Medicine and Healthcare at Fraunhofer ITWM

Health and Life Sciences: Socially Relevant, Wide-Ranging, Individual

Improving health care, increasing chances of recovery, supporting diagnoses – these are the goals that the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft wants to achieve in the lead market  »Health Economy«. We contribute mathematics to this – especially with a focus on smart tools for decision-making and the optimal use of digitization. This page is dedicated to this major topic, collecting and highlighting outstanding projects and presenting the extensive work being done at Fraunhofer ITWM. Further projects on medicine and health can be found at the departments and divisions themselves.

Example Applications and Projects

 

Life Sciences

Our department »Optimization in the Life Sciences« develops and provides innovative and individually designed methods as well as software solutions and services in various areas of the life sciences.

 

Interview / 29.08.2024

»Optimization in the Life Sciences« – Socially relevant, wide-ranging, individual

 

What Wastewater Tells Us About Infections

In Rhineland-Palatinate, the incidence of infection was investigated using wastewater analyses and the representative cohort study »SentiSurv«. 

 

»KIDAGO« – Digital health data for sub-Saharan Africa

A hybrid system for digitizing handwritten medical documents using AI, image processing and OCR.

 

 

 

High Performance Computing

Energy-Efficient Hardware for Artificial Intelligence

The project »HALF« uses AI to help detect atrial fibrillation at an early stage.

 

Image Processing / Financial Mathematics

With AI Against Billing Fraud

In the »PflegeForensik« project, we are developing AI software to combat billing fraud.

 

MaTBiZ: Simulating Biological Cell Separation

In the »MaTBiZ« project, we simulate biological cell separation processes in order to optimize filter media manufactured using additive processes.

 

System Analysis, Prognosis and Control

Diagnostic System

Diagnostic System for the Brain Maturation Process in Premature Infants

 

Financial Mathematics

Damage Extrapolation in the Healthcare Sector

Our goal in this research area is the estimation of guaranteed damage in billing fraud in the health care sector.

 

System Analysis, Prognosis and Control

Development of New Medication

Mathematical learning methods support the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

 

Optimization

Optimized Production Processes at BioNTech

Together with BioNTech we developed a software to better plan, coordinate, and document complex production processes.

 

System Analysis, Prognosis and Control

Data Analysis in Life Sciences and Biotechnology

Collection, processing and interpretation of complex data

 

System Analysis, Prognosis and Control

Next Generation Sequencing

Evaluation of software for the primary analysis of NGS Data

 

Optimization

Viruses for Tumor Therapy

The aim of the project is to establish a broadly applicable platform technology for combined oncolytic virus immunotherapy.

 

Optimization

Optimization of the Closure of Abdominal Wall

Surgical treatments include quiet often the opening of the abdominal wall.

 

Optimization

Medical Care in Rural Areas

The aim of HealthFaCT is to find the optimal distribution of the scarce health care resources in rural areas.

 

Financial Mathematics

Retirement Plans

We developed the software ALMSim-Pathgenerator to support providers of pension products in questions of product development and placement and effective cost calculation.

 

Optimization

Duty Rosters for Nursing Professions

In the GamOR project, we are developing a software tool that supports nursing staff in planning their rosters.

 

Optimization

Optimization in Radiofrequency Ablation

In order to provide more assurance for doctors, we develop an imaging-based planning system.

 

Fraunhofer ITWM versus Corona

Our experts are contributing to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting various research projects and thus supporting the economy and society in overcoming the corona crisis with mathematics. On our landing page »Fraunhofer ITWM versus Corona« we collect all the news from the institute on the topic:

 

Optimization

Radiation Therapy

In several projects techniques for the adaption of therapy plans based on multimodal data during the radiation treatment are developed.

 

Optimization

Extra-Corporal Focussed Ultrasound Therapy

The method is a high-potential approach to non-invasive tumor therapy.

 

Optimization

Scheduling Medical Appointments

In the project we analyze and improve the various treatments and examinations in hospitals.

 

Optimization

Therapy Decisions

Especially when planning therapies that strongly interfere with the organism, there is a great need for computer-aided decision support systems in the search for a therapy.

 

Optimization

Optimal Dispatching in Logistics

The aim of the project is to develop an optimization engine for Opti-Trans®, a software for dispatching transports requests.