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56 publications, last updated on 31 October 2026.

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2026

71st Annual Conference of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)2026

An Interoperable Platform for AI-Based Analytics of Wearable Data

Elias Grünewald, Louis Agha-Mir-Salim, Felix Balzer

Abstract

71st Annual Conference of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)2026

Beyond Rule-Based Risk Assessment: Data-Driven Prediction of Pregnancy and Birth Complications in the FeMaR Project

Kerstin Rubarth, Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Barbara Tabernig, Julia Sommer, Stephanie Roll, Felix Balzer, Brigitte Strizek, Thomas Reinhold, Eva Jansen, Florian Recker, Silke Wegener

Abstract

Medical Informatics Europe2026

Bridging Theory and Practice: A Matrix-Based Approach to Teaching Medical Data Science with MIMIC-IV Demo dataset

Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Thorsten Schaaf, Louis Agha-Mir-Salim, Jon Barrenetxea, Oliver Kumpf, Severin Kohler, Elias Grünewald, Johanna Nothacker, Christof von Kalle, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

Journal of Medical Systems2026

Calibration of Self-Reported Confidence and Accuracy of Large Language Models in Medical Question Answering

Sebastian Boie, Florian Reis, Nicolas Frey, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer

Journal DOI

Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics2026

Cloud-Native Real-Time Analytics of Clinical Wearable Data: A FHIR-Aligned Platform Architecture

Elias Grünewald, Louis Agha-Mir-Salim, Lina Mosch, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

Biomarkers2026

Digital biomarkers in non-communicable diseases

Louis Agha-Mir-Salim, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer, Katarina Braune

Journal DOI

Medical Informatics Europe2026

Extracting Clinical Recommendations from Oncology Guidelines: An Exploratory Comparison of Automated Approaches

Maurice Walny, Sebastian Boie, Stefan Haufe, Felix Balzer, Elias Grünewald

Conference DOI

European Journal of Heart Failure2026

FDG PET-CT Uncovers Cardiac Sarcoidosis When CMR Is Inconclusive: The Impact of Multimodal Imaging

Michele Baldini, Gabriele Paci, Giulia Metzger, Gamze Satilmis, Phillip Suwalski, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer, Alberto Margonato, Sebastian Kelle, Christian Furth, Ulf Landmesser, Bettina Heidecker

Abstract DOI

Medical Informatics Europe2026

Integration and Harmonization of Multi-Source Obstetric Data Using Rule-Based NLP for Fetomaternal Risk Modelling

Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Barbara Tabernig, Julia Sommer, René Schmiedler, Louisa Sommer, Ingrid Sonnabend, Christiana Ernst, Florian Recker, Silke Wegener, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

Medical Informatics Europe2026

Interpretable Feature Extraction from Clinical Notes for Sepsis Prediction: Comparing Rule-Based, LLM, and Hybrid Approaches

Nicolas Frey, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Lily Voge, Loreen Ruhm, Jasper Wagnitz, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Elias Grünewald, Johanna Nothacker, Christof von Kalle, Oliver Kumpf, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH)2026

LLM-Assisted Clinical Data Harmonization: Combining Automated ETL Generation with Semantic Vocabulary Mapping for OMOP CDM

Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Martin Vogel, Philipp Jacob, Severin Kohler, Louis Agha-Mir-Salim, Loreen Ruhm, Christof von Kalle, Elias Grünewald, Oliver Kumpf, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

Journal of Perinatal Medicine2026

Midwives' Perspectives on Risk Classification in the German Maternity Record (Mutterpass): An Exploratory Survey

Charlotte K. Metz, Barbara Tabernig, Julia Sommer, Ingrid Sonnabend, Waleed Alshamandi, Eva Jansen, Stephanie Roll, Louisa Sommer, Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer, Christiana Ernst, Florian Recker, Silke Wegener

Journal DOI

Frontiers in Medicine2026

Multimodal data for predictive medicine: algorithmic fusion of clinical data in anesthesiology and intensive care

Sebastian Boie, Niklas Giesa, Maria Sekutowicz, Rustam Zhumagambetov, Stefan Haufe, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer

Journal DOI

Sustainable Computing Lab, Vienna University of Economics and Business2026

Open Letter from Academics in Europe to EU Policy Makers: Build the EU's Rights-First Digital Infrastructure

Soheil Human, Arianna Rossi, Frank Pallas, Harshvardhan Pandit, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Irene Kamara, Meiko Jensen, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Midas Nouwens, Matthias C. Kettemann, Elias Grünewald, Isabel Wagner, Heleen Janssen, Gianclaudio Malgieri, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, et al.

