News
Aug 25, 2026
VDE: Preis für Patientensicherheit an KI-Guard
The VDE DGBMT awards its Patient Safety Prize to IKIM physician Julian Friedrich and his team for EMR Guard ("KI-Guard"), an AI assistant that alerts treating physicians when an …
Aug 19, 2026
WAZ: KI im Krankenhaus – Wenn der Chatbot vor Allergien beim Patienten warnt
The Essen daily visits IKIM and follows a case its directors Jens Kleesiek and Felix Nensa use to explain their work — an allergy note buried in a discharge letter that a chatbot …
Mar 4, 2026
Podcast: Digital Human im Krankenhaus
The GQMG interview podcast talks to IKIM's Jon Lennart Wulff about AI-based Digital Human avatars that give hospital patients low-barrier information around the clock.
Jan 13, 2026
SmartHospital.NRW Innovation Summit: flagship from Essen
Health&Care Management covers the first SmartHospital.NRW Innovation Summit at University Medicine Essen — Jens Kleesiek delivered a keynote on AI as a driver of medical and …
Dec 1, 2025
AI in clinical practice: from code to diagnosis
University of Zurich features Jens Kleesiek's keynote at The LOOP Zurich's 2025 annual event — why the doctor of the future will spend less time searching for data and more time …
Oct 27, 2025
Using AI to identify at-risk patients in ER triage
Medical Xpress covers a machine-learning study on emergency-room triage that grew out of a Bergen datathon supervised by IKIM oncologist Christopher Sauer.
Oct 12, 2025
WDR Aktuelle Stunde: studio interview with Jens Kleesiek
Jens Kleesiek joins WDR's Aktuelle Stunde as studio expert on AI-assisted diagnosis — "AI in radiology works like a car's blind-spot assistant."
Aug 25, 2025
Podcast: Treat Patients, Not Data
Jens Kleesiek joins the AI-ready Healthcare podcast to discuss machine learning on clinical data, multimodal integration, and image-guided cancer treatment.
Jun 16, 2025
DFG extends the WisPerMed graduate program
The German Research Foundation renews funding for the WisPerMed research training group for another 4.5 years — AI decision support for personalized point-of-care oncology, with …
Jun 16, 2025
AuntMinnie: Essen team tackles imaging de-identification
AuntMinnieEurope features the open-source AI tool from IKIM's k-Radiomics project that unifies medical-image de-identification — developed by Moritz Rempe, Lukas Heine and …
May 22, 2025
Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Was Kollegin KI alles leisten kann
The journal of the German medical association surveys AI in clinical practice in its AI special issue — with Jens Kleesiek extensively quoted on capabilities, limits, and …
May 7, 2025
Medicine of the future at the BVB training center
University Medicine Essen and Borussia Dortmund are creating a medical innovation center at the BVB training ground — with IKIM substantially involved in developing the …
Mar 30, 2025
ETIM 2025: between data and diagnoses
A conference report on the ETIM symposium in Essen hosted by IKIM — two days on AI's role in healthcare, from wearable sensor data to clinical integration.
Mar 20, 2025
DECIPHER-M: decoding cancer metastasis with AI
The BMBF-funded DECIPHER-M consortium uses multimodal AI foundation models on routine clinical data to decode how cancer spreads. Jens Kleesiek leads central work packages at IKIM.
Feb 21, 2025
TEDx talk: We treat patients, not data
In his TEDx talk, Jens Kleesiek argues why medicine must stay human-centered in the age of AI — machine learning should free physicians to focus on patients, not data.
Jan 30, 2025
AI improves personalized cancer treatment
Researchers led by Jens Kleesiek and Julius Keyl developed an explainable AI approach that analyzes clinical data from more than 15,000 patients across 38 tumor types to support …
Jan 14, 2025
INSIDE:INSIGHT — immersive technologies for biomedical education
The EU-funded doctoral network INSIDE:INSIGHT, co-led by Jens Kleesiek and Jan Egger at IKIM, investigates how immersive extended-reality technologies can be integrated into …
Nov 21, 2024
autoPET challenge: algorithms improve medical image analysis
KIT reports on the international autoPET challenge for automated tumor segmentation in PET/CT — a joint KIT–IKIM team with Jens Kleesiek and Lars Heiliger, with results published …
Jan 15, 2024
NRW Science Minister Brandes visits IKIM
NRW Minister for Culture and Science Ina Brandes visited IKIM at the Girardet Haus to see current and future AI applications in medicine — welcomed by Felix Nensa and Jens …
Oct 11, 2022
Whitepaper: Advantages and disadvantages of on-premises and cloud-based solutions in hospitals
Together with the Münch Foundation, we have published a white paper that is intended to stimulate an open dialog on the use of cloud computing services in hospital IT. By …
Jun 10, 2022
NVIDIA Blogpost
From Code to Clinic, Smart Hospital Tech Boosts Efficiency, Sustainability in Medicine. NVIDIA's Blog features our advances in smart hospital platforms, improving patient care and … 
