Simon Mueller

*Traversing the path of brownian motion since 1995*

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University Hospital Bonn

Dept. of Ophthalmology

Bonn, Germany

I finished my Master in Computer Science with a focus on Life Science Informatics and Computer Vision in Bonn in 2021 and my studies in Human Medicine at Maastricht University in 2026.

Jointly supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schultz (Visualization and Medical Image Analysis Group, Department of Computer Science II) and PD Dr. Maximilian Wintergerst (Department of Ophthalmology, University Eye Clinic Bonn), I’m pursuing a PhD with the Working Group Wintergerst on “Learning what is relevant: Attention-based analysis of high-resolution ophthalmic images and videos” — researching medical applications of image and video analysis for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, including smartphone-assisted Diabetic Retinopathy detection and Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) analysis.

Previously, I have worked in various projects for IBM Germany, Fraunhofer Institutes and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as a software engineer. In the past I also worked as a tutor for software engineering, programming in various languages, machine learning and computer visualizations.

Research Interests

  • Deep learning for medical image and video analysis
  • Attention-based MIL and transformer architectures for ophthalmic imaging
  • Surgical video analysis
  • Translating computer vision research into clinical diagnosis, prognosis and treatment tools

I’m always happy to hear from prospective students or potential collaborators, feel free to reach out.

selected publications

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    Phase recognition in manual Small-Incision cataract surgery with MS-TCN++ on the novel SICS-105 dataset
    Simon Mueller , Bhuvan Sachdeva , Singri Niharika Prasad , and 7 more authors
    Scientific Reports, May 2025
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    Artificial Intelligence in Cataract Surgery: A Systematic Review
    Simon Müller, Mohit Jain , Bhuvan Sachdeva , and 6 more authors
    Translational Vision Science & Technology, Apr 2024
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    Multiple instance learning detects peripheral arterial disease from high-resolution color fundus photography
    Simon Mueller , Maximilian WM Wintergerst , Peyman Falahat , and 5 more authors
    Scientific Reports, Apr 2022
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    Automated detection of diabetic retinopathy from smartphone fundus videos
    Simon Mueller , Snezhana Karpova , Maximilian WM Wintergerst , and 4 more authors
    In Ophthalmic Medical Image Analysis: 7th International Workshop, OMIA 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru, October 8, 2020, Proceedings 7 , Apr 2020
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