Open letter

Medical Informatics Europe2026

Real-time Anonymization and Data Minimization of Vital Signs for Clinical Decision Support Systems and Analytics

Elias Grünewald, Louis Loechel, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

71st Annual Conference of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)2026

Reliability of uncertainty estimates under domain shift

Nicolas Frey, Matthias Schulte-Althoff, Niklas Giesa, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer, Sebastian Boie

Abstract

Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie2026

Revisiting Risk Classification in the German Maternity Record: First Results from the FeMaR Study

Julia Sommer, Eva Jansen, Stephanie Roll, Barbara Tabernig, Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Kerstin Rubarth, Katarina Braune, Felix Balzer, Louisa Sommer, Tanja Groten, Brigitte Strizek, Ulrich Gembruch, Thomas Reinhold, Udo Schneider, Florian Recker, Silke Wegener

Journal DOI

25. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)2026

Sepsis früher erkennen durch Auswertung klinischer Dokumentation mit Large Language Modellen

Nicolas Frey, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Lily Voge, Jasper Wagnitz, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Elias Grünewald, Christof von Kalle, Loreen Ruhm, Felix Balzer, Oliver Kumpf

Abstract

Medical Informatics Europe2026

Towards Real-Time Decision Support with LIVIA: Live-Streaming Infrastructure for Vital Sign Inference and Analytics

René Schmiedler, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

25. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung (DKVF)2026

Variabilität der automatisierten Sepsiserkennung in klinischen Routinedaten: Ein systematischer Review methodischer Implementierungsentscheidungen

Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, René Schmiedler, Johannes von Stoephasius, Camille Zhang, Luis Kronfli, Nicolas Frey, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Jacques Ehret, Johanna Nothacker, Christof von Kalle, Severin Kohler, Elias Grünewald, Andreas Edel, Oliver Kumpf, Jon Barrenetxea, Felix Balzer

Abstract

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)2026

Variability in Automated Sepsis Case Detection: A Systematic Analysis of Implementation Methods in Clinical Data Repositories

Journal DOI

71st Annual Conference of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)2026

Wavelet-based analysis of cardiovascular oscillatory dynamics and potential confounding factors in critically ill patients: the influence of demographics and medications

Jayanth Sreekanth, Eduardo Salgado, Andreas Edel, Alawi Luetz, Lilian J. Engelhardt, Henry Orlovsky, Elias Grünewald, Sophie Piper, Claudia Spies, Felix Balzer, Sebastian Boie

Abstract

New England Journal of Medicine AI2026

A Foundation Model for Intensive Care: Unlocking Generalization across Tasks and Domains at Scale

Manuel Burger, Daphné Chopard, Gregor Lichtner, Malte Londschien, Fedor Sergeev, Moritz Fuchs, Hugo Yèche, Rita Kuznetsova, Martin Faltys, Eike Gerdes, Polina Leshetkina, Micha Christ, Moritz Schanz, Nora Göbel, Peter Bühlmann, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer, Gunnar Rätsch

Under review, in revisionJournal

IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2026)2026

An Event-Driven Cloud-Native Wearable Analytics Framework for Real-Time Clinical Workloads

Elias Grünewald, Daniil Cherepko, Linus Gustafsson, Jakob Möhler, Oskar Rabe, Paul Robin Reichelt, Constantin Stahl, Lukasz Sztukiewicz, Louis Agha-Mir-Salim, Felix Balzer

IEEE BigData 2026AcceptedConference

arXiv preprint2026

Codebase-Memory: Tree-Sitter-Based Knowledge Graphs for LLM Code Exploration via MCP

Martin Vogel, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Severin Kohler, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer

Under reviewPreprint DOI

European Society of Cardiology2026

FDG PET-CT Unmasks Cardiac Sarcoidosis in CMR-Inconclusive Presentations: Impact on Management and Clinical Outcomes

Michele Baldini, Gabriele Paci, Giulia Metzger, Gamze Satilmis, Phillip Suwalski, Elias Grünewald, Alberto Margonato, Felix Balzer, Sebastian Kelle, Christian Furth, Ulf Landmesser, Bettina Heidecker

Under reviewPreprint

Journal of Perinatal Medicine2026

Mothers' Subjective Retrospective View of Previous Pregnancies and Risk Classification in the German Maternity Record (Mutterpass)

