Affordable & Responsible AI

Fairness and robustness across populations and resource settings — AI that is affordable, trustworthy and works for everyone.

Most medical AI is built for, and with data from, well-resourced hospitals. We work on affordable and responsible AI: models that are fair and robust across populations, scanners and resource settings; image-quality transfer for portable and ultra-low-field devices; lightweight and explainable models; and guidelines for trustworthy AI in healthcare (FUTURE-AI). Capacity building — summer schools, symposia and the SANAD network — is part of this theme.

Key questions

  • Does a model work equally well for every patient group and every hospital?
  • Can AI close the quality gap between low-cost and high-end imaging devices?
  • How do we grow sustainable AI communities in the Global South?

Funded projects 21 filter all →

Publications 56 filter all →

Exploring the limit of image resolution for human expert classification of vascular ultrasound images in giant cell arteritis and healthy subjects: the GCA-US-AI project

Claus-Jürgen Bauer, Stavros Chrysidis, Christian Dejaco, Matthew J. Koster, Minna J. Kohler, Sara M. Monti, Wolfgang Schmidt, Chetan B. Mukhtyar, Pantelis Karakostas, Marcin Milchert, Cristina Ponte, Christina Duftner, Eugenio de Miguel, Alojzija Hočevar, Annamaria Iagnocco, Lene Terslev, Uffe Møller Døhn, Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen, Aaron Juche, Luca Seitz, Kresten Krarup Keller, Rositsa Valerieva Karalilova, Thomas D. Daikeler, Sarah Louise Mackie, Karina D. Torralba, Kornelis S. M. van der Geest, Dennis Boumans, Philipp Bösch, Alessandro Tomelleri, Markus Aschwanden, Tanaz A. Kermani, Andreas P. Diamantopoulos, Ulrich Fredberg, Nevsun İnanç, Simon Michael Petzinna, Shadi Albarqouni, Charlotte Behning, Valentin Schäfer

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2025

Journal Medical ImagingResponsible AI
PublisherPDFBibTeX

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Datasets 5

Breast Mammography Dataset (Lebanon & international cohorts) Jan 2025Breast Mammography Dataset (Lebanon & international cohorts) Conjunctival Melanocytic Intraepithelial Lesion (CMIL) Histopathology Dataset Jan 2025Conjunctival Melanocytic Intraepithelial Lesion (CMIL) Histopathology Dataset Giant Cell Arteritis Ultrasound Dataset Jan 2025Giant Cell Arteritis Ultrasound Dataset Neonatal Ultra-Low-Field / High-Field MRI Dataset Jan 2025Neonatal Ultra-Low-Field / High-Field MRI Dataset Retinal Fundus Image Dataset Jan 2025Retinal Fundus Image Dataset

Demos 1

MRIQT — Image-Quality Transfer for Ultra-Low-Field MRI Oct 2026MRIQT — Image-Quality Transfer for Ultra-Low-Field MRI

Code 4

ArtFusion — Official codebase for the ArteryFusion model May 2026ArtFusion — Official codebase for the ArteryFusion model AiM-BIGS Mar 2026AiM-BIGS MRIQT Nov 2025MRIQT Apr 2016Polyp and Artifact Detector

Teaching 6

BILD — Summer 2025 Sep 2025BILD — Summer 2025 SAAI — Summer 2024 Jul 2024SAAI — Summer 2024 EEDA — Winter 2023/24 Dec 2023EEDA — Winter 2023/24 Autumn School on AI (EEDA) Jan 0001Autumn School on AI (EEDA) Summer School on Affordable AI (SAAI) Jan 0001Summer School on Affordable AI (SAAI) Summer School on Biomedical Imaging with Deep Learning (BILD) Jan 0001Summer School on Biomedical Imaging with Deep Learning (BILD)

In the media 4

Press release on our AGYA Summer School on Affordable AI -- written by Luther J. Kanso from LAU, Lebanon (19.08.2024)Photo: Rolf Müller Aug 2024Press release on our AGYA Summer School on Affordable AI -- written by Luther J. Kanso from LAU, Lebanon (19.08.2024) Press release on our AGYA Summer School on Affordable AI at UKBonn (19.08.2024)Photo: Rolf Müller / UKB Aug 2024Press release on our AGYA Summer School on Affordable AI at UKBonn (19.08.2024) Aug 2017Interview and Press Release on our IEE TMI Crowdsourcing Paper at the Biomedical Computation Review by Alexander Gelfand (30.08.2017) Interview and Press Release on our IEE TMI Crowdsourcing Paper at TU Munich (04.08.2016)Photo: Bernhard Schmidt / TUM Aug 2016Interview and Press Release on our IEE TMI Crowdsourcing Paper at TU Munich (04.08.2016)

Community & events 35

Medical Pitch Contest Bonn Oct 2026 · Bonn, GermanyMedical Pitch Contest Bonn BONFOR Symposium & Promotionsbörse in Bonn Jun 2026 · Bonn, GermanyBONFOR Symposium & Promotionsbörse in Bonn Invited Keynote at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS) in Cairo, Egypt Nov 2025 · Cairo, EgyptInvited Keynote at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS) in Cairo, Egypt Contributed to the GLOHRA’s fact-finding mission to Brussels Nov 2025 · Brussels, BelgiumContributed to the GLOHRA’s fact-finding mission to Brussels David participated with an oral presentation at the 10th BIGS Clinical & Population Science Student Retreat Oct 2025 · IMPULSE Bonn, GermanyDavid participated with an oral presentation at the 10th BIGS Clinical & Population Science Student Retreat Participated at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland Jul 2025 · Geneva, SwitzerlandParticipated at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland Panelist at Applied Case Studies of AI in Health for WHO EMRO Workshop, Egypt Jul 2025 · Cairo, EgyptPanelist at Applied Case Studies of AI in Health for WHO EMRO Workshop, Egypt Invited Talk at the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DASCI), Spain Jun 2025 · Andalusia, SpainInvited Talk at the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DASCI), Spain Contributed to the GLOHRA SC Meeting and GLOHRA Day in Berlin, Germany Jun 2025 · Berlin, GermanyContributed to the GLOHRA SC Meeting and GLOHRA Day in Berlin, Germany Participated at the GLOHRA Training on Public Affairs in Berlin, Germany May 2025 · Berlin, GermanyParticipated at the GLOHRA Training on Public Affairs in Berlin, Germany Contributed to the 23rd BONFOR Symposium in Bonn, Germany May 2025 · Bonn, GermanyContributed to the 23rd BONFOR Symposium in Bonn, Germany Invited Lecture at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Apr 2025 · Berlin, GermanyInvited Lecture at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany