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Publicly funded research projects.

Anchored in Rostock, connected across Europe, from document AI to medical and maritime research.

The KI-DERA consortium at the project kick-off in Rostock

KI-DERA

2026

Explainable-AI radiology assistant for dementia diagnostics from MRI.

DEJ Technology · DZNE · Universitätsmedizin Rostock (IfDIR)

Medical AI
Dr. Falko Baustian presenting SPOC-AI at the AI colloquium of the University of Rostock

SPOC-AI

2024

LLMs and multi-agent architectures for privacy-compliant, explainable document workflows.

ALTOW Digital Innovation · Universität Rostock (CITlab)

Document AI
Colleagues in conversation at a poster at the Ocean Technology Campus cluster meeting

OTC-DaTA2Model

2024

Generic AI foundation model for object recognition in the maritime underwater domain.

EvoLogics · GEO-DV · Subsea Europe · IOW · Uni Rostock · Fraunhofer IGD

Maritime AI

OTC-Genomics2

2024

Genomics and marine environment analysis.

Leibniz IOW · LGC Genomics · HYDRO-BIOS

Maritime AI
The CAPTAIN consortium in front of a rescue helicopter

CAPTAIN

2023

Medical image analysis.

PolyDiagnost · Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

Paper at MIDL 2026 →

Medical AI

Ocean Technology Campus · DaTA

2022

Maritime AI and probabilistic digital twins from heterogeneous sensor data.

EvoLogics · IAV · Fraunhofer IGD · Uni Rostock · IOW

Maritime AI

Ocean Technology Campus · Genomics

2022

Genomics for marine environmental monitoring.

Leibniz IOW · LGC Genomics · Hydrobios · Fraunhofer IGD

Maritime AI

Intelligent Radiological Assistant (IRA)

2020

EU-funded radiological assistance system.

Universitätsmedizin

EU funding for IRA (2020) →

IRA Spine at MEDICA 2021 →

Medical AI

NewsEye

2019

Recognition and layout analysis for historical newspapers and handwriting (EU).

Uni Rostock · La Rochelle · Helsinki · Innsbruck · Montpellier · Wien · Österr. Nationalbibliothek · Nationalbibliothek Frankreich

Document AI

READ

2016

Recognition of historical handwriting from European heritage, 1500 to 1800 (EU Horizon 2020, grant 674943).

Uni Rostock · Greifswald · Nationalarchive FI/NO/SE · Erlangen-Nürnberg · Innsbruck · Valencia · Edinburgh · Wien

Document AI

Automatic Full-Text Recognition (tranScriptorium)

2014

Automatic full-text recognition in historical handwritten documents (EU).

EU-Konsortium

Document AI

ORGANIC

2009

Self-organizing recurrent neural networks for language processing.

Uni Graz · INSERM · Uni Ghent · Jacobs University Bremen

Foundations