Sleep in Focus: ZMI Dresden's Research at SleepEurope2026

Recently, the 28th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society – Sleep Europe 2026 – took place in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Our Head of Research Division Dr.-Ing. Miriam Goldammer and our research associate Franz Ehrlich presented their extensive research findings to the international expert community in a total of four posters.

The papers provide exciting insights into the results of our sleep research projects SomnoLink and ACRIBiS – Personalised Risk Assessments for Cardiovascular Diseases, which are funded as part of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII).

They demonstrate how innovative approaches in medical informatics can contribute to further advancing sleep research and sleep medicine and unlocking new potential for data-driven research.

• SleePyPhases: A workflow framework for sleep data harmonization, analysis and machine learning
• Beyond Accuracy: Methodological and Clinical Requirements for ML Algorithms in Sleep Medicine
• Towards Interpretable Sleep Apnea Severity Detection from Raw ECG: Multi-Class Event Detection and AHI Prediction on a Hold-Out Dataset
• Investigating Sex Differences in Sleep Staging from the Electrocardiogram

In addition to presenting their own research findings, the congress provided a great opportunity to exchange ideas with international experts, gain new insights and establish valuable contacts within the Sleep Research community.

A big thank you to Miriam and Franz for presenting their research and sharing these exciting insights!