Ken Herrmann

Ken Herrmann

Chair Department of Nuclear Medicine

University Hospital Essen

Publications

2026

An explainable transformer model learning from entire treatment timelines for pan-cancer risk profiling across healthcare systems Philipp Keyl, Niklas Kiermeyer, Jonah Bosserhoff, Tim Lenfers, Thibault Niederhauser, Bowen Fan, Thomas Schnake, Simon Schallenberg, Fabio Aubele, Solveig Kuss, Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Philipp Jurmeister, Moon Kim, Sebastian Bauer, Nikolaos Bechrakis, Michael Forsting, Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Martin Glas, Viktor Grünwald, Boris Hadaschik, Ken Herrmann, Stefan Kasper-Virchow, Rainer Kimmig, Stephan Lang, Ina Pretzell, Tienush Rassaf, Alexander Rösch, Jens T. Siveke, Maja Guberina, Ulrich Sure, Marc Wichert, Michael Ingrisch, Kristian Unger, Jürgen Behr, Daniel Teupser, Christian G. Stief, Julia Mayerle, Nadia Harbeck, Amanda Tufman, Jens Ricke, Lars H. Lindner, Siegfried Priglinger, Günter Höglinger, Sven Mahner, Martin Canis, Lucie Heinzerling, Christine Spitzweg, Alpaslan Tasdogan, Matthias Totzeck, Anja Welt, Marcel Wiesweg, C. Benedikt Westphalen, Reinhard Thasler, Fady Albashiti, Grégoire Montavon, Nicola Miglino, Zsolt Balazs, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon, Volker Heinemann, Claus Belka, Sylvia Hartmann, Andreas Wicki, Felix Nensa, Dirk Schadendorf, Michael Krauthammer, Klaus-Robert Müller, Martin Schuler, Frederick Klauschen, Jens Kleesiek, Julius Keyl medRxiv Salvage Radiotherapy Confers an Overall Survival Advantage in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer: Evidence from the International PROMISE Registry Nika Guberina, Madeleine J. Karpinski, Maja Guberina, Sebastian Hoberück, Matthias Miederer, Tobias Hölscher, Isabel Rauscher, Matthias Eiber, Andrew Nguyen, Lela Theus, Matteo Bauckneht, Helen Scholtissek, Kambiz Rahbar, Jonathan Miksch, Daniele Antonio Pizzuto, Karolien Goffin, Caner Civan, Shima F. Reinwand, Andreas Stang, Jens Kleesiek, Anja Merkel-Jens, Lale Umutlu, Alfonso Santangelo, Timo F. W. Soeterik, Stephan Beintner-Skawran, Andrej Vondrak, Anders Bjartell, Laura Evangelista, Sazan Rasul, Marcin Miszczyk, Adrien Holzgreve, Gabriel T. Sheikh, Andrea Di Giorgio, Andrea Farolfi, Ken Herrmann, Boris Hadaschik, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Martin Stuschke Journal of Nuclear Medicine Explainable AI Predicts Hematoxicity from Cancer Treatment Using Multimodal Real-World Data Julius Keyl, Philipp Keyl, Tim Lenfers, René Hosch, Niklas Kiermeyer, Simon Schallenberg, Moon Kim, Sebastian Bauer, Nikolaos Bechrakis, Michael Forsting, Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Sied Kebir, Viktor Grünwald, Boris Hadaschik, Johannes Haubold, Ken Herrmann, Stefan Kasper-Virchow, Rainer Kimmig, Stephan Lang, Tienush Rassaf, Alexander Rösch, Dirk Schadendorf, Jens T. Siveke, Martin Stuschke, Ulrich Sure, Matthias Totzeck, Anja Welt, Marcel Wiesweg, Jan Egger, Sylvia Hartmann, Grégoire Montavon, Felix Nensa, Klaus-Robert Müller, Martin Schuler, Jens Kleesiek, Frederick Klauschen medRxiv Screening for patients at risk for cardiac amyloidosis via electronic health records: A multicenter machine learning development and validation study Clemens P. Spielvogel, David Kersting, David Haberl, Maximilian Autherith, Laurenz Hauptmann, Josef Yu, Juliane Hennenberg, Kilian Kluge, Moon Kim, Stephan Settelmeier, Jing Ning, Katarina Kumpf, Markus Köfler, Felix Hofer, Katharina Mascherbauer, Julia Mascherbauer, Andreas Kammerlander, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger, Gregor Kasprian, Tienush Rassaf, Jens Kleesiek, Ken Herrmann, Philipp Bartko, Christian Hengstenberg, Marcus Hacker, Raffaella Calabretta, Christian Nitsche medRxiv Region-Normalized DPO for Medical Image Segmentation under Noisy Judges Hamza Kalisch, Constantin Seibold, Jens Kleesiek, Ken Herrmann, Frederic Jonske arXiv