Charlotte K. Metz, Barbara Tabernig, Julia Sommer, Ingrid Sonnabend, Eva Jansen, Stephanie Roll, Louisa Sommer, Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Felix Balzer, Christiana Ernst, Florian Recker, Elisabeth von Tucher, Silke Wegener

AcceptedJournal DOI

medRxiv preprint2026

Wavelet Analysis Reveals Non-Stationary Cardiovascular Rhythms Associated with Delirium and Deep Sedation in ICU Patients

Jayanth Sreekanth, Eduardo Salgado, Andreas Edel, Elias Grünewald, Sophie Piper, Claudia Spies, Felix Balzer, Sebastian Boie

Under reviewPreprint DOI

2025

Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie2025

Analyse der fetomaternalen Risikofaktoren zur Erstellung eines Risikoscores für Schwangerschaftskomplikationen

Julia Sommer, Ingrid Sonnabend, Stephanie Roll, Thomas Reinhold, Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Kerstin Rubarth, Udo Schneider, Wolfgang Henrich, Felix Balzer, Florian Recker, Silke Wegener

Abstract DOI

Medical Informatics Europe2025

Coding Clinic: A Multidisciplinary Approach Supporting Early-Stage Medical Data Science Research

Elias Grünewald, Jon Barrenetxea, Niklas Giesa, Patrick Heeren, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Lina Mosch, Felix Balzer

Conference DOI

Clinical Nuclear Medicine Open2025

FDG PET-CT in the Setting of Inconclusive Cardiac MRI: Real-World Observations in Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Gabriele Paci, Giulia Metzger, Gamze Satilmis, Phillip Suwalski, Elias Grünewald, Michele Baldini, Alberto Margonato, Felix Balzer, Sebastian Kelle, Christian Furth, Ulf Landmesser, Bettina Heidecker

Journal DOI

ESICM LIVES, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental2025

Impact of a hypotension quality indicator on the incidence of intraoperative hypotension and postoperative acute kidney injury – preliminary results from a longitudinal quality improvement project

Nils Daum, Dario von Wedel, Henriette Hegermann, Oliver Hölsken, Patrick Wagner, Jan-Hendrik Hardenberg, Moritz Thiele, Noel Kronenberg, Jon Barrenetxea, Elias Grünewald, Tim Neumann, Philipp Enghard, Dmytro Khadzhynov, Christian Berger, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Felix Balzer, Sascha Treskatsch

Abstract

ESICM LIVES, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental2025

Implementation of a real-time dashboard for antimicrobial usage in the intensive care unit

Sophie Hollerbach, Dario von Wedel, Miriam Stegemann, Frieder Pfaefflin, Julian Felber, Moritz Thiele, Robert Kelm, Elias Grünewald, Mirja Mittermaier, Felix Balzer

Abstract

Medical Informatics Europe2025

Metadata Quality in Imaging Trials: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach

Alaa Bejaoui, Tim Kilgus, Heiko Tzschätzsch, Friederike Seyderhelm, Dagmar Krefting, Marc Dewey, Felix Balzer, Elias Grünewald

Conference DOI

Availability, Reliability and Security2025

Prink: ks-Anonymization for Streaming Data in Apache Flink

Philip Groneberg, Saskia Nuñez von Voigt, Thomas Janke, Louis Loechel, Karl Wolf, Elias Grünewald, Frank Pallas

Conference DOI

ESICM LIVES, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental2025

Rapid correction of severe hypernatremia is not associated with increased mortality

Moritz Thiele, Dario von Wedel, Finn Fassbender, Pedram Ramezani, Julian Felber, Nils Daum, Elias Grünewald, Sophie Piper, Maxime Fosset, Mirja Mittermaier, Sascha Treskatsch, Martin Witzenrath, Philipp Enghard, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Felix Balzer, Jan-Hendrik Hardenberg

Abstract

ESICM LIVES, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental2025

ReprodICU: Bridging ICU data silos for rapid, reproducible critical care research

Finn Fassbender, Dario von Wedel, Jan-Hendrik Hardenberg, Maxime Fosset, Joris Pensier, Moritz Thiele, Clara Weber, Pedram Ramezani, Amely Keles-Slovogt, Denys Shay, Elias Grünewald, Mirja Mittermaier, Stefan Haufe, Felix Balzer

