No. 111/2020

36 HUMBOLDT KOSMOS 111/2020 FOCUS ON GERMANY “AI detects disea- ses that the human eye simply doesn’t see” Machines that find good solutions of their own accord – this is the common objective of researchers at the AI centre of excellence, Munich Center for Machine Learn- ing (MCML). They all have backgrounds in data science, computer science and statistics and want to propel the practical application of AI, as well as further basic research. Like Daniel Rückert . At Imperial College Lon- don, the German computer scientist developed algo- rithms that can crucially improve medical imag- ing. Using his calculation rules, tumours and other anomalies in body tissue can be discov- ered more easily and correlated with a clinical picture, for example. “AI enables us to visual- ise things that the human eye can’t detect,” says Daniel Rückert who has been awarded a Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence and is currently negotiating his appointment at the Technical University of Munich. The fact that Munich is an up-and-coming hotspot for AI is a strong argument in favour of the location, according to Rückert, whose eyes light up at the future prospect of using data from imag- ing examinations, lab tests and genetic analyses to draw up a complete image of a patient. MUNICH MACHINE LEARNING: TURNING AI INTO A HELPER MÜNCHEN