René H. Tolba

Full Professor, Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Joined

September 2025

Names

René H. Tolba (Preferred)

René Tolba

Emails

****@ukaachen.de (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (rwth-aachen.de)

2007 – Present

Postdoc

House of Experimental Therapy, University Hospital Bonn (ukbonn.de)

2004 – 2008

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Johannes Stegmaier

2023 – Present

Coauthor

Heidrun Potschka

2019 – Present

Coauthor

Marcin Kopaczka

2016 – 2022

Expertise

preclinical research

2008 – 2025

Publications

Eye on the Target: Eye Tracking Meets Rodent Tracking
Emil Mededovic, Yuli Wu, Henning Konermann, Marcin Kopaczka, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba, Johannes Stegmaier
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
No Free Lunch in Annotation either: An objective evaluation of foundation models for streamlining annotation in animal tracking
Emil Mededovic, Valdy Laurentius, Yuli Wu, Marcin Kopaczka, Zhu Chen, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba, Johannes Stegmaier
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
No Free Lunch in Annotation Either: An Objective Evaluation of Foundation Models for Streamlining Annotation in Animal Tracking
Emil Mededovic, Valdy Laurentius, Yuli Wu, Marcin Kopaczka, Zhu Chen, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba, Johannes Stegmaier
- ISBI 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Computation of Traveled Distance of Pigs in an Open Field with Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
Marcin Kopaczka, Lisa Ernst, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba, Dorit Merhof
- Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Best variable identification by means of data-mining and cooperative game theory
Stefan Bruch, Lisa Ernst, Mareike Schulz, Leonie Zieglowski, René Tolba
- J. Biomed. Informatics 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Robust Open Field Rodent Tracking Using a Fully Convolutional Network and a Softargmax Distance Loss
Marcin Kopaczka, Tobias Jacob, Lisa Ernst, Mareike Schulz, René Tolba, Dorit Merhof
- Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Assessment of Laboratory Mouse Activity in Video Recordings Using Deep Learning Methods
Marcin Kopaczka, Daniel Tillmann, Lisa Ernst, Justus Schock, René Tolba, Dorit Merhof
- EMBC 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Contactless Anesthesia Monitoring in Spontanously Breathing Rodents
Janosch Kunczik, Carina Barbosa Pereira, Laura Wassermann, Christine Häger, André Bleich, Leonie Zieglowski, René Tolba, Michael Czaplik
- EMBC 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Introducing CNN-Based Mouse Grim Scale Analysis for Fully Automated Image-Based Assessment of Distress in Laboratory Mice
Marcin Kopaczka, Lisa Ernst, Justus Schock, Arne Schneuing, Alexander Guth, René Tolba, Dorit Merhof
- VCBM@MICCAI 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Remote Welfare Monitoring of Rodents Using Thermal Imaging
Carina Barbosa Pereira, Janosch Kunczik, Leonie Zieglowski, René Tolba, Ahmed Abdelrahman, Dietmar Zechner, Brigitte Vollmar, Heike Janssen, Thomas Thum, Michael Czaplik
- Sensors 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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