2025

AutoPET Challenge on Fully Automated Lesion Segmentation in Oncologic PET/CT Imaging, Part 2: Domain Generalization Jakob Dexl, Sergios Gatidis, Marcel Früh, Katharina Jeblick, Andreas Mittermeier, Anna Theresa Stüber, Balthasar Schachtner, Johanna Topalis, Matthias P. Fabritius, Sijing Gu, Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan, Jeff VanOss, Jin Ye, Junjun He, Anissa Alloula, Bartłomiej W. Papież, Zacharia Mesbah, Romain Modzelewski, Matthias Hadlich, Zdravko Marinov, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Fabian Isensee, Klaus Maier-Hein, Adrian Galdran, Konstantin Nikolaou, Christian la Fougère, Moon Kim, Nico Kallenberg, Jens Kleesiek, Ken Herrmann, Rudolf A. Werner, Michael Ingrisch, Clemens C. Cyran, Thomas Küstner Journal of Nuclear Medicine CT-GRAPH: Hierarchical Graph Attention Network for Anatomy-Guided CT Report Generation Hamza Kalisch, Fabian Hörst, Jens Kleesiek, Ken Herrmann, Constantin Seibold 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW) Leveraging Sarcopenia index by automated CT body composition analysis for pan cancer prognostic stratification Katarzyna Borys, Johannes Haubold, Julius Keyl, Maria A. Bali, Riccardo De Angelis, Kévin Brou Boni, Nicolas Coquelet, Judith Kohnke, Giulia Baldini, Lennard Kroll, Sara Schramm, Andreas Stang, Eugen Malamutmann, Jens Kleesiek, Moon Kim, Stefan Kasper-Virchow, Jens T. Siveke, Marcel Wiesweg, Anja Merkel-Jens, Benedikt Michael Schaarschmidt, Viktor Grünwald, Sebastian Bauer, Arzu Oezcelik, Servet Bölükbas, Ken Herrmann, Rainer Kimmig, Stephan Lang, Jürgen Treckmann, Martin Stuschke, Boris Hadaschik, Lale Umutlu, Michael Forsting, Dirk Schadendorf, Christoph M. Friedrich, Martin Schuler, René Hosch, Felix Nensa npj Digital Medicine Decoding pan-cancer treatment outcomes using multimodal real-world data and explainable artificial intelligence Julius Keyl, Philipp Keyl, Grégoire Montavon, René Hosch, Alexander Brehmer, Liliana Mochmann, Philipp Jurmeister, Gabriel Dernbach, Moon Kim, Sven Koitka, Sebastian Bauer, Nikolaos Bechrakis, Michael Forsting, Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Martin Glas, Viktor Grünwald, Boris Hadaschik, Johannes Haubold, Ken Herrmann, Stefan Kasper-Virchow, Rainer Kimmig, Stephan Lang, Tienush Rassaf, Alexander Rösch, Dirk Schadendorf, Jens T. Siveke, Martin Stuschke, Ulrich Sure, Matthias Totzeck, Anja Welt, Marcel Wiesweg, Hideo A. Baba, Felix Nensa, Jan Egger, Klaus-Robert Müller, Martin Schuler, Frederick Klauschen, Jens Kleesiek Nature Cancer

