WisPerMed at ADO 2025

WisPerMed’s PhD candidates had a strong presence at the 25th ADO Skin Cancer Congress, hosted this year by Dermatology in Essen. In the poster sessions, Felix Wiegand (with Hendrik Damm) presented hackathon results on a unified search interface for genetic mutations that streamlines evidence retrieval across sources such as PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov. Helmut Becker showcased, in a Poster, a tool developed with Bahadir Eryilmaz that reduces administrative burden by automatically extracting text from external documents and presenting it in a structured format to save time in clinical routine. Kilian Elfert presented a poster reporting a systematic review of methodological approaches to software evaluation at the point of care. In the oral program, Henning Büns delivered the talk “Development of an AI prototype for automated summarization of clinical dashboard data at the point of care,” introducing and evaluating a system that extracts information from clinical dashboards and generates structured summaries to support medical decision-making. In the ePoster track, Tabea Pakull shared a preliminary study on using open-source LLMs to simplify Molecular Tumor Board protocols—showing notable gains in automatic readability metrics while, through manual error analysis, highlighting limits of LLM-based evaluation and the continued need for clinician oversight. Beyond presenting, Hendrik Damm, Noëlle Bender, Enis Dogru, Kilian Elfert, and Felix Wiegand took the opportunity to collect eye-tracking data for their study on physicians’ decision-making when selecting publications with AI assistance. Altogether, the congress underscored WisPerMed’s commitment to practical, clinician-centered AI that improves information flow and reduces workload at the point of care.