Engineering for Health
Welcome to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). For more than 60 years we have been active in research and teaching in the field of biomedical engineering.
In interdisciplinary projects together with medical doctors and medical industry, we investigate new technical systems that help to diagnose diseases earlier and more accurately as well as systems that make therapies more successful.
Optical Imaging for intraoperative navigation and diagnosis – providing structural and functional information
Lead: Werner Nahm
Planning, personalization and monitoring of medical treatments
Lead: Maria Francesca Spadea
Mathematical simulations for optimizing cardiovascular prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Lead: Axel Loewe
TrackAF aims to improve the prediction, diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation and atrial cardiomyopathy through interdisciplinary research and innovative computational models, and to develop personalised prevention and treatment strategies.
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With more than 4,000 participants, the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) took place in Strasbourg in September 2026. Jule from the CaMo group of the IBT presented her poster "Beyond the Left Atrium: Joint Generative Modeling of Bi-Atrial Anatomy" at the associated STACOM workshop (Statistical Atlases and Computational Modeling of the Heart). In her work, she introduces a generative deep learning model for creating synthetic bi-atrial cohorts.
Beyond the presentations, the congress offered a great opportunity for scientific exchange, fresh ideas, and valuable conversations with the international research community.
Our group was represented at Computing in Cardiology (CinC) 2026 in Madrid with five oral presentations by Pascal, Carola, Jonathan, Axel, and Lukas, as well as three posters presented by Jule, Julian, and Silvia. The contributions covered a broad range of topics, including atrial cardiomyopathy, Takotsubo syndrome, ECG signal processing, cardiac fibrosis, and more.
It was a great opportunity to meet members of the CinC community, exchange ideas, discuss current research, and connect with researchers from around the world.
A new study systematically and comparably characterizes atrial electrophysiology in humans, mice, rats, pigs, and horses. The work was led by Amelie Paasche and the team in Heidelberg, with contributions from Ghent, Göttingen, and Karlsruhe. The results support the transfer and contextualization of findings between species and may help avoid repeat experiments – contributing to the 3Rs.
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Ana Montañés is working on atrial fibrillation triggers and lifestyle-related effects within the TrackAF project.
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Diego Creta conducts research on assessing atrial fibrillation risk from the amplified P-wave within the TrackAF project.
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Werner Nahm ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
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Head of Institute
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Head of Computational Cardiac Modeling
+49 721 608 - 42790Axel Loewe ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
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