Siemens Molecular Imaging

Siemens Molecular Imaging creates software that helps doctors to do their job better, by making it easier for them to interpret medical scans. We develop new technologies for image fusion, analysis, quantification and visualisation. We aim to improve patient outcomes and clinician confidence through the use of intelligent 'image processing'.

Siemens MI's interest is to expand its competence in fusion to other departments and other applications such as per-operative imaging and robot-assisted surgery. The recent developments of the technology in this area have clearly demonstrated positive successes, which will certainly feedback into patient and hospital management at a later stage. Currently, one of the main challenges resides in being able to make all these technologies (robotics, fusion, etc.) work together in an efficient way. An ambitious project like ARIS*ER is certainly an efficient solution to provide points of contact and a unified and managed collaboration framework for all the companies, research institutes and hospitals to build a workable solution.

Siemens MI is a 65 employee group, including 7 experienced researchers and 1 PhD students in its research department, and has regularly some interns coming for a short stay to be trained as part of their University program. Siemens MI has also established collaborations with academic institutions, such as the Wolfson Medical Vision Laboratory from the University of Oxford, and is used to train its researchers, students and trainees by doing research within the company or in collaboration with other institutions.