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We are very happy to announce that the app YogiTherapy was just published in the Google Play Store and Apple Store in English and German. YogiTherapy is an e-health application tailored to patients with ankylosing spondylitis, which is a systemic rheumatic disease affecting the spinal column and adj...

Recently Ines Kahlert from Merck and Professor Björn Eskofier from our lab discussed directions toward a smarter healthcare ecosystem. Our goal at the MaD Lab is to improve patient care by providing continuous monitoring during the course of disease using machine learning. Thereby, chronically ill p...

Alexander joined the Lab in June 2022. He completed both his bachelor's and master's degrees in medical engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. He specialized in device engineering and prosthetics. He got his first hands-on experience with biomechanics during his bachelor's thesis about gesture recog...

On the 4th of July 2022 the SMART Start team and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg invite you to a keynote and panel discussion on opportunities and challenges in digital pregnancy care. Join us! 19:30 - 21:30 d.hip / Henkestraße 127 91052 Erlangen  

Madeleine Flaucher and colleagues published their recent work "Smartphone-Based Colorimetric Analysis of Urine Test Strips for At-Home Prenatal Care" in the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. This work has been a result of a great cooperation between the MaD Lab and th...

Dear @FAU Students, The Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MaD) Lab is excited to offer a wide range of seminars in the upcoming summer semester (SS22). The common denominator is AI applied to the most diverse fields. These seminars offer you the opportunity to dive directly into the hottest to...

We are pleased to announce that our latest paper "Wearable Sensors for Activity Recognition in Ultimate Frisbee Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning“ is now published at Sensors MDPI. The Paper is published open access: https://www.mdpi.com/1561288 We developed the first...

We are pleased to announce that the paper "SVC-onGoing: Signature verification competition" is now published in the Journal of Pattern Recognition.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320322000905 Mohamad Wehbi has great experience in the topic of writing recognition, t...

We are pleased to announce that our latest paper "Wearable gait analysis systems: ready to be used by medical practitioners in geriatric wards?" is now published in the journal of the European Geriatric Medicine Society. Gait Analysis was one of the first topics researched at the MaD Lab. Togethe...

We are proud to announce MaD Labs' first ACI (Animal-Computer-Interaction) paper  ??‍❄️ https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/6/692 Every institution that keeps animals under human care must ensure animal welfare. To analyze the state of an animal, various measurements can be performed, such as bl...