Awarded the Friedrich Wingert Early Career Award

Our employee, Ms Ellena Spieß, was awarded the prestigious Friedrich Wingert Early Career Award as part of DMEA – Connecting Digital Health.

The award recognised her bachelor’s thesis entitled “Automated Tumour Segmentation of Glioblastomas Using the MONAI Framework.”

The thesis focused on the development and evaluation of a deep learning-based approach for the automated segmentation of glioblastomas in histopathological whole slide images. Based on the MONAI framework, a standardised pipeline using U-Net-based model variants was implemented and evaluated on a comprehensive dataset. The results demonstrated strong segmentation performance and confirmed MONAI as a suitable approach for digital pathology workflows.

We warmly congratulate Ellena on receiving this award and on this outstanding achievement.