Publications in the NUM

Allgoewer K, Windeck S, Stark C, Kuderna AK, Stillfried S, Fend F, Pablik J, Märkl B, Schaller T, Radbruch H, Boor P, Ondruschka B. Das Nationale Obduktionsnetzwerk nach der COVID-19-Pandemie. Rechtsmedizin. 2025 Aug.; 35315–322.      [DOI]      [File] 

Becker I, Püschel K, Stallbaum F, Ondruschka B, Heinrich F. Die Übersehenen der Pandemie: Eine retrospektive populationsbasierte Datenanalyse der COVID-19-Pandemie aus Hamburg. Rechtsmedizin. 2025 Aug.; 35332–343.      [DOI]      [File] 

Künnemann M, Römer C, Helfen A, Bleckmann A, Kemper M, Heindel W, Brix TJ, Forsting M, Haubold J, Opitz M, Schuler M, Nensa F, Borys K, Hosch R. Exploration of Fully-Automated Body Composition Analysis Using Routine CT-Staging of Lung Cancer Patients for Survival Prognosis. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle. 2025 Aug.; 16(4):e70021.      [DOI]      [File] 

Frank GL, Linnemann P, Ramm M, Schneider G, Kahnert SM, Janssen A, Conrad R. Influences of sociodemographic and psychological factors on the improvement of trait resilience after inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2025 Aug.; 195112185.      [DOI]      [File] 

Petrov L, Brumhard S, Wisniewski S, Georg P, Hillus D, Hiller A, Astaburuaga-García R, Blüthgen N, Wyler E, Vogt K, Dey H, Stillfried Sv, Iwert C, Bülow RD, Märkl B, Maas L, Langner C, Meyer T, Loske J, Eils R, Lehmann I, Ondruschka B, Ralser M, Trimpert J, Boor P, Bedoui S, Meisel C, Mall M, Corman V, Sander LE, Röhmel J, Sawitzki B. Rewired type I IFN signaling is linked to age-dependent differences in COVID-19. Cell Reports Medicine. 2025 Aug.; 6(8):102285.      [DOI]      [File] 

Theis M, Hong W, Lee B, Nowak S, Luetkens J, Stuckey S, Gibbs P, Thomson B, Michael M, Sprinkart AM, Ko HS. Skeletal muscle and visceral fat density are predictive imaging biomarkers for overall survival in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma: A retrospective multicenter analysis. Surgical oncology. 2025 Aug.; 61102251.      [DOI]      [File] 

Hoffmann T, Teichgräber U, Brüheim LB, Lassen-Schmidt B, Renz D, Weise T, Krämer M, Oelzner P, Böttcher J, Güttler F, Wolf G, Pfeil A. The association of symptoms, pulmonary function test and computed tomography in interstitial lung disease at the onset of connective tissue disease: an observational study with artificial intelligence analysis of high-resolution computed tomography.. Rheumatology international. 2025 Aug.;      [DOI] 

Stepansky L, Ruppel R, Sommerfeld L, Kleiß J, Türkan K, Arndt S, Bickelhaupt S, Knoll F, Uder M, May MS. Adrenal gland volume measurement in depressed patients. Journal of psychiatric research. 2025 Jul.; 18774-79.      [DOI]      [File] 

Seletkov D, Starck S, Mueller TT, Zhang Y, Steinhelfer L, Rueckert D, Braren R. AI-driven preclinical disease risk assessment using imaging in UK biobank.. NPJ digital medicine. 2025 Jul.;      [DOI] 

Schulze-Weddige S, Baumgärtner GL, Orth T, Tietze A, Scheel M, Wasilewski D, Wattjes MP, Hanning U, Kniep H, Penzkofer T, Nawabi J. An Explainable AI Exploration of the Machine Learning Classification of Neoplastic Intracerebral Hemorrhage from Non-Contrast CT.. Cancers. 2025 Jul.;      [DOI] 

Tayebi Arasteh S, Lotfinia M, Bressem K, Siepmann R, Adams L, Ferber D, Kuhl C, Kather JN, Nebelung S, Truhn D. RadioRAG: Online Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Radiology Question Answering. Radiology. Artificial intelligence. 2025 Jul.; 7(4):e240476.      [DOI]      [File] 

Märkl B, Schaller T. Rechtliche und organisatorische Aspekte der Obduktion in Deutschland. Die Pathologie. 2025 Jul.; 46(4):230-234.      [DOI]      [File] 

Hoffmann T, Teichgräber U, Lassen-Schmidt B, Renz D, Brüheim LB, Krämer M, Böttcher J, Güttler F, Wolf G, Pfeil A. ABS0746 Predicting interstitial lung disease severity in patients with connective tissue diseases: The role of clinical parameters and artificial intelligence quantified pulmonary high-resolution computed tomography. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2025 Jun.; 841526.      [DOI]      [File] 

Eminovic S, Levita B, Dell'Orco A, Leppig JA, Nawabi J, Penzkofer T. Comparison of Multiple State-of-the-Art Large Language Models for Patient Education Prior to CT and MRI Examinations.. Journal of personalized medicine. 2025 Jun.;      [DOI] 

Tan Q, Miao J, Nitschke L, Nickel MD, Lerchbaumer MH, Penzkofer T, Hofbauer S, Peters R, Hamm B, Geisel D, Wagner M, Walter-Rittel TC. Deep learning enabled near-isotropic CAIPIRINHA VIBE in the nephrogenic phase improves image quality and renal lesion conspicuity.. European journal of radiology open. 2025 Jun.;      [DOI] 

Herrmann T, Mallow J, Plaumann M, Lehmann R, Baecke S, Berger J, Rak M, Franke M, Heinrich P, Tiller D, Pirkl A, Bernarding J, Bruns C. The implementation of broad consent at university hospitals. Dtsch. Arztebl. Int.. 2025 Jun.; 122(12):338—339.

Sobkowiak A, Scherff N, Almsick V, Schuler F, Brix TJ, Mellmann A, Schwierzeck V. Characterization of vanA-harboring plasmids supports differentiation of outbreak-related and sporadic vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates in a tertiary care hospital. BMC Microbiology. 2025 May 28; 25(1):337.

Kocman SE, K"oster H, Gulden C, Kapsner LA, Engel I, Prokosch H, Mang JM. Is Research Data Trustworthy? A Quality Comparison Between FHIR, Trinetx and Clinical Data Sources. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 May 15; 327703—707.

Borys K, Lodde G, Livingstone E, Weishaupt C, Römer C, Künnemann M, Helfen A, Zimmer L, Galetzka W, Haubold J, Friedrich CM, Umutlu L, Heindel W, Schadendorf D, Hosch R, Nensa F. Fully volumetric body composition analysis for prognostic overall survival stratification in melanoma patients. Journal of translational medicine. 2025 May; 23(1):532.      [DOI]      [File] 

Wahjudi T, Nitsch A, Sperhake J, Hoeger PH. Fulminant parvovirus B19 myocarditis in infants -report of three post-pandemic cases. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases: Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology. 2025 May; 44(5):1239-1243.      [DOI] 

Bucher AM, Frodl E, Ehrengut C, Müller L, Emrich T, Kloeckner R, Sieren M, Sähn M, Fink MA, Móré D, Melekh B, Gottschling S, Meinel F, Schön H, Kornemann N, Renz DM, Lubina N, Wollny C, May MS, Siegler L, Borggrefe J, Meyer H, Surov A. Prognostic value of CT-defined coronary sclerosis in COVID-19: results of a multicenter study based on the Weston score.. RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin. 2025 May;      [DOI] 

Kinast B, Wiedekopf J, Ulrich H, Schreiweis B. Extracting LOINC Codes from a Laboratory Information System's Index: Addressing Semantic Interoperability with Web Scraping. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 Apr. 24; 324234—239.

Ziegler J, Erpenbeck MP, Fuchs T, Saibold A, Volkmer P, Schmidt G, Eicher J, Pallaoro P, De Souza Falguera R, Aubele F, Hagedorn M, Vansovich E, Raffler J, Ringshandl S, Kerscher A, Maurer JK, Kühnel B, Schenkirsch G, Kampf M, Kapsner LA, Ghanbarian H, Spengler H, Soto-Rey I, Albashiti F, Hellwig D, Ertl M, Fette G, Kraska D, Boeker M, Prokosch H, Gulden C. Bridging Data Silos in Oncology with Modular Software for Federated Analysis on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: Multisite Implementation Study.. Journal of medical Internet research. 2025 Apr.;      [DOI] 

Schmidt R, Rueger C, Xu H, He Y, Yilmaz EY, Heidemann L, Sulejmani O, Liu Y, Noack L, Hesse F, Ruppel R, Abosabie SA, Hamm CA, Penzkofer T, Gebauer B, Savic LJ. Comparing the Prognostic Value of Quantitative Response Assessment Tools and LIRADS Treatment Response Algorithm in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Interstitial High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy and Conventional Transarterial Chemoembolization.. Cancers. 2025 Apr.;      [DOI] 

Bucher AM, Behrend J, Ehrengut C, Müller L, Emrich T, Schramm D, Akinina A, Kloeckner R, Sieren M, Berkel L, Kuhl C, Sähn M, Fink MA, Móré D, Melekh B, Kardas H, Meinel FG, Schön H, Kornemann N, Renz DM, Lubina N, Wollny C, Both M, Watkinson J, Stöcklein S, Mittermeier A, Abaci G, May M, Siegler L, Penzkofer T, Lindholz M, Balzer M, Kim M, Römer C, Wrede N, Götz S, Breckow J, Borggrefe J, Meyer HJ, Surov A. CT-Defined Pectoralis Muscle Density Predicts 30-Day Mortality in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A Nationwide Multicenter Study. Academic radiology. 2025 Apr.; 32(4):2133-2140.      [DOI]      [File] 

Allgoewer K, Stark C, Fitzek A, Huter T, Heinemann A, Ondruschka B. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on admissions of deceased to an institute of legal medicine in Germany. Scientific Reports. 2025 Apr.; 15(1):15115.      [DOI]      [File] 

Holzwarth S, Saadat K, Jorczyk M, Dreßen S, Kotsias-Konopelska S, Schlegtendal A, Maier C, Schmitt J, Paul K, Pagel J, Muntau AC, Berner R, Brinkmann F, Toepfner N. PaedVacCOVID - safety of the BNT162b2 vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 in children with and without comorbidities aged 5 to 11 years.. Infection. 2025 Apr.;      [DOI] 

Jaiswal A, Fervers P, Meng F, Zhang H, Móré D, Giannakis A, Wailzer J, Bucher AM, Maintz D, Kottlors J, Shahzad R, Persigehl T. Performance of AI Approaches for COVID-19 Diagnosis Using Chest CT Scans: The Impact of Architecture and Dataset.. RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin. 2025 Apr.;      [DOI] 

Manzke M, Laqua FC, Böttcher B, Klemenz A, Weber M, Baessler B, Meinel FG. Repeatability of radiomic features in myocardial T1 and T2 mapping.. European radiology. 2025 Mar.;      [DOI] 

Walter-Rittel TC, Frisch A, Hamm CA, Baumgärtner GL, Hartenstein A, Dräger F, Haas M, Cash H, Hofbauer S, Hamm B, Beetz NL, Penzkofer T. Automated 24-sector grid-map algorithm for prostate mpMRI improves precision and efficacy of prostate lesion location reporting. European journal of radiology. 2025 Feb.; 183111897.      [DOI]      [File] 

Wald T, Hamm B, Holzschuh JC, El Shafie R, Kudak A, Kovacs B, Pflüger I, Nettelbladt B, Ulrich C, Baumgartner MA, Vollmuth P, Debus J, Maier-Hein KH, Welzel T. Enhancing deep learning methods for brain metastasis detection through cross-technique annotations on SPACE MRI.. European radiology experimental. 2025 Feb.;      [DOI] 

Schranz M, Rupprecht M, Aigner A, Benning L, Schlump C, Charfeddine N, Diercke M, Grabenhenrich L, Ullrich A, Neuhauser H, Maier B, Group AR, Hans FP, Blaschke S. Establishing Syndromic Surveillance of Acute Coronary Syndrome, Myocardial Infarction, and Stroke: Registry Study Based on Routine Data From German Emergency Departments. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2025 Feb.; 11e66218—e66218.      [DOI]      [File] 

Ibargüen-González L, Heller S, López-García D, Dietenberger H, Barth TF, Gallego P, Fernández-Cadenas I, Alzate-Piñol S, Crespí C, Mena-Guerrero JA, Cisneros-Barroso E, Ugalde AP, Bretones G, Steenblock C, Kleger A, DeDiego ML, Barceló C. Host factor PLAC8 is required for pancreas infection by SARS-CoV-2. Communications Medicine. 2025 Feb.; 5(1):34.      [DOI]      [File] 

Bienzeisler J, Kombeiz A, Ehrentreich S, Otto R, Schirrmeister W, Pegoraro M, Brammen D, Puladi B, Röhrig R, W Majeed R. Implementation report on pioneering federated data access for the German National Emergency Department Data Registry. npj Digital Medicine. 2025 Feb.; 8(1):94.      [DOI]      [File] 

Kottlors J, Hahnfeldt R, Görtz L, Iuga A, Fervers P, Bremm J, Zopfs D, Laukamp KR, Onur OA, Lennartz S, Schönfeld M, Maintz D, Kabbasch C, Persigehl T, Schlamann M. Large Language Models-Supported Thrombectomy Decision-Making in Acute Ischemic Stroke Based on Radiology Reports: Feasibility Qualitative Study.. Journal of medical Internet research. 2025 Feb.;      [DOI] 

Li J, Zhou Z, Yang J, Pepe A, Gsaxner C, Luijten G, Qu C, Zhang T, Chen X, Li W, Wodzinski M, Friedrich P, Xie K, Jin Y, Ambigapathy N, Nasca E, Solak N, Melito GM, Vu VD, Memon AR, Schlachta C, De Ribaupierre S, Patel R, Eagleson R, Chen X, Mächler H, Kirschke JS, Rosa E, Christ PF, Li HB, Ellis DG, Aizenberg MR, Gatidis S, Küstner T, Shusharina N, Heller N, Andrearczyk V, Depeursinge A, Hatt M, Sekuboyina A, Löffler MT, Liebl H, Dorent R, Vercauteren T, Shapey J, Kujawa A, Cornelissen S, Langenhuizen P, Ben-Hamadou A, Rekik A, Pujades S, Boyer E, Bolelli F, Grana C, Lumetti L, Salehi H, Ma J, Zhang Y, Gharleghi R, Beier S, Sowmya A, Garza-Villarreal EA, Balducci T, Angeles-Valdez D, Souza R, Rittner L, Frayne R, Ji Y, Ferrari V, Chatterjee S, Dubost F, Schreiber S, Mattern H, Speck O, Haehn D, John C, Nürnberger A, Pedrosa J, Ferreira C, Aresta G, Cunha A, Campilho A, Suter Y, Garcia J, Lalande A, Vandenbossche V, Van Oevelen A, Duquesne K, Mekhzoum H, Vandemeulebroucke J, Audenaert E, Krebs C, Leeuwen T, Vereecke E, Heidemeyer H, Röhrig R, Hölzle F, Badeli V, Krieger K, Gunzer M, Chen J, Meegdenburg T, Dada A, Balzer M, Fragemann J, Jonske F, Rempe M, Malorodov S, Bahnsen FH, Seibold C, Jaus A, Marinov Z, Jaeger PF, Stiefelhagen R, Santos AS, Lindo M, Ferreira A, Alves V, Kamp M, Abourayya A, Nensa F, Hörst F, Brehmer A, Heine L, Hanusrichter Y, Weßling M, Dudda M, Podleska LE, Fink MA, Keyl J, Tserpes K, Kim M, Elhabian S, Lamecker H, Zukić D, Paniagua B, Wachinger C, Urschler M, Duong L, Wasserthal J, Hoyer PF, Basu O, Maal T, Witjes MJH, Schiele G, Chang T, Ahmadi S, Luo P, Menze B, Reyes M, Deserno TM, Davatzikos C, Puladi B, Fua P, Yuille AL, Kleesiek J, Egger J. MedShapeNet - a large-scale dataset of 3D medical shapes for computer vision. Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering. 2025 Feb.; 70(1):71-90.      [DOI]      [File] 

Hamm CA, Asbach P, Pöhlmann A, Schoots IG, Kasivisvanathan V, Henkel TO, Johannsen M, Speck T, Baur ADJ, Haas M, Collettini F, Penzkofer T, Savic LJ, Konietschke F, Weißbach L, Hamm B, König F, Cash H. Oncological Safety of MRI-Informed Biopsy Decision-Making in Men With Suspected Prostate Cancer. JAMA oncology. 2025 Feb.; 11(2):145-153.      [DOI]      [File] 

Pöhler GH, Voskrebenzev A, Heinze M, Skeries V, Klimeš F, Glandorf J, Eckstein J, Babazade N, Wernz M, Pfeil A, Hansen G, Wacker FK, Vogel-Claussen J, Wetzke M, Renz DM. Phase-resolved Functional Lung MRI Reveals Distinct Lung Perfusion Phenotype in Children and Adolescents with Post-COVID-19 Condition. Radiology. 2025 Feb.; 314(2):e241596.      [DOI]      [File] 

Saldanha OL, Zhu J, Müller-Franzes G, Carrero ZI, Payne NR, Escudero Sánchez L, Varoutas PC, Kyathanahally S, Laleh NG, Pfeiffer K, Ligero M, Behner J, Abdullah KA, Apostolakos G, Kolofousi C, Kleanthous A, Kalogeropoulos M, Rossi C, Nowakowska S, Athanasiou A, Perez-Lopez R, Mann R, Veldhuis W, Camps J, Schulz V, Wenzel M, Morozov S, Ciritsis A, Kuhl C, Gilbert FJ, Truhn D, Kather JN. Swarm learning with weak supervision enables automatic breast cancer detection in magnetic resonance imaging.. Communications medicine. 2025 Feb.;      [DOI] 

Grikscheit K, Berger A, Rabenau H, Kohmer N, Appel KS, Scherer M, Bals R, Blaschke S, Hamprecht A, Hopff SM, Krefting D, Meybohm P, Nürnberger C, Heuschmann P, Pley C, Miranda SMN, Dahl E, Jensen B, Illig T, Anton G, Vehreschild JJ, Ciesek S. Occurrence and clinical correlates of SARS-CoV-2 viremia in two German patient cohorts. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 2025 Jan. 23; 14(1):2459137.      [DOI] 

Lindholz M, Ruppel R, Schulze-Weddige S, Baumgärtner GL, Schobert I, Panten A, Schmidt R, Auer TA, Nawabi J, Haack A, Stepansky L, Poggi L, Hosch R, Hamm CA, Penzkofer T. Analyzing the TotalSegmentator for facial feature removal in head CT scans.. Radiography (London, England : 1995). 2025 Jan.;      [DOI] 

Louizi C, Khadhraoui E, Lotz J, Behme D, Fuchs E, Kowallick JT, Müller SJ. Association of cervical artery stenosis with common cerebral microvascular lesions and coronary artery calcifications.. Frontiers in neuroimaging. 2025;      [DOI] 

Leberzammer J, Abplanalp WT, Grikscheit K, Solomonidis EG, Glaser S, Schuhmacher B, Merten M, Jeremijev G, Wilken-Schmitz A, Korth L, John D, Günther S, Kuenne C, Looso M, Valasarajan C, Benes V, Jung F, Niehaus V, Anton G, Stellbrink C, Römmele C, Göpel S, Pullamsetti SS, Vehreschild J, Vehreschild M, Ciesek S, Leistner DM, Zeiher AM, Dimmeler S, Cremer S. Atherosclerosis licenses for an exceeding immune response in COVID-19 disease by interferon priming in circulating myeloid cells. Cardiovascular research. 2025;      [DOI] 

Moradi N, Ferreira A, Puladi B, Kleesiek J, Fatemizadeh E, Luijten G, Alves V, Egger J. Comparative Analysis of nnUNet and MedNeXt for Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation in MRI-Guided Radiotherapy.. Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation for MR-Guided Applications : First MICCAI Challenge, HNTS-MRG 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 17, 2024, proceedings. 2025;      [DOI] 

Stoffers-Winterling J, Wiegand H, Broll J, Schaefer S, Adorjan K, Tuescher O, Lieb K. COVID-19-Pandemie und die psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland: Verlauf, resiliente und vulnerable Gruppen. Der Nervenarzt. 2025;      [DOI]      [File] 

Graf M, Ziegelmayer S, Reischl S, Teumer Y, Gassert FT, Marka AW, Raffler P, Bachmann J, Makowski M, Reim D, Lohöfer F, Burian E, Braren R. CT-Derived Quantitative Image Features Predict Neoadjuvant Treatment Response in Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction with High Accuracy.. Cancers. 2025 Jan.;      [DOI] 

Schmitt J, Ihle P, Schoffer O, Reese J, Ortmann S, Swart E, Hanß S, Hoffmann F, Stallmann C, Kraus M, Semler SC, Heyder R, Vehreschild JJ, Heuschmann P, Krefting D, Sedlmayr M, Hoffmann W. Datennutzung für eine bessere Gesundheitsversorgung—Plädoyer für eine kooperative Forschungsdatenplattform der gesetzlichen und privaten Krankenversicherung und dem Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (NUM). Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)). 2025; 87(S 02):S279-S288.      [DOI] 

Evers J, Altschuck N, Mehl C, Ruethrich L, Harst L, Walther F, Steidle O, Suckow A, Hecker R, Schmitt J, Geraedts M. Development of a pandemic-related core set of quality indicators for quality and patient safety in University Hospitals in Germany.. BMC Health Serv Research. 2025;      [DOI]      [File] 

Abosabie SA, Kao T, Auer TA, Schnapauff D, Fehrenbach U, Collettini F, Jonczyk M, Lüdemann WM, Hamm CA, Wieners G, Schmidt R, Yilmaz EY, He Y, Gebauer B, Frisch A, Savic LJ. Effects of contrast medium injection pressure on angiographic image quality. Frontiers in radiology. 2025; 51723413.      [DOI]      [File] 

Nawabi J, Schulze-Weddige S, Baumgärtner GL, Orth T, Dell'Orco A, Morotti A, Mazzacane F, Kniep H, Hanning U, Scheel M, Fiehler J, Penzkofer T. End-to-end machine learning based discrimination of neoplastic and non-neoplastic intracerebral hemorrhage on computed tomography. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked. 2025; 54101633.      [DOI]      [File]