paper on the EchoTrack guidance approach for thyroid gland nodule ablation.

A. Franz, A. Seitel, N. Bopp, C. Erbelding, S. Delorme, D. Cheray, F. Grünwald, H. Korkusuz, L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

Bench to Bedside Award

 for the paper

“First clinical use of the EchoTrack guidance approach for radiofrequency ablation of thyroid gland nodules."

Barcelona, Spain, JUne 20th-21st, 2017

BVM-Award 2017 for the best PhD dissertation

Certificate of the BVM Award 2017 awarded to Dr. Sandy Engelhardt for the dissertation on Computer-Assisted Quantitative Mitral Valve Surgery. The award is associated with the workshops on image processing in medicine held in Heidelberg from March 12 to 14, 2017.

The dissertation with the title

Computer-Assisted Quantitative Mitral Valve Surgery

by

Dr. sc. hum. Sandy Engelhardt

has been awarded the

BVM-Award 2017 for the best PhD thesis 

on the Workshop „Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin“ in Heidelberg, March 12th-14th, 2017.

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euro by the Chili GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany.

Awards 2016

KUKA IJCASRS Best Paper Award 2016 3rd Prize

Two women stand smiling together in a large hall, each giving a thumbs-up. One holds a certificate titled "KUKA LUCAS Best Paper Award." The setting is formal, with rows of chairs and elegant lighting in the background, indicating a conference or award ceremony.

M. Ganz, D. Kondermann, J. Andrula, G. M. Knubben and L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

KUKA IJCASRS Best Paper Award 2016 3rd Prize

for the Paper

“Crowdsouring for error detection in cortical surface delineatiions."

Dr. Emil Salzer-Prize 2016

Certificate awarded by the German Cancer Research Center for the Dr. Emil Salzer Prize for Cancer Research 2016, featuring a monetary prize of 5,000 Euros. It recognizes Prof. Dr. Lena Maier-Hein for her contributions to computer-assisted medical interventions. Dated December 13, 2016.

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Lena Maier-Hein

is granted

the Dr. Emil Salzer-Prize 2016

form the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, December 13th, 2016

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie - Presentation Award

Certificate awarded by the German Society for Urology for scientific work titled "Ultrasound-Navigated Kidney Puncture Using a Mobile Electromagnetic Tracking System." Presented to authors T. Simpfendorfer, A. Franz, C. Gasch, L. Maier-Hein, M. Hohenfellner, D. Teber, receiving the 2nd Prize at the 68th Congress in Leipzig, 2016.

T. Simpfendörfer, A. Franz, C. Gasch, L. Maier-Hein, M. Hohenfellner and D. Teber

are granted the

2nd presentation award (experimentally) from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie e. V.

for the scientific work

“Sonographisch navigierte Nierenpunktion unter Verwendung eines mobilen elektromagnetischen Trackingsystems."

PhD Poster Presentation Award

Certificate awarding Esther Stenau a 450 Euro travel stipend for the 2016 PhD Poster Presentation. The awarded poster focuses on "Robust augmented reality guidance with fluorescent markers in laparoscopic surgery." Issued by the German Cancer Research Center, dated November 18, 2016, signed by Dr. Lindsay Murrells.

Esther Stenau

 is granted the

2016 PhD Poster Presentation Award
 

 for the Poster

“Robust augmented reality guidance with fluorescent markers in laparoscopic surgery”

IPCAI 2016 - Best Paper Award

Certificate for the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2016. The award is presented to a group of researchers for their work on augmented reality guidance in laparoscopic surgery.

Esther Wild, Dogu Teber, Daniel Schmid, Tobias Simpfendörfer, Michael Müller, Ann-Christin Baranski, Hannes Kenngott, Klaus Kopka und Lena Maier-Hein

 are granted the

Best Paper Award – Audience IPCAI 2016

 for the project

“Robust Augmented Reality Guidance with Fluorescent Markers in Laparoscopic Surgery”

Posterpreis Junge Wissenschaft 2016

Certificate recognizing Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein for winning 1st place in the 2016 Poster Prize for Young Scientists at the IV Interdisciplinary Congress on Young Science and Practice. The theme focused on the future of medicine in a digital world. Awarded in Berlin, June 2, 2016.

Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the Posterprice 

IV. Interdisziplinären Kongresses Junge Wissenschaft und Praxis

for the Poster

"Von Eminenz-basierter zu Evidenz-basierter Medizin".

Life Science meets IT Hackathon 2016

A group of eleven people poses for a photo, wearing green shirts with the text “healthhacker.” They are celebrating an achievement, with some holding trophies and certificates. The background features greenery and a modern building structure.

Christoph Kolb, Matthias Eisenmann, Christian Weber and Jens Petersen

participated in the Life Science meets IT Hackathon (www.lifesciencemeetsit.eu) and won both the audience award and the award for "Best Business Case".

Together with their colleagues from the surgical department of the Heidelberg University Hospital they developed a system that greatly simplifies teaching of minimally invasive/laparoscopic surgery. The system allows experienced surgeons to virtually interact with the instruments of a learning surgeon and to guide them similar to classical surgery. The awards include participation in a Europe-wide startup contest and a comprehensive founding package.

Awards 2015

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderpreis 2015

Certificate from the Thomas-Gessmann Foundation awarding the Thomas-Gessmann Förderpreis 2015 to Justin Iszatt. It recognizes outstanding academic achievements for a bachelor's thesis titled "Multimedia-Based Development of a Multimedia-Learning Notebook for Estimating Mastery Levels in Subjects." Includes signatures from the board members.

Justin Iszatt

is granted the

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2015

for

the Bachelorthesis

"Multispektrale Bildgebung in der Medizin - Entwicklung eines multispektralen Laparoskops zur Schätzung des Sauerstoffgehalts in Geweben"

Curac Best Paper Award 2015

Certificate awarded for the 1st prize at CURAC 2015 presented to Eric Heim and team for their work titled "Crowd-supported Organ Management: Opportunities and Limits," sponsored by KUKA. The certificate is dated September 18, 2015, and signed by professors from the awarding body.

Eric Heim, Tobias Ross, Tobias Norajitra, Marco Nolden, Keno März, Daniel Kondermann, Stefanie Speidel, Klaus Maier-Hein and Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

Curac Best Paper Award 2015

for the paper

“Crowdgestützte Organsegmentierung: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen”

IPCAI Philips Best Presentation Award

Certificate awarded for 1st place in the “Audience Best Presentation Award” at the 6th International Congress on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions. The award recognizes the team for their work on "Toward Knowledge-Based Liver Surgery - Holistic Information Processing for Surgical Decision Support."

Keno März, Mophammedreza Hafezi, Tobias Weller, Marco Nolden, Nassim Fard, Ali Majlesara, Sascha Zelzer, Maria Maleshkova, Mykola Volovyk, Negin Gharabaghi, Martin Wagner, Golnaz Emami, Sandy Engelhardt, Andreas Fetzer, Hannes Kenngott, Nahid Rezai, Achim Rettinger, Rudi Studer, Arianeb Mehrabi und Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

Philips / IPCAI Audience Best Presentation Award

for the presentation of the paper

“Towards Knowledge-Based Liver Surgery - Holistic Information Processing for Surgical Decision Support”

ISCAS Kikuchi Frugal Technology Award

A certificate awarding the ISCAS Kikuchi Frugal Technology Award for research on simultaneous electromagnetic tracking and ultrasound imaging in ventilated swine cadavers. The certificate includes the names of researchers, event details, and is dated June 24-27, 2015, at the Hotel NH Constanza in Barcelona, Spain.

A. Franz, T. Simpfendörfer, C. Garoussi, A. Majlesara, K. März, H. Meinzer, A. Mehrabi, D. Teber und L. Maier-Hein

are granted the

ISICAS KIKUCHI FRUGAL TECHNOLOGY AWARD

for the paper
“Echotrack for simultaneous EM tracking and US imaging: initial experience in ventilated swine cadaver” 

Awards 2014

Fachbereichspreis Adrian Winterstein

Certificate of achievement awarded by the Department of Computer Science at Hochschule Darmstadt to Adrian Winterstein for the best Master's thesis. It includes the signatures of the Dean and the Program Director.

Adrian Winterstein


is granted the

Fachbereichspreis for the best Master Thesis 

titled,

"Ein ultraschallbasiertes Computerassistenzsystem mit integriertem elektromagnetischem Feldgenerator für die Leberchirurgie: Konzeption und Realisierung im Rahmen von MITK ”

CARE 2024 - KUKA Best Paper Award

Certificate for the KUKA Best Paper Award at MICCAI 2014, recognizing the research titled "Endoscopic Sheffield Index for Unsupervised In Vivo Spectral Band Selection." It lists the authors and includes the event details and date of presentation, September 18, 2014, in Boston.

