Hack4Surgery

BOSTER Hackathon | #Hack4Surgery

Let’s help to improve surgical decisions in the emergency room and save lives with machine learning!

Every day, doctors make critical decisions that can determine life and death. With your machine learning skills, you can help them make the right decisions faster and more accurately, thus actively influencing the lives of patients.

This is precisely the aim of the #Hack4Surgery hackathon organized by the Bonn Surgical Technology Center ¹(BOSTER) at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the Transfer Center enaCom² at the University of Bonn. The goal is to develop innovative solutions that improve the quality of treatment and the chances of survival for patients.

Over the course of a day, you will work on a specific challenge with the support of experts from BOSTER and B-IT³. You will develop prediction models based on real data from the UKB emergency room, for example to predict whether emergency surgery is needed for certain symptoms such as abdominal pain.

The hackathon offers a unique opportunity to work on real medical problems and make valuable contacts at the interface of medicine and modeling.

Who are we looking for?

Master's students and young researchers from the University of Bonn in the fields of machine learning or modeling, especially with an informatics or life science informatics background. Register as teams of 2-3 people! Please note, that each team member needs to register individually.

When and where?

The #Hack4Surgery will take place on Friday, June 6, 2025, all day at BOSTER at Bonner Bogen. The number of places is limited, so be quick to secure one. First come – first served! The registration deadline is May 30th!