We develop novel technology and analysis methods for medical imaging to offer more bespoke and eloquent information for medical diagnosis and decision making. Combining MR physics and real-time AI allows for a more efficient, motion-robust and individual imaging. We work in close collaboration with clinicians, biologists, computer scientists and engineers – always looking for challenging questions to contribute to.
Research projects
Novel MR technology to use the internal motion of our organs – peristaltic motion – for diagnostic insights (peristalsis in Real-Time Human MRI to study the interwoven frequency & microstructural properties, EARTHWORM)
Motion-robust and self-driving MRI (MRI Examination Enhanced by Real-time Knowledge during acquisition time, MEERKAT)
Non-invasive image to unravel novel information on the etiology of adenomyosis (Imaging and Modeling Adenomyosis Lesions and Adjacent microenvironments, IMPALA)
Increasing the success rate of unsedated MRI in children (Children-Oriented Real-time MRI Acquisition, COBRA)
EARTHWORM: pEristAlsis in Real-Time Human mri to study the interWOven fRequency & Microstructural properties
(Third Party Funds Single)
Project leader: Jana Hutter Term: 1. December 2024 - 30. November 2029 Acronym: DR-EUC-ERC-09_EARTHWORM Funding source: Europäische Union (EU)
Bustos Vivas, M., Tripathy, S., & Hutter, J. (2026). A Prospective Dual-Modality Tool for Monitoring Uterine Peristalsis: Integrating Dynamic MRI and Electrohysterography. In M. Emre Celebi, Johanna Paula Müller, Catarina Barata, Allan Halpern, Philipp Tschandl, Marc Combalia, Yuan Liu, Kumar Abhishek, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Moi Hoon Yap, Katharina Breininger, Maximilian Lindholz, Jana Hutter, Richard Ruppel, Smiti Tripathy, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Stefanie Burghaus, Matthias May (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 125-136). Daejeon, KOR: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Liu, D., Arias-Vergara, T., Hutter, J., Maier, A., & Perez Toro, P.A. (2026). Audio–Vision Contrastive Learning for Phonological Class Recognition. In Kamil Ekštein, Miloslav Konopík, Ondrej Pražák, František Pártl (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 60-71). Erlangen, DEU: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Uus, A.U., Bansal, S., Gerek, Y., Waheed, H., Silva, S.N., Verdera, J.A.,... Rutherford, M.A. (2026). Automated Biometry for Assessing Cephalopelvic Disproportion in 3D 0.55T Fetal MRI at Term. In Daphna Link-Sourani, Esra Abaci Turk, Wietske Bastiaansen, Jana Hutter, Andrew Melbourne, Roxane Licandro (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 130-140). Daejeon, KR: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Bhatia, D., Aviles Verdera, J., Kitzberger, M., Tripathy, S., Bustos Vivas, M., Kratzsch, L.,... Hutter, J. (2025). Real-Time Automated Analysis and Reporting of Uterine MRI. In M. Emre Celebi, Johanna Paula Müller, Catarina Barata, Allan Halpern, Philipp Tschandl, Marc Combalia, Yuan Liu, Kumar Abhishek, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Moi Hoon Yap, Katharina Breininger, Maximilian Lindholz, Jana Hutter, Richard Ruppel, Smiti Tripathy, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Stefanie Burghaus, Matthias May (Eds.), Skin Image Analysis, and Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health. 10th International Workshop, ISIC 2025, and First International Workshop, CAPI 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 137-147). Daejeon: Cham: Springer.
Bortolazzi, A., Verdera, J.A., Payette, K., Silva, S.N., Rutherford, M., Hajnal, J., & Hutter, J. (2025). Automatic Assessment of Fetal Multi-echo Diffusion Weighted Scans. In Daphna Link-Sourani, Esra Abaci Turk, Christopher Macgowan, Jana Hutter, Andrew Melbourne, Jana Hutter, Roxane Licandro (Eds.), Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis. 9th International Workshop, PIPPI 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6, 2024, Proceedings (pp. 82-93). Marrakesh, MA: Cham: Springer.
Kitzberger, M., Silva, S.N., Verdera, J.A., Rojas, D.F., Uus, A., Schulz-Heise, S.,... Hutter, J. (2025). Automatic Disentanglement of Motion in Fetal Low Field MRI Scans. In Daphna Link-Sourani, Esra Abaci Turk, Christopher Macgowan, Jana Hutter, Andrew Melbourne, Jana Hutter, Roxane Licandro (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 24-34). Marrakesh, MA: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Müller, J., Knupfer, A., Blöss Braga, P., Vittur, E.B., Kainz, B., & Hutter, J. (2025). Diffusing the Blind Spot: Uterine MRI Synthesis with Diffusion Models. In M. Emre Celebi, Johanna Paula Müller, Catarina Barata, Allan Halpern, Philipp Tschandl, Marc Combalia, Yuan Liu, Kumar Abhishek, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Moi Hoon Yap, Katharina Breininger, Maximilian Lindholz, Jana Hutter, Richard Ruppel, Smiti Tripathy, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Stefanie Burghaus, Matthias May (Eds.), Skin Image Analysis, and Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health. 10th International Workshop, ISIC 2025, and First International Workshop, CAPI 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 93-102). Daejeon, KR: Cham: Springer.
Ruppel, R., Lindholz, M., Schmidt, R., El-Nahry, Y., Mechsner, S., Schulze-Weddige, S.E.E.,... Penzkofer, T. (2025). UteroVAE: A Shape-Informed Variational Autoencoder for Uterine MRI Encoding in Adenomyosis, Fibroids, and Healthy Uteri. In M. Emre Celebi, Johanna Paula Müller, Catarina Barata, Allan Halpern, Philipp Tschandl, Marc Combalia, Yuan Liu, Kumar Abhishek, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, Moi Hoon Yap, Katharina Breininger, Maximilian Lindholz, Jana Hutter, Richard Ruppel, Smiti Tripathy, Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, Stefanie Burghaus, Matthias May (Eds.), Skin Image Analysis, and Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health. 10th International Workshop, ISIC 2025, and First International Workshop, CAPI 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 71-81). Daejeon, KR: Cham: Springer.
Uus, A.U., Zampieri, C.A., Downes, F., Collado, A.E., Hall, M., Davidson, J.,... Story, L. (2025). Towards Automated Multi-regional Lung Parcellation for 0.55-3T 3D T2w Fetal MRI. In Daphna Link-Sourani, Esra Abaci Turk, Christopher Macgowan, Jana Hutter, Andrew Melbourne, Jana Hutter, Roxane Licandro (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 119-129). Marrakesh, MAR: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Alena, U.U., Ayub, M.-U., Gartner, A., Kyriakopoulou, V., Pietsch, M., Grigorescu, I.,... Deprez, M. (2022). Segmentation of Periventricular White Matter in Neonatal Brain MRI: Analysis of Brain Maturation in Term and Preterm Cohorts. In Roxane Licandro, Roxane Licandro, Andrew Melbourne, Jana Hutter, Esra Abaci Turk, Christopher Macgowan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 94-104). Singapore, SGP: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Aviles, J., Colford, K., Hall, M., Marenzana, M., Uus, A., Giles, S.,... Hutter, J. (2022). A Fast Anatomical and Quantitative MRI Fetal Exam at Low Field. In Roxane Licandro, Roxane Licandro, Andrew Melbourne, Jana Hutter, Esra Abaci Turk, Christopher Macgowan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 13-24). Singapore, SGP: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Grigorescu, I., Uus, A., Christiaens, D., Cordero-Grande, L., Hutter, J., Batalle, D.,... Deprez, M. (2022). Attention-Driven Multi-channel Deformable Registration of Structural and Microstructural Neonatal Data. In Roxane Licandro, Roxane Licandro, Andrew Melbourne, Jana Hutter, Esra Abaci Turk, Christopher Macgowan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 71-81). Singapore, SGP: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Grigorescu, I., Uus, A., Christiaens, D., Cordero-Grande, L., Hutter, J., Batalle, D.,... Deprez, M. (2021). Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning Based Deformable Registration. In Carole H. Sudre, Roxane Licandro, Christian Baumgartner, Andrew Melbourne, Adrian Dalca, Jana Hutter, Ryutaro Tanno, Esra Abaci Turk, Koen Van Leemput, Jordina Torrents Barrena, William M. Wells, Christopher Macgowan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 54-63). Virtual, Online: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Heinsalu, R., Williams, L., Ranjan, A., Zampieri, C.A., Uus, A., Robinson, E.C.,... Hutter, J. (2021). Predicting Preterm Birth Using Multimodal Fetal Imaging. In Carole H. Sudre, Roxane Licandro, Christian Baumgartner, Andrew Melbourne, Adrian Dalca, Jana Hutter, Ryutaro Tanno, Esra Abaci Turk, Koen Van Leemput, Jordina Torrents Barrena, William M. Wells, Christopher Macgowan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 284-293). Virtual, Online: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Slator, P.J., Ho, A., Bakalis, S., Jackson, L., Chappell, L.C., Alexander, D.C.,... Hutter, J. (2021). Anisotropy in the Human Placenta in Pregnancies Complicated by Fetal Growth Restriction. In Evren Özarslan, Thomas Schultz, Eugene Zhang, Andrea Fuster (Eds.), Mathematics and Visualization (pp. 263-276). Dagstuhl, DEU: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Uus, A., Matthew, J., Grigorescu, I., Jupp, S., Cordero Grande, L., Price, A.,... Deprez, M. (2021). Spatio-Temporal Atlas of Normal Fetal Craniofacial Feature Development and CNN-Based Ocular Biometry for Motion-Corrected Fetal MRI. In Carole H. Sudre, Roxane Licandro, Christian Baumgartner, Andrew Melbourne, Adrian Dalca, Jana Hutter, Ryutaro Tanno, Esra Abaci Turk, Koen Van Leemput, Jordina Torrents Barrena, William M. Wells, Christopher Macgowan (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 168-178). Virtual, Online: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Licandro, R., Hutter, J., Turk, E.A., Torrents, J., & Melbourne, A. (2020). Preface PIPPI 2020. In Yipeng Hu, Roxane Licandro, J. Alison Noble, Jana Hutter, Andrew Melbourne, Stephen Aylward, Esra Abaci Turk, Jordina Torrents Barrena, Jordina Torrents Barrena (Eds.), Medical Ultrasound, and Preterm, Perinatal and Paediatric Image Analysis - 1st International Workshop, ASMUS 2020, and 5th International Workshop, PIPPI 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Proceedings. (pp. vii-). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Slator, P.J., Hutter, J., Marinescu, R.V., Palombo, M., Jackson, L.H., Ho, A.,... Alexander, D.C. (2020). Data-Driven Multi-contrast Spectral Microstructure Imaging with InSpect. In Anne L. Martel, Purang Abolmaesumi, Danail Stoyanov, Diana Mateus, Maria A. Zuluaga, S. Kevin Zhou, Daniel Racoceanu, Leo Joskowicz (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 375-385). Lima, PER: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Uus, A., Pietsch, M., Grigorescu, I., Christiaens, D., Tournier, J.-D., Grande, L.C.,... Deprez, M. (2020). Multi-channel registration for diffusion mri: longitudinal analysis for the neonatal brain. In Ziga Spiclin, Jamie McClelland, Jan Kybic, Orcun Goksel (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 111-121). Portoroz, SVN: Springer.
Uus, A., Steinweg, J.K., Ho, A., Jackson, L.H., Hajnal, J.V., Rutherford, M.A.,... Hutter, J. (2020). Deformable Slice-to-Volume Registration for Reconstruction of Quantitative T2* Placental and Fetal MRI. In Yipeng Hu, Roxane Licandro, J. Alison Noble, Jana Hutter, Andrew Melbourne, Stephen Aylward, Esra Abaci Turk, Jordina Torrents Barrena, Jordina Torrents Barrena (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (pp. 222-232). Lima, PER: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
We develop novel technology and analysis methods for medical imaging to offer more bespoke and eloquent information for medical diagnosis and decision making. Combining MR physics and real-time AI allows for a more efficient, motion-robust and individual imaging. We work in close collaboration with clinicians, biologists, computer scientists and engineers – always looking for challenging questions to contribute to.
Research projects
EARTHWORM: pEristAlsis in Real-Time Human mri to study the interWOven fRequency & Microstructural properties
(Third Party Funds Single)
Term: 1. December 2024 - 30. November 2029
Acronym: DR-EUC-ERC-09_EARTHWORM
Funding source: Europäische Union (EU)
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