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Univ.-Prof.in Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in med. Julia Furtner-Srajer, PhD MBA

Deputy Head of MIAAI (Medical Image Analysis & Artificial Intelligence)


Professor Julia Furtner-Srajer is Professor of Radiology at the Danube Private University and Deputy Head of the MIAAI.


She received her medical training at the Medical University of Vienna, completing a PhD thesis on the Clinical Neurosciences doctoral programme, and was formerly head of the intraoperative MRI, the neuroradiological PET/MRI and the neurooncological imaging research group at the Medical University of Vienna.


Professor Furtner-Srajer is board member of several national and international societies, including the ÖGNR (Austrian Neuroradiology Society), the Brain Tumour Group and Imaging Group of the EORTC (European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer), EURACAN (European Reference Network on Rare Adult Cancers), the ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology) Brain Tumour Group and COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).


She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and serves as Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Radiology. Her research focuses on advanced neuro-oncology imaging and imaging biomarkers.




Key publications


Florien Boele, Lena Rosenlund, Sara Nordentoft, Sara Melhuish, Emma Nicklin, Isabelle Rydén, Aoife Williamson, Marike Donders-Kamphuis, Matthias Preusser, Emilie Le Rhun, Barbara Kiesel, Giuseppe Minniti, Julia Furtner, Linda Dirven, Martin Taphoorn, Norbert Galldiks, Roberta Rudà, Anthony Chalmers, Susan C Short, Karin Piil

Neuro-Oncology Practice, Volume 11, Issue 4, August 2024, Pages 484–493

Published: 15 March 2024



Nathalie L. Albert, Matthias Preusser, Tatjana Traub-Weidinger, Nelleke Tolboom, Ian Law, Joshua D. Palmer, Eric Guedj, Julia Furtner, Francesco Fraioli, Raymond Y. Huang, Derek R. Johnson, Christophe M. Deroose, Ken Herrmann, Michael Vogelbaum, Susan Chang, Joerg-Christian Tonn, Michael Weller, Patrick Y. Wen, Martin J. van den Bent, Antoine Verger, Jana Ivanidze & Norbert Galldiks

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2024)


Rupert Bartsch, Anna Sophie Berghoff, Julia Furtner, Maximilian Marhold, Elisabeth Sophie Bergen, Sophie Roider-Schur, Maximilian Johannes Mair, Angelika Martina Starzer, Heidrun Forstner, Beate Rottenmanner,

Marie-Bernadette Aretin, Karin Dieckmann, Zsuzsanna Bago-Horvath, Helmuth Haslacher, Georg Widhalm, Aysegül Ilhan-Mutlu, Christoph Minichsdorfer, Thorsten Fuereder, Thomas Szekeres, Leopold Oehler, Birgit Gruenberger, Georg Pfeiler, Christian Singer, Ansgar Weltermann, Luzia Berchtold, Matthias Preusser

Neuro-Oncology, noae123

Published: 04 July 2024


Cornelius Cadrien, Sukrit Sharma, Philipp Lazen, Roxane Licandro, Julia Furtner, Alexandra Lipka, Eva Niess, Lukas Hingerl, Stanislav Motyka, Stephan Gruber, Bernhard Strasser, Barbara Kiesel, Mario Mischkulnig, Matthias Preusser, Thomas Roetzer-Pejrimovsky, Adelheid Wöhrer, Michael Weber, Christian Dorfer, Siegfried Trattnig, Karl Rössler, Wolfgang Bogner, Georg Widhalm & Gilbert Hangel

Cancer Imaging 24, 67 (2024). Published 27 May 2024


Philipp Lazen, Pedro Lima Cardoso, Sukrit Sharma, Cornelius Cadrien, Thomas Roetzer-Pejrimovsky, Julia Furtner, Bernhard Strasser, Lukas Hingerl, Alexandra Lipka, Matthias Preusser, Wolfgang Marik, Wolfgang Bogner, Georg Widhalm, Karl Rössler, Siegfried Trattnig, Gilbert Hangel

Cancers 2024, 16(5), 943

Published: 26 February 2024



E Tabouret, J Furtner, T Graillon, A Silvani, E Le Rhun, R Soffietti, G Lombardi, J M Sepúlveda-Sánchez, P Brandal, M Bendszus, V Golfinopoulos, T Gorlia, M Weller, F Sahm, W Wick, M Preusser

