Data Science / Machine Learning for Safe Medical Diagnostics

We work on robust and interpretable algorithms that enable machine learning algorithms to be applied in the clinical workflow in ophthalmology.

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Grote, T., Freiesleben, T. & Berens, P.

Foundation models in healthcare require rethinking reliability

Nov 11, 2024 | Nature Machine Intelligence
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Wundram, A.M., Fischer, P., Wunderlich, S., Faber, H., Koch, L.M., Berens, P., Baumgartner C. F.

Leveraging Probabilistic Segmentation Models for Improved Glaucoma Diagnosis: A Clinical Pipeline Approach

Jun 06, 2024 | Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2024
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Köhler, P., Fadugba, J., Berens, P., Koch, L.M.

Efficiently correcting patch-based segmentation errors to control image-level performance in retinal images

Jun 06, 2024 | Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2024
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Ayhan, M. S., Neubauer, J., Uzel, M. M., Gelisken, F., & Berens, P.

Interpretable detection of epiretinal membrane from optical coherence tomography with deep neural networks.

Apr 11, 2024 | Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8484.
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Sun, S., Koch, L. M., & Baumgartner, C. F.

Right for the Wrong Reason: Can Interpretable ML Techniques Detect Spurious Correlations?

Oct 01, 2023 | In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (pp. 425-434). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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Ayhan, M. S., Faber, H., Kühlewein, L., Inhoffen, W., Aliyeva, G., Ziemssen, F., & Berens, P.

Multitask Learning for Activity Detection in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Jul 21, 2023 | Translational Vision Science & Technology, 12(4), 12-12
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Djoumessi, K. R. D., Ilanchezian, I., Kühlewein, L., Faber, H., Baumgartner, C. F., Bah, B., Berens, P. & Koch, L. M.

Sparse Activations for Interpretable Disease Grading

Jul 20, 2023 | Proceedings of Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL)
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Sun, S., Woerner, S., Maier, A., Koch, L.M., Baumgartner,, C.F.

Inherently Interpretable Multi-Label Classification Using Class-Specific Counterfactuals

Jul 20, 2023 | Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2023
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Boreiko, V., Augustin, M., Croce, F., Berens, P., & Hein, M.

Sparse visual counterfactual explanations in image space

Sep 09, 2022 | DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (pp. 133-148)
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Müller, S., Koch, L. M., Lensch, H., & Berens, P.

A Generative Model Reveals the Influence of Patient Attributes on Fundus Images

May 09, 2022 | In Medical Imaging with Deep Learning.
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Koch, L. M., Schürch, C. M., Gretton, A., & Berens, P.

Hidden in plain sight: Subgroup shifts escape ood detection

Feb 28, 2022 | Proceedings of Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL)
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Blum, C., Baur, D., Achauer, L. C., Berens, P., [...], Huang, Z., [...] , Macke, J.H., [...] & Ziemann, U.

Personalized neurorehabilitative precision medicine: from data to therapies (MWKNeuroReha)–a multi-centre prospective observational clinical trial to predict long-term outcome of patients with acute motor stroke

Feb 14, 2022 | BMC Neurology, 22(1), 1-15
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Boreiko, V., Ilanchezian, I., Ayhan, M. S., Müller, S., Koch, L. M., Faber, H., Berens, P. & Hein, M.

Visual explanations for the detection of diabetic retinopathy from retinal fundus images

Feb 02, 2022 | International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI) (pp. 539-549), Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland
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Faber, H., Berens, P., & Rohrbach, J. M.

Ocular changes as a diagnostic tool for malaria

Jan 02, 2022 | Der Ophthalmologe, 1-6
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Ayhan, M. S., Kümmerle, L. B., Kühlewein, L., Inhoffen, W., Aliyeva, G., Ziemssen, F., & Berens, P.

Clinical validation of saliency maps for understanding deep neural networks in ophthalmology

Jan 01, 2022 | Medical Image Analysis, 77, 102364
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Pfau, M., Walther, G., von der Emde, L., Berens, P., Faes, L., Fleckenstein, M., ... & Holz, F. G.

Artificial intelligence in ophthalmology: Guidelines for physicians for the critical evaluation of studies.

Aug 28, 2020 | Der Ophthalmologe, 117, 973-988.
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Ayhan, M. S., Kühlewein, L., Aliyeva, G., Inhoffen, W., Ziemssen, F., & Berens, P.

Expert-validated estimation of diagnostic uncertainty for deep neural networks in diabetic retinopathy detection.

Aug 20, 2020 | Medical image analysis, 64, 101724.
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Berens, P., Waldstein, S. M., Ayhan, M. S., Kuemmerle, L., Agostini, H., Stahl, A., & Ziemssen, F.

Potential of methods of artificial intelligence for quality assurance.

Feb 24, 2020 | Der Ophthalmologe, 117, 320-325.
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Grote, T., & Berens, P.

On the ethics of algorithmic decision-making in healthcare.

Feb 20, 2020 | Journal of medical ethics, 46(3), 205-211.
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Berens, P., & Ayhan, M. S.

Proprietary data formats block health research.

Jan 31, 2019 | Nature, 565(7737), 429-430.