Fraunhofer IIS

Fraunhofer IIS, headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, is today the largest institute of the Fraunhofer-Society. The Medical Image Processing group involved in the project is a team of experienced bioinformaticians and focuses on AI-supported image analysis of microscopic images, especially in the fields of life science, digital pathology and spatial biology. In the project, we are responsible for making the sorting decision based on intracellular morphological features using real time AI.

Dr. Michaela Benz 

Chief Scientist, Project Lead Fraunhofer IIS

Dr. Michaela Benz is Chief Scientist in the Digital health Department at Fraunhofer IIS. She has been with Fraunhofer IIS since 2007 and her main research interests are computational pathology and biomedical image analysis. Between 2001 and 2006, she worked at the Center of excellence 603 (Model-based analysis and visualization of complex scenes and sensor data) at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) where she received her doctorate (09/2005).

Dr. Volker Bruns

Group Manager Medical Image Processing

Volker Bruns is group manager of the Medical Image Processing group at Fraunhofer IIS. He joined Fraunhofer in 2008 and his research interests include digital pathology, spatial biology as well as high throughput computing and software product design. He received his Master’s degree in Information Technology with honors from Tampere University of Technology (Finland) in 2008. Volker received his PhD from Technical University Ilmenau, Germany, on high throughput image compression with GPUs.