2024

Combining PSMA-PET and PROMISE to re-define disease stage and risk in patients with prostate cancer: a multicentre retrospective study Madeleine J. Karpinski, Johannes Hüsing, Kevin Claassen, Lennart Möller, Hiltraud Kajüter, Florian Oesterling, Viktor Grünwald, Lale Umutlu, Jens Kleesiek, Tugce Telli, Anja Merkel-Jens, Anika Hüsing, Claudia Kesch, Ken Herrmann, Matthias Eiber, Sebastian Hoberück, Philipp Tobias Meyer, Felix Kind, Kambiz Rahbar, Michael Schäfers, Andreas Stang, Boris Hadaschik, Wolfgang P. Fendler The Lancet Oncology Establishing Medical Intelligence - Leveraging FHIR to Improve Clinical Management: a retrospective cohort and clinical implementation study Alexander Brehmer, Christopher Sauer, Jayson Salazar Rodríguez, Kelsey Herrmann, Moon Kim, Julius Keyl, Fin Hendrik Bahnsen, Benedikt Frank, Martin Köhrmann, Tienush Rassaf, Amir-Abbas Mahabadi, Boris Hadaschik, Christopher Darr, Ken Herrmann, Susanne Tan, Jan Buer, Thorsten Brenner, Hans Christian Reinhardt, Felix Nensa, Michael Gertz, Jan Egger, Jens Kleesiek Journal of Medical Internet Research Characteristics and outcomes of patients (pts) with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with lutetium-177–PSMA-617 (PSMA-RLT) in a real-world setting. David Kersting, Moon Kim, Lukas Püllen, Kathi Seidl-Rathkopf, Nicole Schinwald, Philani Mpofu, Ivy Altomare, Arun Sujenthiran, Trevor Joseph Royce, Christoph Buhl, Viktor Grünwald, Ken Herrmann, Jens Kleesiek, Boris Hadaschik Journal of Clinical Oncology Anatomy-Guided Pathology Segmentation Alexander Jaus, Constantin Seibold, Simon Reiß, Lukas Heine, Anton Schily, Moon Kim, Fin Hendrik Bahnsen, Ken Herrmann, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jens Kleesiek Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2024

2023

Decoding pan-cancer treatment outcomes using multimodal real-world data and explainable artificial intelligence Julius Keyl, Philipp Keyl, Grégoire Montavon, René Hosch, Alexander Brehmer, Liliana Mochmann, Philipp Jurmeister, Gabriel Dernbach, Moon Kim, Sven Koitka, Sebastian Bauer, Nikolaos Bechrakis, Michael Forsting, Dagmar Führer-Sakel, Martin Glas, Viktor Grünwald, Boris Hadaschik, Johannes Haubold, Ken Herrmann, Stefan Kasper-Virchow, Rainer Kimmig, Tienush Rassaf, Alexander Rösch, Dirk Schadendorf, Jens T. Siveke, Martin Stuschke, Ulrich Sure, Matthias Totzeck, Anja Welt, Marcel Wiesweg, Hideo A. Baba, Felix Nensa, Jan Egger, Klaus-Robert Müller, Martin Schuler, Frederick Klauschen, Jens Kleesiek medRxiv Intraoperative Molecular Positron Emission Tomography Imaging for Intraoperative Assessment of Radical Prostatectomy Specimens Christopher Darr, Pedro Fragoso Costa, Theresa Kahl, Alexandros Moraitis, Jenna Engel, Mulham Al-Nader, Henning Reis, Jens Köllermann, Claudia Kesch, Ulrich Krafft, Tobias Maurer, Daniel Köhler, Susanne Klutmann, Fabian Falkenbach, Jens Kleesiek, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Boris Hadaschik, Ken Herrmann European Urology Open Science Accurate Fine-Grained Segmentation of Human Anatomy in Radiographs via Volumetric Pseudo-Labeling Constantin Seibold, Alexander Jaus, Matthias A. Fink, Moon Kim, Simon Reiß, Ken Herrmann, Jens Kleesiek, Rainer Stiefelhagen arXiv Establishing Medical Intelligence - Leveraging FHIR to Improve Clinical Management Alexander Brehmer, Christopher Sauer, Jayson Salazar, Kelsey Hermmann, Moon Kim, Julius Keyl, Fin Hendrik Bahnsen, Benedikt Frank, Martin Köhrmann, Tienush Rassaf, Amir-Abbas Mahabadi, Boris Hadaschik, Christopher Darr, Ken Herrmann, Susanne Tan, Jan Buer, Thorsten Brenner, Hans Christian Reinhardt, Felix Nensa, Michael Gertz, Jan Egger, Jens Kleesiek Evaluation of thresholding methods for the quantifcation of 68Ga‑PSMA‑11 PET molecular tumor volume and their efect on survival prediction in patients with advanced prostate cancer undergoing 177Lu‑PSMA‑617 radioligand therapy Moon Kim, Robert Seifert, Jana Fragemann, David Kersting, Jacob M. Murray, Frederic Jonske, Kelsey L. Pomykala, Jan Egger, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Ken Herrmann, Jens Kleesiek European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

2022

Artificial intelligence guided enhancement of digital PET: scans as fast as CT? René Hosch, Manuel Weber, Miriam Sraieb, Nils Flaschel, Johannes Haubold, Moon Kim, Lale Umutlu, Jens Kleesiek, Ken Herrmann, Felix Nensa, Christoph Rischpler, Sven Koitka, Robert Seifert, David Kersting European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Virtual Biopsy: Just an AI Software or a Medical Procedure? Jacob M. Murray, Bodo Wiegand, Boris Hadaschik, Ken Herrmann, Jens Kleesiek Journal of Nuclear Medicine

2020

Joint Imaging Platform for Federated Clinical Data Analytics Jonas Scherer, Marco Nolden, Jens Kleesiek, Jasmin Metzger, Klaus Kades, Verena Schneider, Michael Bach, Oliver Lukas Sedlaczek, Andreas Bucher, Thomas J. Vogl, Frank Grünwald, Jens-Peter Kühn, Ralf-Thorsten Hoffmann, Jörg Kotzerke, Oliver Bethge, Lars Schimmöller, Gerald Antoch, Hans-Wilhelm Müller, Andreas Daul, Konstantin Nikolaou, Christian la Fougère, Wolfgang G. Kunz, Michael Ingrisch, Balthasar Schachtner, Jens Ricke, Peter Bartenstein, Felix Nensa, Alexander Radbruch, Lale Umutlu, Michael Forsting, Robert Seifert, Ken Herrmann, Philipp Mayer, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Tobias Penzkofer, Bernd Hamm, Winfried Brenner, Roman Klöckner, Christoph Düber, Mathias Schreckenberger, Rickmer Braren, Georgios Kaissis, Marcus R. Makowski, Matthias Eiber, Andrei Gafita, Rupert Trager, Wolfgang A. Weber, Jakob Neubauer, Marco Reisert, Michael Bock, Fabian Bamberg, Jürgen Hennig, Philipp Tobias Meyer, Juri Ruf, Uwe Haberkorn, Stefan O. Schönberg, Tristan Kuder, Peter Neher, Ralf Floca, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Klaus Maier-Hein JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics PSMA PET total tumor volume predicts outcome of patients with advanced prostate cancer receiving [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy in a bicentric analysis Robert Seifert, Katharina Kessel, Katrin Schlack, Manuel Weber, Ken Herrmann, Maximilian Spanke, Wolfgang P. Fendler, Boris Hadaschik, Jens Kleesiek, Michael Schäfers, Matthias Weckesser, Martin Bögemann, Kambiz Rahbar European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Semi-automatically quantified tumor volume using Ga-68-PSMA-11-PET as biomarker for survival in patients with advanced prostate cancer Robert Seifert, Ken Herrmann, Jens Kleesiek, Michael Schäfers, Vijay Shah, Zhoubing Xu, Guillaume Chabin, Sasa Garbic, Bruce Spottiswoode, Kambiz Rahbar Journal of Nuclear Medicine: Official Publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine Analysis of PSMA expression and outcome in patients with advanced Prostate Cancer receiving ¹⁷⁷Lu-PSMA-617 Radioligand Therapy Robert Seifert, Konstantin Seitzer, Ken Herrmann, Katharina Kessel, Michael Schäfers, Jens Kleesiek, Matthias Weckesser, Martin Bögemann, Kambiz Rahbar Theranostics