Publications in the NUM

Allgoewer K, Lavenia A, Secco L, Schaller T, Fitzek A, Kriebel C, Azeke AT, Kondo T, Tse R, Chui P, Schmiedel S, Ondruschka B. Autopsy practices for high-consequence infectious diseases: Global guidelines, alternatives, and the BSL-4 gap. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 2026 May;      [DOI]      [File] 

Benesch Vidal ML, Haack A, Anders-Lohner S, Munzinger J, Keil LD, Albrecht JN, Borger L, Twerenbold R, Ondruschka B, Blankenberg S, Becher PM. Implementation of post-mortem examinations within a large population-based cohort: results from the Hamburg City Health Study. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 2026 Jan.;      [DOI]      [File] 

Kuderna AK, Schneider NK, Heyder R, Schmidt G, Boor P. Infrastructure and policy reforms to facilitate collaboration in medical research. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 2026 Jun.;      [DOI]      [File] 

Bartsch P, Krebs O, Augustin C, Aepfelbacher M, Rohde H, Berinson B. IS-Pro-based pathogen detection in explanted heart valves of suspected endocarditis patients. Microbiology Spectrum. 2026 Mar.; 14e03984—25.      [DOI]      [File] 

Bergmann J, Balandin A, Drynda S, Elke G, Klein M, Otto R, Schunk D. Kinder und Jugendliche in deutschen Notaufnahmen. Medizinische Klinik - Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin. 2026 Apr.; 121(3):193—200.      [DOI]      [File] 

Düsing H, Otto R, Raschke M, Walcher F, Drynda S, Waydhas C, Oeckenpöhler S. Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie in deutschen Notaufnahmen. Die Unfallchirurgie. 2026 Feb.;      [DOI]      [File] 

Heinrich F, Lücke J, Zhang S, Sabihi M, Bernreuther C, Giersch K, Allweiss L, Hartmann K, Thies E, Lange P, Matschke J, Kühl AA, Mothes R, Radbruch H, Schröder AS, Heinemann A, Dandri M, Aepfelbacher M, Huber S, Giannou A, Glatzel M, Ondruschka B, Lütgehetmann M, Krasemann S. Spatiotemporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and vaccine-related proteins in mice and humans. Scientific Reports. 2026 May; 16(1):15479.      [DOI]      [File] 

Bienzeisler J, Hertwig MK, Heidemeyer H, Alhaskir M, Majeed RW, Kombeiz A, Hoy W, Huening S, Goettgens F, Unterkofler J, Rademacher S, Panagiotidis D, Marewski V, Sommer A, Schirrmeister W, Walcher F, Otto R, Ehrentreich S, Beyel HH, Peeva V, Schwanen CT, Pegoraro M, Zoch-Lesniak B, Pollmanns J, Wittmar R, Stillfried DG, Röhrig R, Beckers SK, Aalst WMP, Brokmann JC. Trans-sectoral patient pathways in urgent and emergency care (TRANSPARENT study): protocol for a prospective, mixed-methods study in Germany. BMJ Open. 2026; 16(2):      [DOI] 

TRANSPARENT , Group AR, Bienzeisler J, Heidemeyer H, Roehrig R, Kombeiz A, Alhaskir M, Hertwig M, Unterkofler J, Brokmann J, Otto R, Panagiotidis D, Beyel HH, Pegoraro M, Peeva V, Schwanen CT, Van Der Aalst WMP, Zoch-Lesniak B, Wittmar R, Majeed RW. A Regional Data Space for Urgent and Emergency Care in Germany. In: Giacomini, Mauro and Delgado, Jaime and Arvanitis, Theodoros N. and Andrikopoulou, Elisavet and Benis, Arriel and Balestra, Gabriella and Bellazzi, Riccardo and Gallos, Parisis and Gatta, Roberto and Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto and Giordano, Noemi and Hägglund, Maria and Lindsköld, Lars and Lhotska, Lenka and Marceglia, Sara and Parimbelli, Enea and Sacchi, Lucia and Soda, Paolo and Stoicu-Tivadar, Lăcrămioara and Veltri, Pierangelo and Vizza, Patrizia, editors. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press; 2026 May.      [DOI]      [File] 

Heidemeyer H, Wedek E, Majeed RW, Heitmann KU, Kombeiz A, Ehrentreich S, Drynda S, Otto R, Schirrmeister W, Röhrig R, Bienzeisler J. Extending Interoperable Emergency Department Data: Standards-Based Design and Evaluation in AKTIN. In: Giacomini, Mauro and Delgado, Jaime and Arvanitis, Theodoros N. and Andrikopoulou, Elisavet and Benis, Arriel and Balestra, Gabriella and Bellazzi, Riccardo and Gallos, Parisis and Gatta, Roberto and Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto and Giordano, Noemi and Hägglund, Maria and Lindsköld, Lars and Lhotska, Lenka and Marceglia, Sara and Parimbelli, Enea and Sacchi, Lucia and Soda, Paolo and Stoicu-Tivadar, Lăcrămioara and Veltri, Pierangelo and Vizza, Patrizia, editors. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press; 2026 May.      [DOI]      [File] 

Tahar K, Schirrmeister W, Ehrentreich S, Drynda S, Bienzeisler J, Walcher F, Otto R. Harmonized Data Quality Assessments on Emergency Data Across Multiple Hospitals. In: Giacomini, Mauro and Delgado, Jaime and Arvanitis, Theodoros N. and Andrikopoulou, Elisavet and Benis, Arriel and Balestra, Gabriella and Bellazzi, Riccardo and Gallos, Parisis and Gatta, Roberto and Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto and Giordano, Noemi and Hägglund, Maria and Lindsköld, Lars and Lhotska, Lenka and Marceglia, Sara and Parimbelli, Enea and Sacchi, Lucia and Soda, Paolo and Stoicu-Tivadar, Lăcrămioara and Veltri, Pierangelo and Vizza, Patrizia, editors. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press; 2026 May.      [DOI]      [File] 

Group AR, Kombeiz A, Wedek E, Hüning S, Heidemeyer H, Majeed RW, Röhrig R, Bienzeisler J. Implementing a Secure CI/CD Pipeline for Verifiable Trust in a Federated Health Data Network. In: Giacomini, Mauro and Delgado, Jaime and Arvanitis, Theodoros N. and Andrikopoulou, Elisavet and Benis, Arriel and Balestra, Gabriella and Bellazzi, Riccardo and Gallos, Parisis and Gatta, Roberto and Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto and Giordano, Noemi and Hägglund, Maria and Lindsköld, Lars and Lhotska, Lenka and Marceglia, Sara and Parimbelli, Enea and Sacchi, Lucia and Soda, Paolo and Stoicu-Tivadar, Lăcrămioara and Veltri, Pierangelo and Vizza, Patrizia, editors. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press; 2026 May.      [DOI]      [File] 

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Bartenschlager C, Frey R, Freitag M, et al . Managing hospital visitor admission during Covid-19: A discrete-event simulation by the data of a German University Hospital.      [DOI] 

Klein C, Borsche M, Balck A, et al . One-year surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 transmission of the ELISA Cohort: A model for population-based monitoring of infection risk. Science Adv.

Jukic M, Dunkel A, Haller B, et al . Persistent loss of smell and taste perception in subjects with anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

Kahn M, Zellmer S, Ebigbo A, et al . Progress of the vaccination campaign among HCW in AGP in Germany.

Wulff A, Biermann P, von Landesberger T, et al . A Smart Infection Control System for COVID-19 Infections in Hospitals. In: Conference on 66. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. (GMDS) 2021.     [File] 

Weber F, Pavel V, Müller M, Boor P, Läber L, Stillfried S, Buechler C. Profiles of PCSK9, SREBP-2, and histopathology in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 critical illness. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2025 Nov.; 251573.      [DOI]      [File] 

Von Stillfried S. Von der Obduktion zur Translation. Die Pathologie. 2025 Nov.;      [DOI]      [File] 

Neidhardt M, Bosse L, Raudonis V, Allgoewer K, Heinemann A, Ondruschka B, Schlaefer A. A Digital Twin for Robotic Post Mortem Tissue Sampling using Virtual Reality. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2025 09; 1—6.      [DOI]      [File] 

Schröder AS, Ondruschka B. Krematoriumsleichenschau: eine rechtsmedizinische Betrachtung im Kontext der COVID-19-Pandemie. Rechtsmedizin. 2025 09;      [DOI]      [File] 

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.

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.

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 01 23; 14(1):2459137.      [DOI] 

Buchka S, Hapfelmeier A, Kirschke JS, Steuerwald V, Naumann M, Soto-Rey I, Rohr SO, Kramer F, Behrens L, Oswald E, Kümpfel T, Zimmermann H, Hoffmann VS, Hagedorn M, Albashiti F, Krumbholz M, Ziemann U, Kohlbacher O, Sailer B, Braunmüller V, Biergans S, Herr M, Ernemann U, Bürkle E, Bender B, Daul A, Ruff C, Römhild J, Wiestler B, Sepp D, Spengler H, Pallaoro P, Boeker M, Kohlmayer F, Dehmelt V, Berthele A, Mühlau M, Uibel P, Wauschkuhn J, Kuhn K, Senel M, Vardakas I, Taranu D, Kestler HA, Sollmann N, Ön BI, Bilger S, Mansmann U, Bayas A, Havla J, Kowarik MC, Tumani H, and BH. External validation of a multiple sclerosis treatment decision score using data from the ProVal-MS cohort study. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 2025 Nov. 21; 1817562864251391095.      [DOI] 

Graefe ASL, Rehburg F, Alkarkoukly S, Danis D, Gr"onke A, H"ubner MR, Bartschke A, Debertshäuser T, Klopfenstein SAI, Sass J, Fleck J, Rehberg M, Zsch"untzsch J, Nyoungui EF, Kalashnikova T, Murgu\'ıa-Favela L, Derfalvi B, Wright NAM, Moosa S, Ogishima S, Semler O, Wiegand S, K"uhnen P, Mungall CJ, Haendel MA, Robinson PN, Thun S, Beyan O. RareLink: scalable REDCap-based framework for rare disease interoperability linking international registries to FHIR and Phenopackets. npj Genomic Medicine. 2025 Nov. 18; 10(1):72.

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.

Arruda Botelho M, Ata Baykara C, Burak "Unal A, Pfeifer N, Akg"un M. Privacy-preserving AUC computation in distributed machine learning with PHT-meDIC. PLOS Digital Health. 2025 Nov. 13; 4(11):e0000753.

Macedo M, Wiedekopf J, Hillmer T, Schreiweis B, Saalfeld S, Ulrich H. From text to knowledge: An end-to-end extraction pipeline for clinical information. Stud. Health Technol. Inform.. 2025 Aug. 08; 3291074—1078.

Bronsch T, Anywar M, Kinast B, Ulrich H, Macedo M, Kruse J, Behrend P, Schreiweis B. Implementation of a patient consent management at a German medical data integration center. Stud. Health Technol. Inform.. 2025 Aug. 08; 3291626—1627.

Schramm A, Raidt J, Riepenhausen S, Nygaard CMT, Tenardi-Wenge R, Qvist T, Witt P, Storck M, Olbrich H, Nielsen KG, Omran H. Limitations of PICADAR as a diagnostic predictive tool for primary ciliary dyskinesia. Front. Mol. Biosci.. 2025 Dec. 08; 12(1691758):1691758.

Lohr C, Faller J, Riedel A, Nguyen HM, Wolfien M, Hofenbitzer J, Modersohn L, Romberg J, Prasser F, Omeirat J, Wen Y, Galusch O, Hahn U, Seiferling M, Dieterich C, Kl"ugl P, Matthies F, Kind J, Boeker M, L"offler M, Meineke F. GeMTeX's DE-identification in action: Lessons learned & devil's details. In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. IOS Press; 2025 Sep. 03.

Hoffmann T, U T, Lassen-Schmidt B, D R, LB B, T W, M K, J B, F G, G W, A P. AI-based HRCT quantification reveals DLCO and TLC as key determinants of ILD severity in connective tissue diseases.. RMD open. 2025 Oct.;      [DOI] 

D S, S S, TT M, Zhang Y, L S, D R, R B. AI-driven preclinical disease risk assessment using imaging in UK biobank.. NPJ digital medicine. 2025 Jul.;      [DOI] 

D T, LP S, N B, S G, C F, AK R, Lieb W, S S, W M, C M, M K, N W, T B, S R, K F, JJ V, O J, C M, S A, M L. Alterations of the amygdala in post-COVID olfactory dysfunction.. Scientific reports. 2025 Oct.;      [DOI] 

Schulze-Weddige S, Baumgärtner G, T O, A T, M S, D W, MP W, U H, H K, T P, J N. An Explainable AI Exploration of the Machine Learning Classification of Neoplastic Intracerebral Hemorrhage from Non-Contrast CT.. Cancers. 2025 Jul.;      [DOI] 

Lindholz M, R R, Schulze-Weddige S, Baumgärtner G, I S, A P, R S, TA A, J N, AM H, L S, L P, R H, CA H, T P. Analyzing the TotalSegmentator for facial feature removal in head CT scans.. Radiography (London, England : 1995). 2025 Jan.;      [DOI] 

Hamdan A, El-Amri Y, Heinrich F, Mohamed OAA, Sepulveda-Falla D, Glatzel M, Matschke J, Krasemann S. ApoE4 Homozygosity Is Associated With Increased Microglia Activation in Fatal COVID-19. Neuropathology: Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology. 2025 Dec.; 45(6):e70033.      [DOI] 

C L, E K, J L, D B, E F, JT K, SJ M. 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] 

NA L, A K, T B, OJ O, F P, V S, MS M, R F, C B, J S. Automated quality assurance of imaging dose and protocol adherence in computed tomography radiotherapy planning using TotalSegmentator-based segmentation.. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]. 2025 Nov.;      [DOI] 

L G, M T, S N, D K, W B, JA L, AM S. Automated Scan Region Classification and Patient-specific Dose Modeling for Enhanced Dose Management in Computed Tomography.. Investigative radiology. 2025 Oct.;      [DOI] 

Schulze-Weddige S, U F, J K, R R, Baumgärtner G, Lindholz M, IT S, AM H, H J, M M, D G, B W, T P. Automatic 3D Tracking of Liver Metastases: Follow-Up Assessment of Cancer Patients in Contrast-Enhanced MRI.. Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland). 2025 Aug.;      [DOI] 

Ziegler J, MP E, T F, A S, PC V, Schmidt G, J E, P P, R DSF, F A, M H, E V, J R, S R, A K, JK M, B K, G S, M K, LA K, H G, H S, I S, F A, D H, M E, G F, D K, M B, HU P, C G. 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] 

N M, A F, B P, J K, E F, G L, V A, J E. 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] 

Lindholz M, A B, R R, Schulze-Weddige S, Baumgärtner G, I S, AM H, S E, A M, CA H, A F, T P. Comparing large language models and text embedding models for automated classification of textual, semantic, and critical changes in radiology reports.. European journal of radiology. 2025 Oct.;      [DOI] 

R S, C R, H X, Y H, EY Y, L H, O S, Y L, L N, F H, R R, SA A, CA H, T P, B G, LJ S. 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] 

S E, B L, A D, JA L, J N, T P. 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] 

JM S, HF W, J B, SK S, K A, O T, K. L. COVID-19-Pandemie und die psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland: Verlauf, resiliente und vulnerable Gruppen. Der Nervenarzt. 2025;      [DOI]      [File]