Jena provides insights into biomedical research and innovative AI applications in clinical practice

This year, Jena was once again part of the inter-city “Night of Biosignals” – an event dedicated to communicating biomedical topics and providing a broad audience with insights into the complex signals of the human body. As one of the 14 venues, the main building of the University of Jena once again became a place for exciting lectures, lively discussions, and exchanges on November 7, 2025. This year’s program once again offered a wide variety of topics, ranging from the physical benefits of short exercise sessions to subtle behavioral differences in relationships to the measurability of individual hearing experiences in tinnitus.

As the final speaker, Richard Klein presented current developments and trends in artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. As AI is increasingly changing everyday life and medicine, this topic is a central component of various research projects in our working group. From AI-supported assistance systems and intelligent image processing tools to innovative analysis methods for biosignals, the technology is finding its way into more and more clinical processes and opening up completely new possibilities for diagnostics and therapy.

The presentation included an introduction to the IVOCT software developed as part of the OpenLabKI project, which uses a pre-trained network to automatically detect potentially fatal lesions in coronary arteries. The assistance system for guideline-compliant antibiotic therapy, which had already been presented at the annual meeting of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, was also mentioned. In addition to these selected tools developed in-house, the presentation examined the opportunities, challenges, and potential of new AI applications that could facilitate everyday clinical practice in the future.