Paediatric Digital Health Data Analysis

Research

Dr Özkan Elsen’s research focuses on computational models that integrate medical images, clinical data and additional modalities such as physiological signals to support clinicians in the diagnosis and management of paediatric diseases. Specifically, she aims to tackle the main challenges affecting the performance of machine learning models, including data scarcity, variability across datasets from different sources and algorithmic bias. By integrating multi-modal datasets and drawing inspiration from human behaviour, she will develop interpretable artificial intelligence-driven healthcare solutions that will contribute to advance precision medicine for children and adolescents.

Prof Dr Ece Özken Elsen

Dr Ece Özkan is a computational engineer and data scientist based at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Basel, where she developing machine learning methods that are easy to interpret, fair, and generalizable for paediatric care. In 2018, she obtained her PhD in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich, where she continued her research activities as postdoctoral fellow before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to her academic experience, Dr Özkan has also worked as data & analytics consultant for companies from the private sector.

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Prof Dr Ece Özken Elsen

BRCCH Professor in Paediatric Digital Health Analysis

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Paul Fischer

PhD students & software engineers

  • Simon Böhi
  • Max Krähenmann
  • Sergio Munoz-Gonzalez

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Publications

2025

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2020

Paediatric Digital Health Data Analysis Projects

NEO-SEPSIS: Early Detection of Neonatal Sepsis Using Clinical and Physiological Data

GDM-OMICS: Multicenter Gestational Diabetes Study with Integrated Clinical and Proteomic Signatures

MULTIMODAL-HEALTH: Generalizable AI Models for Pediatric and Adult Clinical Applications

Prof Dr Ece Özken Elsen develops computational models to support clinicians in the diagnosis and management of paediatric diseases. Specifically, she integrates medical images and clinical data whils tackling the main challenges affecting the performance of machine learning models to create healthcare solutions for children and adolescents.

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