Neuro-Oncology, noae037, Published: 07 March 2024


E. Le Rhun, M. Weller, M. van den Bent, D. Brandsma, J. Furtner, R. Rudà, D. Schadendorf, J. Seoane, J.-C. Tonn, P.Wesseling, W. Wick, G. Minniti, S. Peters, G. Curigliano, M. Preusser on behalf of theEANO Guidelines Committee and ESMO Guidelines Committee

ESMO Open Published: September 19, 2023



Nathalie L Albert, Julia Furtner, Martin J van den Bent, Matthias Preusser

Neuro-Oncology, noad240, Published: 09 December 2023



Karl-Heinz Nenning, Johanna Gesperger, Julia Furtner, Amelie Nemc, Thomas Roetzer-Pejrimovsky, Seung-Won Choi, Christian Mitter, Stefan L. Leber, Johannes Hofmanninger, Johanna Klughammer, Bekir Ergüner, Marlies Bauer, Martina Brada, Kyuha Chong, Tanisa Brandner-Kokalj, Christian F. Freyschlag, Astrid Grams, Johannes Haybaeck, Selma Hoenigschnabl, Markus Hoffermann, Sarah Iglseder, Barbara Kiesel, Melitta Kitzwoegerer, Waltraud Kleindienst, Franz Marhold, Patrizia Moser, Stefan Oberndorfer, Daniel Pinggera, Florian Scheichel, Camillo Sherif, Guenther Stockhammer, Martin Stultschnig, Claudius Thomé, Johannes Trenkler, Tadeja Urbanic-Purkart, Serge Weis, Georg Widhalm, Franz Wuertz, Matthias Preusser , Bernhard Baumann, Ingrid Simonitsch-Klupp, Do-Hyun Nam, Christoph Bock†, Georg Langs† and Adelheid Woehrer

Neuro-Oncology Advances 5(1), 1–12, 2023

Advance Access date 18 October 2023


Azadeh Hojreh, Amra Mulabdic, Julia Furtner, Christoph Kral , Ivana Pogledic, Andreas Peyrl , Pascal Andreas Thomas Baltzer

European Journal of Radiology 169 (2023) 111179

Received 4 September 2023; Accepted 29 October 2023, Available online 31 October 2023



Ragnhild Holden Helland, Alexandros Ferles, André Pedersen, Ivar Kommers, HilkoArdon, Frederik Barkhof, Lorenzo Bello, Mitchel S. Berger , Tora Dunås, Marco Conti Nibali, Julia Furtner, Shawn Hervey‑Jumper , Albert J. S. Idema, Barbara Kiesel, Rishi NandoeTewari, Emmanuel Mandonnet, Domenique M. J. Müller, PierreA. Robe, Marco Rossi, Lisa M. Sagberg, Tommaso Sciortino, Tom Aalders, Michiel Wagemakers, GeorgWidhalm, MarnixG. Witte, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, Paulina L. Majewska, Asgeir S. Jakola, Ole Solheim, Philip C. De Witt Hamer, Ingerid Reinertsen, Roelant S. Eijgelaar & David Bouget

Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 18897 (2023)


Tha Lancet Oncology

Available online 31 October 2023, Version of Record 31 October 2023.



Furtner J.

Journal European Journal of Radiology 2023, 167, 111024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2023.111024


Crainic N, Furtner J, Pallud J, Bielle F, Lombardi F, Rudà R, Idbaih A

Cancers (Basel) 2023;15(4):1120. doi: 10.3390/cancers15041120



Hirschler L, Sollmann N, Schmitz-Abecassis B, Pinto J, Arzanforoosh F, Barkhof F, Booth T, Calvo-Imirizaldu M, Cassia G, Chmelik M, Clement P, Ercan E, Fernández-Seara MA, Furtner J, Fuster-Garcia E, Grech-Sollars M, Guven NT, Hatay GH, Karami G, Keil VC, Kim M, Koekkoek JAF, Kukran S, Mancini L, Nechifor RE, Özcan A, Ozturk-Isik E, Piskin S, Schmainda K, Svensson SF, Tseng CH, Unnikrishnan S, Vos F, Warnert E, Zhao MY, Jancalek R, Nunes T, Emblem KE, Smits M, Petr J, Hangel G


J Magn Reson Imaging 2023;57(6):1655-1675.

doi: 10.1002/jmri.28662.


Madlener S, Furtner J, Stepien N, Senfter D, Mayr L, Zeyda M, Gramss L, Aistleitner B, Spiegl-Kreinecker S, Rivelles E, Dorfer C, Rössler K, Czech T, Azizi AA, Peyrl A, Lötsch-Gojo D, Müllauer L, Haberler C, Slavc I, Gojo J


Clinical applicability of miR517a detection in liquid biopsies of ETMR patients. Acta Neuropathol 2023;145(6):843-846.

doi: 10.1007/s00401-023-02567-z.


