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Henning Müller

Also known as Henning Mueller

Henning Müller is a medical informatics researcher in Switzerland who applies computer vision and machine learning to medical images and clinical records. Trained in medical informatics at Heidelberg, he completed a computer vision PhD at the University of Geneva in 2002 and initiated the ImageCLEF benchmark, which has run medical image tasks since 2004. His EU projects included Khresmoi, VISCERAL and ExaMode, and a 2022 npj Digital Medicine paper he coauthored trained pathology networks on labels drawn automatically from diagnostic reports. In 2022, he was named one of Switzerland's Digital Shapers for research in AI-supported personalized medicine. He is a full professor at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sierre, where he heads the eHealth unit, and has also been a professor at the University of Geneva's medical faculty since 2014.

Now at
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, University of Geneva and Swiss National Research Council
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Timeline

  1. 1998–2002

    A computer vision PhD in Geneva

    He studies medical informatics at the University of Heidelberg and then works at Daimler-Benz research in Portland, Oregon. From 1998 to 2002, he works on a PhD in computer vision at the University of Geneva, with a research stay at Monash University in Melbourne in 2001.

  2. 2002–2004

    Starting ImageCLEF's medical tasks

    He joins the medical informatics service at the University Hospital of Geneva in 2002. He initiates the ImageCLEF benchmark, which runs medical tasks from 2004 onward.

  3. 2007–2011

    Professor at HES-SO Valais-Wallis

    He becomes a full professor at HES-SO Valais in 2007, teaching business informatics in Sierre. In 2011, he takes charge of the school's eHealth unit.

  4. 2014–2016

    Geneva medicine and the Martinos Center

    In 2014, he also becomes a professor at the medical faculty of the University of Geneva. He spends a 2015–2016 sabbatical at the Martinos Center, part of Harvard Medical School in Boston, to focus on research.

  5. By 2019

    Khresmoi, VISCERAL and ExaMode

    He coordinates the Khresmoi EU project and serves as scientific coordinator of the VISCERAL EU project. By 2019, he is the coordinator of the ExaMode EU project.

  6. 2022

    Pathology AI without manual labels

    In July 2022, he coauthors an npj Digital Medicine paper with Niccolò Marini, Manfredo Atzori and others that extracts concepts from diagnostic reports and uses them as weak labels to train convolutional neural networks for histopathology diagnosis. The work comes out of EXAMODE, a European project with a budget of five million that he coordinates in Sierre with Atzori.

  7. 2022

    A Digital Shapers award

    He is named one of the Digital Shapers 2022, a national award from the digitalswitzerland Foundation, Bilanz, PME and the Handelszeitung. The jury honours him in the eMedics category for research in personalized medicine supported by artificial intelligence algorithms.

  8. As of October 2026

    Head of the eHealth unit

    Since early 2020, he is a member of the Swiss National Research Council. He is a full professor at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sierre and heads its eHealth unit.

Career

  1. Since 2020Swiss National Research CouncilMember
  2. Since 2014University of GenevaProfessor
  3. Since 2011HES-SO Valais-WallisHead
  4. Since 2007University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western SwitzerlandFull Professor
  5. 2015–2016Harvard Medical SchoolSabbatical
  6. From 2002University Hospital of Geneva
  7. 2001Monash UniversityResearch stay

Education

  1. 2002University of GenevaPhD
  2. Heidelberg UniversityMedical Informatics

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Geneva. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Geneva. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Geneva. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Harvard University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Henning Müller | HES-SO Valais-Wallis hevs.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Henning Müller - Science Valais science-valais.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Henning Müller - ESSIR 2019 essir2019.disco.unimib.it. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Unleashing the potential of digital pathology data by training computer-aided diagnosis models without human annotations | npj Digital Medicine nature.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Excellence rewarded: Henning Müller named Digital Shapers 2022 hevs.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Müller Henning - Professeur-e HES Ordinaire, Responsable de l'unité eHealth - HES-SO people.hes-so.ch. Checked 21 October 2026.