Abstract

2024

PhD thesis, Technische Universität Berlin2024

Cloud Native Privacy Engineering for Transparency and Accountability

Elias Grünewald

Thesis DOI

Proceedings of the Business Process Management Forum2024

Extending Business Process Management for Regulatory Transparency

Jannis Kiesel, Elias Grünewald

Conference DOI

Web Engineering2024

Hook-in Privacy Techniques for gRPC-Based Microservice Communication

Louis Loechel, Siar-Remzi Akbayin, Elias Grünewald, Jannis Kiesel, Inga Strelnikova, Thomas Janke, Frank Pallas

Conference DOI

24. Kongress der Deutschen Interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin (DIVI)2024

Multimorbiditätscluster und Mortalität bei intensivpflichtigen perioperativen Patient:innen

Noel Kronenberg, Dario von Wedel, Nils Daum, Lina Mosch, Julian Felber, Moritz Thiele, Falk Meyer-Eschenbach, Jon Barrenetxea, Kerstin Rubarth, Elias Grünewald, Björn Weiß, Sascha Treskatsch, Felix Balzer

Abstract

Privacy Symposium 20242024

Towards Cross-Provider Analysis of Transparency Information for Data Protection

Elias Grünewald, Johannes M. Halkenhäußer, Nicola Leschke, Frank Pallas

Conference DOI

2023

2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroSPW)2023

A 'Human-in-the-Loop' Approach for Information Extraction from Privacy Policies under Data Scarcity

Michael Gebauer, Faraz Maschhur, Nicola Leschke, Elias Grünewald, Frank Pallas

Workshop DOI

Forum Privatheit 20232023

Advancing Transparency Enhancing Tools for Cloud-Native Architectures and Engineering

Elias Grünewald, Jannis Kiesel, Louis Loechel, Thomas Janke, Siar-Remzi Akbayin

Abstract DOI

Privacy Symposium 20232023

Enabling Versatile Privacy Interfaces Using Machine-Readable Transparency Information

Elias Grünewald, Johannes M. Halkenhäußer, Nicola Leschke, Johanna Washington, Cristina Paupini, Frank Pallas

Conference DOI

2023 IEEE 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)2023

Hawk: DevOps-driven Transparency and Accountability in Cloud Native Systems

Elias Grünewald, Jannis Kiesel, Siar-Remzi Akbayin, Frank Pallas

Conference DOI

Web Engineering2023

Streamlining Personal Data Access Requests: From Obstructive Procedures to Automated Web Workflows

Nicola Leschke, Florian Kirsten, Frank Pallas, Elias Grünewald

Conference DOI

2022

IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Blockchain 20222022

Advancing Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Through Verifiable Off-Chain Computations

Jonathan Heiss, Elias Grünewald, Stefan Tai, Nikolas Haimerl, Stefan Schulte

Conference DOI

Privacy and Identity Management. IFIP International Summer School, Esch-sur-Alzette.2022

Cloud Native Privacy Engineering through DevPrivOps

Elias Grünewald

Conference DOI

Web Engineering2022

Configurable Per-Query Data Minimization for Privacy-Compliant Web APIs

Frank Pallas, David Hartmann, Paul Heinrich, Josefine Kipke, Elias Grünewald

Conference DOI

Service-Oriented Computing2022

Scalable Discovery and Continuous Inventory of Personal Data at Rest in Cloud Native Systems

Elias Grünewald, Leonard Schurbert

Distinguished Paper AwardConference DOI

2021

Verbraucherdatenschutz – Technik und Regulation zur Unterstützung des Individuums2021

Datensouveränität für Verbraucher:innen: Technische Ansätze durch KI-basierte Transparenz und Auskunft im Kontext der DSGVO

Elias Grünewald, Frank Pallas

Chapter DOI

Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things2021

RedCASTLE: Practically Applicable kₛ-Anonymity for IoT Streaming Data at the Edge in Node-RED

Frank Pallas, Julian Legler, Niklas Amslgruber, Elias Grünewald

Workshop DOI

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency2021

TILT: A GDPR-Aligned Transparency Information Language and Toolkit for Practical Privacy Engineering

Elias Grünewald, Frank Pallas

Conference DOI

2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE)2021

TIRA: An OpenAPI Extension and Toolbox for GDPR Transparency in RESTful Architectures

Elias Grünewald, Paul Wille, Frank Pallas, Maria C. Borges, Max-R. Ulbricht

Workshop DOI

2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC)2019

MockFog: Emulating Fog Computing Infrastructure in the Cloud

Jonathan Hasenburg, Martin Grambow, Elias Grünewald, Sascha Huk, David Bermbach

Conference DOI