completedFunded · 2025 · AiR-GUC
AI in Radiology – From Pixels to Decisions (joint teaching with GUC)
BMFTR-funded joint teaching seminar between the University of Bonn and the German University in Cairo (2025).
Research area
AI for radiology at the Albarqouni Lab, University of Bonn: foundation models and federated learning for CT, MRI, X-ray and mammography.
Computational radiology develops AI that reads and improves CT, MRI, X-ray and mammography — and that keeps working when it leaves the hospital where it was trained.
Our projects cover diagnosis, staging and treatment. PDAC-FL combines CT foundation models with heterogeneity-aware federated learning for multi-center staging of pancreatic cancer, and Prostate MRF detects clinically significant prostate cancer in 3D multiparametric MRI and MR fingerprinting. ChestAge estimates biological age from chest imaging, Fair Mammo builds bias-aware foundation models for equitable breast cancer screening, and LVM-Med pre-trains large vision models on 1.3 million medical images. With LMU Munich we built a deep learning toolkit for MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy, and with Siemens Healthineers we lowered the X-ray dose of interventional imaging without losing image quality.
Federated learning (MSK-FL, FLamby) lets hospitals train together without sharing patient data, OMI brings AI inference into German university hospitals, and uncertainty estimation tells radiologists when not to trust a prediction.
completedFunded · 2025 · AiR-GUC
BMFTR-funded joint teaching seminar between the University of Bonn and the German University in Cairo (2025).
activeResearch collaboration · 2024 – ongoing
This project addresses fairness and generalization challenges of foundation models for breast mammography, where AI systems trained predominantly on data from …
activeResearch collaboration · 2023 – ongoing
This project addresses preoperative staging of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where lymph node metastasis is a major prognostic factor but CT-based …
completedResearch collaboration · 2023 – 2024
This project addresses the detection and characterization of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) in MRI, where diagnostic performance is limited by …
activeFunded · 2023 – 2026
The 3-year DFG Funded project with UniKlinikum Freiburg (2023-2026)
activeFunded · 2023 – 2027 · OMI
BMBF Funded Project through Medical Informatics Initaitive (MII) consortia (2024-2028)
completedFunded · 2023 – 2024
Bonn-Melbourne Research Excellence Fund (2023-2024)
completedResearch collaboration · 2022 – 2023
This collaboration explored federated learning for musculoskeletal segmentation in CT imaging across institutions in Germany and Japan.
activeFunded · 2022 – 2026
The 3-year DFG Funded project with the University Hospital Bonn, LMU and TU Munich (2022-2025)
completedResearch collaboration · 2022 – 2024
This collaboration investigates the applicability of large vision models to medical imaging, addressing robustness, generalization, and trustworthiness under …
completedResearch collaboration · 2021 – 2022
A central bottleneck in federated learning research is the lack of realistic, multi-center benchmarks reflecting the heterogeneity of clinical data.
completedResearch collaboration · 2021 – 2022 · deepc Head CT
Collaboration with the Munich radiology-AI company deepc on unsupervised anomaly detection in volumetric head CT — prioritising emergency scans for any …
completedFunded · 2020 – 2025
This 5 years Helmholtz funded project to advance the field with Federated Learning algorithms in Medicine (2020-2025)
completedFunded · 2020 – 2022
DAAD Funded Project with ETH Zürich and Imperial College London (2020-2022)
completedFunded · 2016 – 2019 · Siemens X-ray
Industry project with Siemens Healthineers (Advanced Therapies, Forchheim) on lowering the X-ray dose of interventional imaging without losing image quality — …
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2026
Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2026
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2026, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2026
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2026, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2026
124th DOG Congress (Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft), Berlin, 24–27 September 2026, 2026
arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.31637, 2026
Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie, 2026
2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2026
2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2025
Jan 2025Breast Mammography Dataset (Lebanon & international cohorts)
Jan 2025FLamby — Federated Learning Benchmark for Healthcare
Jan 2025MR-Linac Adaptive Radiotherapy MRI Dataset
Jan 2025Musculoskeletal Photon-Counting CT Dataset
Jan 2025Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Multi-Center CT Dataset
Jan 2025Prostate MRI Dataset with MR Fingerprinting