Future of Medicine

Imaging and Comprehensive Diagnostics

Registration

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All students can register for one module. You can specify two preferences. Please use the numbers “1” and “2”. If you have not been assigned a place in the project after the end of the assignment and are still interested in participating, please contact sibel.yildirim[@]ipw.rwth-aachen.de directly.

(If you have any problems with the registration or with RWTHonline, please contact Mrs. Sibel Yildirim (IPW), also stating your matriculation number: sibel.yildirim@ipw.rwth-aachen.de)

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Academic Responsibility

Head of Institute Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering

Contact Person

Schedulue

Start

15.04.2025

Time

Tuesday, 16:30-18.00 pm

Place

Online

Contents

The personalised patient care of the future will require comprehensive diagnostics and imaging to enable earlier and more precise diagnoses. To this end, diseases are characterised at the molecular, cellular and systemic levels. Furthermore, integrative diagnostic solutions are being developed that combine different imaging techniques to create the basis for holistic patient assessments and tailored treatment strategies. To ensure that diagnostic information, such as image data, can be comprehensively evaluated, users apply and researchers develop new technologies from the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In this interdisciplinary field, the Medical Science and Technology (MedST) profile area, in collaboration with the ‘Leonardo’ project, offers this course to provide students from all departments with an insight into the world of modern diagnostic approaches. The content covers technological as well as medical and social perspectives.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the latest developments in diagnostics and to prepare them for the multidisciplinary challenges of clinical implementation. It offers an outlook on future research fields and shows how innovative technologies are transforming our understanding of health and disease.

Program

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Fundamentals of diagnostics and imaging
Role of diagnostics, history, imaging techniques

Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Fabian Kießling
Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering 

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Imaging technologies

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volkmar Schulz
Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems Teaching and Research Area 

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Data Integration and AI

Univ.-Prof. med. Peter Boor, PhD
Senior physician, UKA 

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Molecular diagnostics

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Nanomedicine/Diagnostics

Univ.-Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Twan Lammers
Chair of Experimental Molecular Imaging

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Ethics and AI in diangnostics + social implications/What should medicine cost? Discussions

Prof. Dr. Saskia Nagel

Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Profile Area
Applied Ethics Teaching and Research Area 

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Integration of therapy and diagnostics

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Future of diagnostics

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Gernot Marx,
Hospital Director UKA 

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Practical Insights/Exmi laboratory tour

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Analysing clinical data sets

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Procedure/Working method​

Depending on the course of studies, module and examination, credit points can be achieved through participation. If you would like to take an exam, please make sure beforehand how you can get credit for it in your degree program. Of course, you can also take exams without receiving curricular credit for them. Visit our FAQs for more information.

Certificate

Participation (0 CP, certificate of attendance),
Protocol with critical reflection (2 CP, ungraded),
Term paper / essay (4 CP, graded) 

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