Christian F. Baumgartner

ORCID: 0000-0002-3629-4384
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Research Areas
  • Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Research
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics

University of Tübingen
2022-2025

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen
2024-2025

University of Lucerne
2025

ETH Zurich
2017-2021

Graz University of Technology
2021

Addiction Switzerland
2017-2018

University of Zurich
2017-2018

University Hospital Heidelberg
2018

Heidelberg University
2018

Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
2018

Delineation of the left ventricular cavity, myocardium, and right ventricle from cardiac magnetic resonance images (multi-slice 2-D cine MRI) is a common clinical task to establish diagnosis. The automation corresponding tasks has thus been subject intense research over past decades. In this paper, we introduce "Automatic Cardiac Diagnosis Challenge" dataset (ACDC), largest publicly available fully annotated for purpose MRI (CMR) assessment. contains data 150 multi-equipments CMRI recordings...

10.1109/tmi.2018.2837502 article EN IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2018-05-17

Identifying and interpreting fetal standard scan planes during 2-D ultrasound mid-pregnancy examinations are highly complex tasks, which require years of training. Apart from guiding the probe to correct location, it can be equally difficult for a non-expert identify relevant structures within image. Automatic image processing provide tools help experienced as well inexperienced operators with these tasks. In this paper, we propose novel method based on convolutional neural networks,...

10.1109/tmi.2017.2712367 article EN cc-by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2017-07-11

Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from undersampled measurements exploit prior information to compensate missing k-space data. Deep learning (DL) provides a powerful framework extracting such existing datasets, through learning, and then using it reconstruction. Leveraging this, recent methods employed DL learn mappings fully sampled images paired including corresponding images, integrating knowledge implicitly. In this article, we propose an alternative approach...

10.1109/tmi.2018.2887072 article EN IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2018-12-18

Attributing the pixels of an input image to a certain category is important and well-studied problem in computer vision, with applications ranging from weakly supervised localisation understanding hidden effects data. In recent years, approaches based on interpreting previously trained neural network classifier have become de facto state-of-the-art are commonly used medical as well natural datasets. this paper, we discuss limitation these which may lead only subset specific features being...

10.1109/cvpr.2018.00867 article EN 2018-06-01

Supervised learning-based segmentation methods typically require a large number of annotated training data to generalize well at test time. In medical applications, curating such datasets is not favourable option because acquiring samples from experts time-consuming and expensive. Consequently, numerous have been proposed in the literature for learning with limited examples. Unfortunately, approaches yet yielded significant gains over random augmentation image segmentation, where...

10.1016/j.media.2020.101934 article EN cc-by Medical Image Analysis 2020-12-09

Measurement of head biometrics from fetal ultrasonography images is key importance in monitoring the healthy development fetuses. However, accurate measurement relevant anatomical structures subject to large inter-observer variability clinic. To address this issue, an automated method utilizing Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) proposed determine measurements circumference (HC) and biparietal diameter (BPD). An FCN was trained on approximately 2000 2D ultrasound with annotations provided by...

10.1109/embc.2018.8512278 article EN 2018-07-01

Abstract Objective Segmentation of thigh muscle and adipose tissue is important for the understanding musculoskeletal diseases such as osteoarthritis. Therefore, purpose this work (a) to evaluate whether a fully automated approach provides accurate segmentation muscles cross-sectional areas (CSA) compared with manual (b) validity method based on previous clinical study. Materials methods The U-Net architecture trained 250 manually segmented thighs from Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)....

10.1007/s10334-019-00816-5 article EN cc-by Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine 2019-12-23

Tissue characterisation with CMR parametric mapping has the potential to detect and quantify both focal diffuse alterations in myocardial structure not assessable by late gadolinium enhancement. Native T1 particular shown promise as a useful biomarker support diagnostic, therapeutic prognostic decision-making ischaemic non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies. Convolutional neural networks Bayesian inference are category of artificial which model uncertainty network output. This study presents an...

10.1186/s12968-020-00650-y article EN cc-by Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2020-01-01

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers strong soft tissue contrast but suffers from long acquisition times and requires tedious annotation radiologists. Traditionally, these challenges have been addressed separately with reconstruction image analysis algorithms. To see if performance could be improved by treating both as end-to-end, we hosted the K2S challenge, in which challenge participants segmented knee bones cartilage 8× undersampled k-space. We curated 300-patient dataset of multicoil...

10.3390/bioengineering10020267 article EN cc-by Bioengineering 2023-02-18

The acquisition of a Magnetic Resonance (MR) scan usually takes longer than subjects can remain still. Movement the subject such as bulk patient motion or respiratory degrades image quality and its diagnostic value by producing artefacts like ghosting, blurring, smearing. This work focuses on effect reconstructed slices detection in reconstruction using supervised learning approach based random decision forests. Both effects occurring at various time points head scans cardiac are studied....

10.1155/2017/4501647 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Engineering 2017-06-11

Background and purposeOnline adaptive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided radiotherapy requires fast dose calculation algorithms to reduce intra-fraction motion uncertainties improve workflow efficiency. While Monte-Carlo simulations are precise but computationally intensive, neural networks promise accurate modelling in strong fields. This study aimed train evaluate a deep network for MRI-guided using comprehensive clinical dataset.Materials methodsA dataset of 6595 irradiation segments...

10.1016/j.phro.2025.100723 article EN cc-by Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2025-01-01

Abstract While the field of medical image analysis has undergone a transformative shift with integration machine learning techniques, main challenge these techniques is often scarcity large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets. Medical images vary in format, size, other parameters therefore require extensive preprocessing standardization, for usage learning. Addressing challenges, we introduce Imaging Meta-Dataset (MedIMeta), novel multi-domain, multi-task meta-dataset. MedIMeta contains 19...

10.1038/s41597-025-04866-4 article EN cc-by Scientific Data 2025-04-19
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