Melika Qahqaie

Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung)

Research associates

Martensstraße 3
91058 Erlangen

Education

Since 12/2024:
Ph.D. Researcher at Pattern Recognition Lab and Siemens Healthineers
Topic: Automated Longitudinal Assessment of Tumor Burden
03/2021 – 10 / 2024 :
M.Sc. in Medical Engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Master Thesis: Towards Automatic Temporal Analysis of Breast Cancer Metastases from longitudinal CT data
09/2017 – 02 / 2021 :
B.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering at FH Aachen
Bachelor Thesis: Development of a Demonstration Model of Intracranial Aneurysms Based on Silicone Casting

Tasharofi F., Fan F., Qahqaie M., Thies M., Maier A.:
FIND-Net – Fourier-Integrated Network with Dictionary Kernels for Metal Artifact Reduction
28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 (Daejeon, KOR, September 23, 2025 - September 27, 2025)
In: James C. Gee, Jaesung Hong, Carole H. Sudre, Polina Golland, Jinah Park, Daniel C. Alexander, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, Archana Venkataraman, Jong Hyo Kim (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2026
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05169-1_19
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Qahqaie M., Neumann D., Heimann T., Maier A., Zimmer VA.:
Unbalanced optimal transport for robust longitudinal lesion evolution with registration-aware and appearance-guided priors
(2026)
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI61048.2026.11516053
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Title	Type	Student	Period	Status
Evaluate LORA finetuning for detection guided segmentation in CT images	MA thesis	Robaitul Islam	Jan 2026 – Jul 2026	finished

Academic CV