Stepien N, Senfter D, Furtner J, Haberler C, Dorfer C, Czech T, Lötsch-Gojo D, Mayr L, Hedrich C, Baumgartner A, Aliotti-Lippolis M, Schned H, Holler J, Bruckner K, Slavc I, Azizi AA, Peyrl A, Müllauer L, Madlener S, Gojo J


Cancers (Basel) 2023;15(9):2525.

doi: 10.3390/cancers15092525.


J Magn Reson Imaging 2023;57(6):1655-1675

doi: 10.1002/jmri.28662


The DNA methylation landscape of glioblastoma disease progression shows extensive heterogeneity in time and space.

Klughammer J, Kiesel B, Roetzer T, Fortelny N, Nemc A, Nenning KH, Furtner J, Sheffield NC, Datlinger P, Peter N, Nowosielski M, Augustin M, Mischkulnig M, Ströbel T, Alpar D, Ergüner B, Senekowitsch M, Moser P, Freyschlag CF, Kerschbaumer J, Thomé C, Grams AE, Stockhammer G, Kitzwoegerer M, Oberndorfer S, Marhold F, Weis S, Trenkler J, Buchroithner J, Pichler J, Haybaeck J, Krassnig S, Mahdy Ali K, von Campe G, Payer F, Sherif C, Preiser J, Hauser T, Winkler PA, Kleindienst W, Würtz F, Brandner-Kokalj T, Stultschnig M, Schweiger S, Dieckmann K, Preusser M, Langs G, Baumann B, Knosp E, Widhalm G, Marosi C, Hainfellner JA, Woehrer A, Bock C.


Nature Medicine 2018 Oct;24(10):1611-1624; DOI: 10.1038/s41591-018-0156


Temporal muscle Thickness as a Prognostic Marker in Patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma: translational imaging analysis of the CENTRIC EORTC 26071-22072 and CORE trials

Furtner J, Weller M, Weber M, Gorlia T, Nabors B, Reardon DA, Tonn JC, Stupp R, Preusser M, EORTC Brain Tumor Group


Clinical Cancer Research 2022 Jan;1;28(1):129-136; DOI:10.1158/1078-0421.CCR-21-1987


Distributed changes of the functional connectome in patients with glioblastoma

Furtner J, Nenning KH, Kiesel B, Schwartz E, Roetzer T, Fortelny N, Bock C, Grisold A, Marko M, Leutmezer F, Liu H, Golland P, Stoecklein S, Hainfellner JA, Kasprian G, Prayer D, Marosi C, Widhalm G, Woehrer A, Langs G.


Scientific Report 2020 Oct 27;10(1):18312; DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-74726-1


Robust Deep Learning-based segmentation of glioblastoma on routine clinical MRI scans using Sparsified training

Eijgelaar RS, Visser M, Müller DMJ, Barkhof F, Vrenken H, van Herk M, Bello L, Nibali MC, Rossi M, Sciorino T,Berger MS, Hervey-Jumper S, Kiesel B, Widhalm G, Furtner J, Rober PAJT, Mandonnet E, De Witt Hamer PC, De Munck JC, Witte MG


Radiology Artificial Intelligence 2020 Sep 30;2(5):e190103; DOI: 10.1148/ryai.2020190103


Multi-Habitat radiomics Unravels Distinct Phenotypic Subtypes of Glioblastoma with clinical and genomic significance

Choi SW, Cho HH, Koo H, Cho KR, Nenning KH, Langs G, Furtner J, Baumann B, Woehrer A, Cho HJ, Sa JK, Kong DS, Seol HJ, Lee JI, Man DH, Park H


Cancers 2020 Jun 27;12(7):1707; DOI: 10.3390/cancers12071707


Kinetics of tumor size and peritumoral brain edema before, during, and after systemic therapy in recurrent WHO II or III meningioma

Furtner J, Schöpf V, Seystahl K, Le Rhun E, Rudà R, Roelcke U, Koeppen S, Berghoff AS, Marosi C, Clement P, Faedi M, Watts C, Wick W, Soffietti R, Weller M, Preusser M.


Neuro Oncology 2016 Mar;18(3):401-7. DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nov183


Furtner J, Schöpf V, Schewzow K, Kasprian G, Weber M, Woitek R, Asenbaum U, Preusser M, Marosi C, Hainfellner JA, Widhalm G, Wolfsberger S, Prayer D.


AJNR American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2014 Mar;35(3):482-9; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3705

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