Sebastian Wirkert, Neil T. Clancy, Danail Stoyanov, Shobhit Arya, George B. Hanna, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Peter Sauer, Daniel S. Elson and Lena Maier-Hein

are granted the

KUKA Best Paper Award MICCAI 2014

for the paper

Endoscopic Sheffield Index for Unsuspervised In Vivo Spectral Band Selection

BVM Price 2014 for the best Scientific Work

Certificate awarded at the "Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2014" conference, recognizing the best scientific work. The award is presented to Thomas Köhler, Sven Hase, Sebastian Bauer, Jakob Wasza, Thomas Kilgus, Lena Maier-Hein, Hubertus Feußner, and Joachim Hornegger for their contribution on "Outlier Detection for Multi-Sensor Super-Resolution in Hybrid 3D Endoscopy."

Thomas Köhler, Sven Haase, Sebastian Bauer, Jakob Wasza, Thomas Kilgus, Lena Maier-Hein, Hubertus Feußner and Joachim Hornegger

is granted the

BVM Pirce 2014 for the best Scientific Work

for the presentation

Outlier Detection for Multi-Sensor Super-Resolution in Hybrid 3D Endoscopy.

Awards before 2014

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price 2013

A certificate awarded to Lena Maier-Hein for outstanding scientific work, presented by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the President of the German Research Foundation. It recognizes her achievement with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2013, dated June 3, 2013.

Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price 2013

Prinz von Hohenzollern Inovation price 2013

Transparent award trophy featuring the engraved text "Prinz von Hohenzollern Innovationspreis 2013" at the top, and "Medical Embedded Systems" below. The trophy rests on a wooden base and reflects a modern, professional design, symbolizing recognition in the field of innovation.

Medical Embedded System

is granted the

Prinz von Hohenzollern Inovationprice 2013

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2013

Certificate awarding the Thomas-Gessmann Prize 2013 to Keno März for outstanding student achievements in medical informatics. The award recognizes his master’s thesis titled “Computer-Assisted Patient Administration with Mobile Electromagnetic Care Generator.” Signed by the foundation board.

Keno März

is granted the

Thomas-Gessmann-Förderprize 2013

for

the Masterthesis

"Computer-Assistierte Punktionen unter Ultraschallführung mit einem mobilen elektromagnetischen Feldgenerator"

EAU Hans Marberger Award 2013

Certificate awarded by the European Association of Urology to J. Rassweiler for receiving the EAU Hans Marberger Award 2013. The award recognizes the best European paper on Minimally Invasive Surgery published in 2012, titled "iPad-Assisted Percutaneous Access to the Kidney Using Marker-Based Navigation: Initial Clinical Experience."

J. Rassweiler, M. Müller, M. Fangerau, J. Klein, A. Goezen, P. Pereira, H.-P. Meinzer and D. Teber

is granted the

EAU Hans Marberger Award 2013

for

the best European paper

iPad-Assisted Percutaneous Access to the Kidney Using Marker-Based Navigation: Initial Clinical Experience

BVM Award for the best Poster

Certificate of the BVM Prize 2013 awarded to Alfred Franz for "MITK-US: Real-time processing of ultrasound images in MITK." The certificate includes the event details and signatures of the awarding professors, acknowledging excellence in medical image processing.

Alfred Franz

is granted the

BVM Award for the best Poster

for

MITK-US: Echtzeitverarbeitung von Ultraschallbildern in MITK

BVM Award for the best Scientific work

Certificate for the BVM Prize 2013, awarded for "Best Scientific Work." The document lists the winners: Keno Märtz, Alfred Franz, Bram Stieltjes, Alexandra Zahn, Alexander Seitel, Justin Iszatt, Boris Radeleff, Hans-Peter Meinzer, and Lena Maier-Hein, recognized for their contribution in medical image processing.

Keno März, Alfred Franz, Bram Stieltjes, Alexandra Zahn, Alexander Seitel, Justin Iszatt, Boris Radeleff, Hans-Peter Meinzer, Lena Maier-Hein

is granted the

BVM Award for the best Scientific work

for the project

Navigierte ultraschallgeführte Leberpunktion mit integriertem EM Feldgenerator

Best Graduate Award 2012

Alfred Franz

is granted the

Best Graduate Award

from the 

DFG Research Training Group 1126 - Intelligent Surgery

MFG Talente-Preis, MFG Stiftung Baden Württemberg, 2012

The image is a certificate for the Karl Steinbuch Scholarship awarded to Alfred Michael Franz from the University of Heidelberg for a project on a navigation system for minimally invasive tumor treatment. The certificate is dated March 16, 2012, and includes signatures.

