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MD, Research Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, USA
Dr. Fiona R. Kolbinger is a Research Assistant Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at Indiana University. Prior to this, she was a surgical Clinician Scientist at Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
Dr. Kolbinger completed her medical training at the University of Heidelberg School of Medicine in Germany and obtained her doctorate from the German Cancer Research Center. She then pursued a surgical residency at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and conducted research in the field of Surgical Data Science at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden, Germany.
Dr. Kolbinger's research focuses on computational approaches to extract actionable knowledge from clinical datasets in surgery. Her efforts aim to translate technological innovations, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), into clinically valuable tools for medical decision support and surgical training. Specifically, her work has centered on AI-based intraoperative guidance for surgical quality control, automated identification of anatomical risk and target structures, and preoperative complication risk and outcome stratification in patients undergoing major surgery. Her overarching goal is to drive the clinical translation of AI-based tools in surgery and ultimately improve patient outcomes through more tailored interdisciplinary treatment approaches.
Selected publications from PubMed
PIVOTS: Aligning unseen structures using preoperative to intraoperative volume-to-surface registration for liver navigation.
Liu P, Güttner B, Su Y, Li C, Xu J, Liu M, Min Z, Zhylka A, Smit J, Olthof K, Fusaglia M, Apolle R, Miederer M, Frohneberg L, Riediger C, Weitz J, Kolbinger F, Speidel S, Pfeiffer M
Med Image Anal. 2026 Sep;113:104139 doi: 10.1016/j.media.2026.104139.
Early intervention with secukinumab prevents epigenetic scar development in new-onset psoriasis: STEPIn mechanistic substudy results.
Gudjonsson JE, Bier K, Gaulis S, Tsoi LC, Cardner M, Sarkar MK, Coon A, Cole C, Kärner J, Fernandez A, Peters T, Eidsmo L, Iversen L, Jagiello P, Ferrero E, Kolbinger F, Lohmann F, Conrad C
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2026 Sep;158(3):857-871 doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2026.04.028.
Reply to: Surgical scene understanding and the emerging challenge of independent validation in an industry-led AI ecosystem.
Carstens M, Vasisht S, Zhang Z, Barbur I, Reinke A, Maier-Hein L, Hashimoto DA, Kolbinger FR
NPJ Digit Med. 2026 Aug 10;9(1) doi: 10.1038/s41746-026-03028-z.
Safety and security of large language models in healthcare.
Clusmann J, Freyer O, Ostermann M, Ferber D, Ghaffari Laleh N, Hilgers L, Kolbinger FR, Schneider CV, Downing A, Wekenborg MK, Gilbert S, Foersch S, Truhn D, Wiest IC, Kather JN
Nature. 2026 Aug;656(8128):577-589 doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10687-1.
EU's fragmented early-stage medical device study requirements need reform.
Qadir MI, Wober J, McDonnell A, Russo J, Melvin T, Gilbert S, Kolbinger FR
Nat Biomed Eng. 2026 Sep;10(9):1798-1801 doi: 10.1038/s41551-026-01750-3.
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