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

Joint EANM/EANO/RANO/SNMMI practice guideline/procedure standard for PET imaging of brain metastases: version 1.0

Antoine Verger, Nelleke Tolboom, Francesco Cicone, Susan M. Chang, Julia Furtner, Norbert Galldiks, Jens Gempt, Eric Guedj, Raymond Y. Huang, Derek R. Johnson, Ian Law, Emilie Le Rhun, Susan C. Short, M. J. Van den Bent, Donatienne Van Weehaeghe, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Patrick Y. Wen, Nathalie L. Albert & Matthias Preusser

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2025).

Received 21 October 2024, Accepted 15 December 2024, Published 07 January 2025

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-024-07038-5

Results of a patient-level pooled analysis of three studies of trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-positive breast cancer with active brain metastasis

R. Bartsch, J.M. Pérez-García, J. Furtner, A.S. Berghoff, M. Marhold, A.M. Starzer, M. Hughes, S. Kabraji, S. Sammons, C. Anders, R.K. Murthy, A.E.D. Van Swearingen, A. Pereslete, M. Gion, M. Vaz Batista, S. Braga, P.B.C. Pinto, M. Sampayo-Cordero, A. Llombart-Cussac, M. Preusser, J. Cortés, N.U. Lin

ESMO Open, Volume 10, Issue 1, 104092

Detection of H3F3A K27M or BRAF V600E in liquid biopsies of brain tumor patients as diagnostic and monitoring biomarker: impact of tumor localization and sampling method

Sibylle Madlener, Natalia Stepien, Daniel Senfter, Lisa Mayr, Anna Laemmerer, Cora Hedrich, Alicia Baumgartner, Daniela Lötsch-Gojo, Jaroslav Sterba, Petra Pokorna, Barbara Kiesel, Georg Widhalm, Franziska Eckert, Matthias Preusser, Karl Rössler, Amedeo Azizi, Andreas Peyrl, Thomas Czech, Christine Haberler, Irene Slavc, Gregor Kasprian, Christian Dorfer, Julia Furtner, Johannes Gojo

Acta Neuropathol. 2025 Jan 3;149(1):5.

doi: 10.1007/s00401-024-02842-7.

PMID: 39751690; PMCID: PMC11698890.

Clinical application of machine-based deep learning in patients with radiologically presumed adult-type diffuse glioma grades 2 or 3

Tomás Gómez Vecchio , Alice Neimantaite , ErikThurin , Julia Furtner , Ole Solheim , Johan Pallud , Mitchel Berger, GeorgWidhalm , Jiri Bartek , Ida Häggström , Irene Y.H. Gu , and Asgeir Store Jakola

Neuro-Oncology Advances, Volume 6, Issue 1, January-December 2024, vdae192,

Published: 10 November 2024

https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdae192

Expert consensus on the prevention of brain metastases in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer

Volkmar Müller, Thomas Bachelot, Giuseppe Curigliano, Evandro de Azambuja , Julia Furtner, Jens Gempt, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa, Katarzyna J. Jerzak, Emilie Le Rhun, Carlo Palmieri, Gabriella Pravettoni, Cristina Saura, Rupert Bartsch

ELSEVIER Cancer Treatment Reviews 132 (2025) 102860

Received 14 August 2024, Revised 11 November 2024, Accepted 12 November 2024, Available online 17 November 2024, Version of Record 28 November 2024.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctrv.2024.102860

Inequalities in access to neuro-oncology supportive care and rehabilitation: A survey of healthcare professionals’ perspectives

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

https://doi.org/10.1093/nop/npae023

Published: 15 March 2024

Joint EANM/EANO/RANO/SNMMI practice guideline/procedure standards for diagnostics and therapy (theranostics) of meningiomas using radiolabeled somatostatin receptor ligands: version 1.0

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)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-024-06783-x

Final outcome analysis from the phase II TUXEDO-1 trial of trastuzumab-deruxtecan in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with active brain metastases

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

https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noae123

Published: 04 July 2024

7 Tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging predicting IDH status and glioma grading

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

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40644-024-00704-9

A Comparison of 7 Tesla MR Spectroscopic Imaging and 3 Tesla MR Fingerprinting for Tumor Localization in Glioma Patients” im Journal Cancers

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

https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16050943

Published: 26 February 2024

3D volume growth rate evaluation in the EORTC-BTG-1320 clinical trial for recurrent WHO grade 2 and 3 meningiomas

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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noae037

Leptomeningeal metastasis from solid tumours: EANO–ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esmoop.2023.101624

The potential of amino acid PET imaging for prediction and monitoring of vorasidenib response in IDH-mutant gliomas

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

Neuro-Oncology, noad240, Published: 09 December 2023

https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noad240

Radiomic features define risk and are linked to DNA methylation attributes in primary CNS lymphoma

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

https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdad136 

Reliability of signal intensity in the basal ganglia on non-contrast T1-weighted MR scans after repetitive application of a gadolinium-based contrast agent in pediatric neuro-oncology patients

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

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2023.111179

Segmentation of glioblastoma in early postoperative multi-modal MRI with deep neural networks

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)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45456-x

A framework for standardised tissue sampling and processing during resection of diffuse intracranial glioma: joint recommendations from four RANO groups

Philipp Karschnia, Marion Smits, Guido Reifenberger, Emilie Le Rhun, Benjamin M Ellingson, Norbert Galldiks, Julia Furtner et al.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00453-9

Tha Lancet Oncology

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

Craniofacial musculature assessment: A novel technique for predicting stroke patient outcomes

Furtner J.

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

Rare Neuronal, Glial and Glioneuronal Tumours in Adults

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

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

Advanced MR Techniques for Preoperative Glioma Characterization: Part 1

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.

Clinical applicability of miR517a detection in liquid biopsies of ETMR patients

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.

Proof-of-Concept for Liquid Biopsy Disease Monitoring of MYC-Amplified Group 3 Medulloblastoma by Droplet Digital PCR

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.

Advanced MR Techniques for Preoperative Glioma Characterization: Part 2

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

Arterial Spin-Labeling Assessment of Normalized Vascular Intratumoral Signal Intensity as a Predictor of Histologic Grade of Astrocytic Neoplasms.

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