Andreas Maier

@akmaier.bsky.social

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Father of Two, Professor in Computer Science at FAU Erlangen Nuremberg

AI‘s progress is fast and we Need to accelerate to keep its pace. With „What‘s next in medical AI?“ I had the chance to present this on DLDxHealth. Slides if you missed the event: https://github.com/akmaier/AIMed2026Slides/tree/dldxhealth-2026
Glad to be part of the informal kick-off of the Bavarian Foundation Model initiative at DLDxHealth supported by Minister of Science of Bavaria Dr. Markus Blume, BAIOSPHERE, and many Bavarian Universities like TUM, LMU, FAU, Uni Würzburg and many more. Great to see this 56 Mio EUR Projekt taking
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Bernd Montag, CEO of Siemens Healthineers opening Baiosphere Medical 2026. fantastic and concise analysis of where the pain point of medical AI are and how we can address them in the future. What an inspiring speech! Thank you for these memorable opening of this event!
Meeting between FAU, evangelische Hochschule Nürnberg with Shanghai Chest Hospital. Discussing latest research on stent imaging as well as academic nursing education.
German Delegation from FAU visiting Tongji University in Shanghai. Impressive to see the network that they have built with Germany using CDHAW.
Today I had a wonderful time at west China hospital’s department of stomatology. We could share FAU‘s latest research and we could also see their latest training VR and AR oral surgery systems which are already being used in their oral medicine training program. Hope that we can build a fruitful col
West China Second Hospital has an impressive Women‘s and Pediatric Clinic. I just had the chance to introduce FAU there and I hope that we will be able to establish new collaborations together with partners like Siemens Healthineers.
Great meeting at West China hospital‘s radiology department. Will soon follow up with more joint work between FAU, and Siemens Healthineers. Looks like we will be able to address a couple of important problems in Neurological applications soon.
Wrapping up the day with traditional Chinese Hot Pot together with the Siemens Healthineers Surgery Team. FAU has friends everywhere in the world.
What used to be months of work for an MRI specialist is now done in minutes at a fraction of the cost by AI. 12 Euro Cent compared to cost of 37.5 EUR for a working student is incredible. Proud to show joint work with Moritz Zaiss from FAU at West China Hospital‘s 20th Summit in Orthopedics and more
FAU‘s Dr. Siming Bayer sharing the secrets of successful international collaboration at West China Hospital‘s 20th Annual Summit on Orthopedics and 80 year celebration of West China Hospital‘s Department of Orthopedics.
Great to learn about the autologous bone tissue bank initiative in which 100 Chinese hospitals join efforts to cryogenically preserve bone tissue thatbis usually discarded after surgery for late use in bone repair on the same patient.
Meeting friends from University Clinic Würzburg, Charité, and Siemens Healthineers at West China Hospital‘s 80 years celebration. Proud to represent FAU at international scale.
On stage at the welcome reception of West China Hospital‘s Orthopedics Department‘s 80 years celebration co-occurring with West China Hospital’s 20th annual Orthopedics Summit together with Maximilian Rudert and Carsten Perka. Great to see so many German top institutions, FAU, University Clínic Würz
Glad to be part of a delegation of FAU, Evangelische Hochschule Nürnberg, and Siemens Healthineers and visit the West China Hospital Museum of History today!
Great pleasure to visit West China Hospital‘s Orthopedics Department together with colleagues from Siemens Healthineers to discuss results and new ideas on how to bring medical AI to the patient and to improve patient care. This year FAU is accompanied by specialists from the Lutheran University of
BAIOSPHERE Medical 2026 is looking for motivated student volunteers based in or near Erlangen to support the event on site. This is a great opportunity for students interested in artificial intelligence, medical imaging, healthcare innovation, and scientific events to become part of an internatio
Unfortunately, I already had to leave India because of a workshop in Chengdu, China. Now we are re-uniting with the other members of FAU, enjoy some Chinese food together, and get ready for the next days of meetings, talks and joint research together with West China Hospital. At this point I wan
Today, we could visit Bangalore‘s Center for Brain Research, an Indian Institute of Science (IISc). They showed their fantastic work and in particular their large scale brain health cohort study with multimodal image, speech, motion, and omics data. Very impressive foundational work that is most tim
A new milestone to deepen the ties with India. Today FAU‘s pattern recognition lab signed an MOU with RV University‘s School of Computer Science and Engineering. Looking forward to future works with Bangalore, India!
Fantastic research that I could learn to know here at at two-day workshop „ Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Multimodal Neurological Disorder Detection“ organized by RV University, Bangalore with Participants from FAU, MAHE, PES University, Nitte, and NIMHANS. I am really excited on what i
My Indian colleagues took me out for dinner at Vidyarthi Bhavan. They still serve the food as in their founding days in 1943. Food was basic, but very delicious and I feel like following the footsteps of Anthony Bourdain. What an experience!
Finally a chance to get a new haircut in between meetings here in Bangalore, India. Pleasant experience at a value price of 4 EUR!
Great chance to visit the „tree of enlightenment" between the NIMHANS departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. A spot to have coffee and tea, discuss with colleagues, or have a rest to meditate about research.
Wonderful project meeting at NIMHANS MR PET Center with Dr. Rose and the Siemens Healthineers Team. Seems like we will be able to work on many joint projects soon!
Meetup for dinner with the Siemens Healthineers crew in Bangalore, India. Had a great time with Sanjeev Thampi, Ravinder Kaur, Shaik Ahmed, Puneet B V, and Bhairav Mehta. Looking forward to more collaboration in the future!
Great to meet FAU Alumni all over the world! Dattatreya Desai Just graduated last year from FAU Medical Engineering and is in a short vacation here in Bangalore, India. A pleasure meeting you here and to free FAU Alumni worldwide!