Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut

Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) conducts basic research and develops innovations for the digital society of the future. With 700 researchers, HHI advances the fields of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning, wireless communications, video coding, computer vision and imaging technologies, as well as photonics. Impacts of this groundbreaking research are tangible: every second bit on the internet touches video or photonic technology invented or produced by HHI. Of relevance for the World Health Summit are the manifold contributions that HHI makes to the healthcare sector. For the clinic, HHI develops technologies that provide medical assistance: tracking objects, measuring distances, and classifying tissue. In the area of AI, HHI contributes to the quality assurance of decisions (e.g., explainability, trustworthiness, robustness, and uncertainty) and explores the use of AI on data (time series or imagery) from various medical fields (e.g., histopathology, neurology, cardiology, gait analysis, and proteomics). Furthermore, HHI is leading global efforts to benchmark AI for health as a key contributor to the ITU/WHO Focus Group on ‘AI for Health.’