Alfred Franz

is granted the

MFG Talente Preis 2012

for the project

A navigational system for minimally-invasive tumor therapy

German High Tech Champions (GHTC) Award

A certificate awarded by Fraunhofer for the "MITK pocket - Live the Mobile Dream" project, developed by Markus Fangarau. It recognizes achievements in applied research in medical imaging, presented at RSNA 2011, with a prize amount of €10,000.

The

German High Tech Champions AWARD

has been awarded to

Markus Fangerau and team

for the Business Case entitled

MITK pocket - Live the Mobile Dream

The Award is endowered with a price money of 10.000 €.

SMIT 2011 - Second Prize Oral Presentation

A certificate awarded by The Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, recognizing a second prize for an oral presentation titled "Markerless Augmented Reality (AR) Guidance with Optical Techniques for 3D Surface Reconstruction," dated September 15, 2011. It features a decorative border and the organization's logo.

The Society for Medical Innovation and Technology

honoured

Lena Meier-Hein and team

with the

ORAL PRESENTATION SECOND PRIZE

for the outstanding contribution:

Markerless augmented Reality (AR) Guidance with optical Techniques for 3D Surface Reconstruction

Ingrid zu Solms Science Award 2009/2010

Certificate awarded by the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation to Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein for winning the Ingrid zu Solms Science Prize for Natural Sciences 2009/2010. The award recognizes her outstanding work on motion compensation and computer guidance for percutaneous abdominal interventions. Prize amount: 3,000 euros.

Ingrid zu Solms Science Award 2009/2010

in the amount of 3,000 €uro has been awarded to

Mrs. Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
Division Medical and Biological Informatics

Waltraud-Lewenz Price 2008

A certificate from the German Cancer Research Center awards the Waltraud-Lewenz Prize 2008 for €7,500 to Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein. Dated July 21, 2009, it signifies recognition based on the council's decision, emphasizing contributions in medical and biological informatics.

The German Cancer Research Center

has on the basis of the decision of the Scientific Council awarded the

Waltraud Lewenz Price 2008

in the amount of 7,500 €uro to

Mrs. Dr. Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
Division Medical and Biological Informatics

BVM 2008 - Award for best presentation

Certificate awarded for the best scientific presentation at the "Workshop on Image Processing for Medicine" held from April 6 to 8, 2008, in Berlin. The award, titled "BVM Prize 2008," is presented to Lena Maier-Hein for her work on targeting liver lesions using a navigation system.

The BVM Award 2008 for best presentation

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein

for the paper

In vivo Targeting of Liver Lesions with a Navigation System based on Fiducial Needles.

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euros.

Berlin, April 8, 2008

Best Graduate Award

A certificate titled "Best Graduate Award 2007" is awarded to Lena Maier-Hein for her outstanding contribution to a research project in medical informatics. The document includes signatures from faculty members and is dated December 1, 2007, emphasizing the recognition of excellence in her field.

The Best Graduate Award of the Research Training Group 1126 of the year 2007

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein

The prize is sponsored with 500 Euros.

Heidelberg, Dezember 1st, 2007

BVM 2007 - Best Poster Award

The image is a certificate recognizing the first prize awarded at the "Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2007" conference. It honors Lena Maier-Hein and others for the best poster contribution on a topic related to a simulation for evaluating navigation systems in the liver, with a prize of 250 Euros.

The BVM Award 2007 for best poster

has been awarded to

Lena Maier-Hein, Fank Pianka, Sascha Müller, Alexander Seitel,Urte Rietdorf, Ivo Wolf, Bruno Schmied, Hans-Peter Meinzer

for the contribution

Atembewebungssimulator für die in-vitro Evaluation von
Weichteilgewebe-Navigationssystemen in der Leber
 

The prize is sponsored with 250 Euros.

Munich, Germany, March 27, 2007

SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium 2007: Nomination for Best Student Paper Award

Certificate text recognizing Lena Maier-Hein for the Michael B. Merickel Best Student Paper Award. The award is for her paper titled "In-vitro evaluation of a novel needle-based soft tissue navigation system with a respiratory liver motion simulator." Presented at SPIE's Medical Imaging Symposium, February 2007.

Lena Maier-Hein

has been nominated for the

SPIE The Michael B Merickel Best Student Paper Award

for the contribution

In-vitro evaluation of a novel needle-based soft tissue navigation system with a respiratory liver motion simulator

San Diego, USA, 22. Februar 2007

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