QuantLuPe

In the three‑year project QuantLuPe, researchers at KIT contribute their expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research Data Management (RDM ), which is combined with the medical and lung MRI expertise at DIR . Together, they aim to further develop an automatic and robust perfusion quantification tool for dynamic contrast‑enhanced MRI (DCE‑MRI) of the lung. The overarching goal is to enable fully automatic perfusion quantification within the multicenter COSYCONET study , which includes around 600 patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD ).

Funding Information

Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 

Funding period: October 2025 – September 2028

Participating Institutions

• Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT )
• Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), 
  Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD)

Project Leads

• Prof. Dr. med. Hans‑Ulrich Kauczor, M.D. (DIR-UKHD)
• Dr.-Ing. Michael Selzer  (INT-KIT)

Team Members

• Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Biederer (DIR-UKHD )
• PD Dr. rer. nat. Simon Triphan (DIR-UKHD )
• Dr. rer. nat. Pavlína Miklánková (DIR-UKHD )
• Muhammed S. Kocak (KIT & DIR-UKHD )
• Julian Grolig (KIT & DIR-UKHD )
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Britta Nestler (KIT )
• Dr.-Ing. Arnd Koeppe (KIT )
• Dr.-Ing. Lars Griem (KIT )