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Center for Medical Data Science About us

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Posch

Vision/Mission

Technology transforms medicine into data science. We are working on a future in which each person is treated in full consideration of their individual characteristics, environment and needs. Our research creates knowledge from data, leading to healthier individuals and a resilient society.

The Center for Medical Data Science combines cutting-edge methodological know-how from a range of quantitative domains to foster data-driven medical research. It provides a platform for research, collaboration and education in medical data science at the Medical University of Vienna.

We strive toward advancing algorithms and quantitative methods in statistics, mathematics, computer science and related fields to develop advanced experimental design and analysis methods of data in biology and medicine, including clinical and molecular data, and applying them to concrete research questions in cooperation with biologists and clinicians at the Medical University of Vienna, as well as with national and international cooperation partners.

Research

Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Institute of Clinical Biometrics
Institute of Medical Statistics
Institute of Medical Information Management
Institute of Outcomes Research
Institute of the Science of Complex Systems
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18. September 2025

Jan Drugowitsch (Harvard Medical School) seminar on a theory of neural responses in the hippocampus on Oct 14th, 2025

Heterogeneity of neural response patterns boosts information, as exemplified in hippocampal neural populations encoding spatial location
14. January 2025

MedUni Vienna mourns the loss of Susanne Rom

04. December 2024

Hrvoje Bogunović receives renowned ERC Consolidator Grant

We congratulate Hrvoje Bogunović on receiving a 2 million euro Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for his “HealthAEye” project.
24. October 2024

Pavla Krotka receives prize for her master’s thesis in applied statistics

Pavla Krotka was awarded the prize for the best master’s thesis in applied statistics by the Austrian Statistical Society for her master’s thesis…

Study, Education and Training

Overview of Our Courses in WS 2024/25
The Medicine Degree Programme
The Medical Informatics Master’s Programme
The Molecular Precision Medicine Master’s Programme
PhD Programme “Medical Informatics, Biostatistics and Complex Systems”
>> As of 3.10.: Open Lecture “Health 4.0 – Digital Transformation in Healthcare”
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Barata C., Rotemberg V., Codella N.C.F., Tschandl P., Rinner C., Akay B.N., Apalla Z., Argenziano G., Halpern A., Lallas A., Longo C., Malvehy J., Puig S., Rosendahl C., Soyer H.P., Zalaudek I., Kittler H.

A Reinforcement Learning Model for AI-Based Decision Support in Skin Cancer

We investigated whether human preferences hold the potential to improve diagnostic artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision support using skin cancer diagnosis as a use case. We utilized nonuniform rewards and penalties based on expert-generated tables, balancing the benefits and harms of various diagnostic errors, which were applied using reinforcement learning.
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Stamm T.A., Partheymüller J., Mosor E., Ritschl V., Kritzinger S., Alunno A., Eberl J.-M.

Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Fatigue

There is growing concern that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine fatigue will be a major obstacle in maintaining immunity in the general population. In this study, Tanja Stamm et al. assessed vaccine acceptance in future scenarios in two conjoint experiments, investigating determinants such as new vaccines, communication, costs/incentives and legal rules.
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GINGER: A Web Interface for Sample Size Planning for Animal Experiments

At the Institute of Clinical Biometrics, a web-based tool for the design of animal experiments was developed. In contrast to other software for experimental design, the webtool GINGER is specialised on multi-group designs and considers benefits in power by application of ANOVA and corrections for multiplicity by the methods of Tukey, Dunnett or Bonferroni. GINGER also offers tutorials and example applications. It is based on the statistical software R-shiny.
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NCC: Design and Analysis of Platform Trials with Non-Concurrent Controls

This software, developed at the Institute of Medical Statistics, provides functions for data generation, analysis, visualisation and execution of simulation studies. The implemented analysis methods are described in:
Bofill Roig M., Krotka P., Burman C.-F., Glimm E., Gold S.M., Hees K., Jacko P., Koenig F., Magirr D., Mesenbrink P., Viele K., Posch M. (2022) On Model-Based Time Trend Adjustments in Platform Trials with Non-Concurrent Controls. BMC Medical Research Methodology 22:228.
Saville B.R., Berry D.A., Berry N.S., Viele K., Berry S.M. (2022) The Bayesian Time Machine: Accounting for temporal drift in multi-arm platform trials. Clinical Trials 19(5), 490–501.
Schmidli H., Gsteiger S., Roychoudhury S., O’Hagan A., Spiegelhalter D., Neuenschwander B. (2014) Robust meta-analytic-predictive priors in clinical trials with historical control information. Biometrics 70(4), 1023–1032.
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