Mathias Unberath is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and is affiliated with the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. With his group—the Advanced Robotics and Computationally AugmenteD Environments (ARCADE) Lab—he advances healthcare by creating collaborative intelligent systems that support clinical workflows. Through synergistic research on imaging, computer vision, machine learning, and interaction d...
Aug 09, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Taufique Joarder is a health policy and systems researcher and a university faculty. He has thirteen years of national and international experience and a doctorate in public health with expertise in health policy and systems research, teaching and training as well as extensive publishing. His background also includes higher leadership positions in NGOs/CSOs, faculty positions, policy-relevant engagements in Bangladesh and abroad, and extensive media involvement (as an expert, guest discussant, m...
Aug 02, 2022•48 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Stephen Aylward, Ph.D., is the senior director of strategic initiatives and founder of Kitware’s North Carolina office. He helps drive multiple research and open source software development projects at Kitware. Over the past 25+ years, Stephen has conducted medical image analysis research covering nearly every aspect of health care, including screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, guidance, and outcome assessment for mammography, neurosurgery, partial liver transplantation, retinopathy of pre...
Jul 26, 2022•44 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Lena Maier-Hein is the head of the Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI) department at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany. Her research focuses on Surgical Data Science and rankings of biomedical challenges.
Apr 12, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Russ Taylor is the father of robotic surgery. Hi is the John C. Malone Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and the director of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. His research has focused on all aspects of computer-integrated interventional medicine. Broadly, this research has included: Medical robotics Medical imaging & modeling and Complete systems for surgical assistance, image-guided surgery, and "Surgical CAD/CAM". An underlying theme has been the basic i...
Apr 05, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Ilker is interested in the extraction of relevant information from three dimensional (3D) medical images by developing state of the art computational algorithms for image guided surgery and therapy applications. The main objective of his research is to study and model medical procedures and introduce advanced computer integrated solutions to improve their quality, efficiency, and safety.
Mar 29, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Frank (Yanwu) Xu , is an Intelligent Healthcare Scientist (research lead) at Baidu, an Adjunct Professor at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and an Adjunct Principal Investigator at Singapore Eye Research Institute. Frank is also serving the World Health Organization (WHO) as a technical advisory group member of Digital Health and an expert group member of Data Principles and Sharing Policies....
Mar 22, 2022•57 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Lorenzo Righetto is an associate Editor of Nature Communications where he handles manuscripts in the area of digital medicine and computational health. Lorenzo joined Nature Communications in January 2020. Lorenzo is based in the London office.
Mar 15, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Karsten Ridder is a practicing radiologist from Dortmund, Germany with a special focus on Women's Health Imaging and Cardiovascular Imaging. He received numerous awards for his clinical research and innovation, including German Medical Award for Innovation in 2021.
Mar 08, 2022•54 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Prof. Shuo Li is the Founding Scientific Director of Digital Imaging Group at London, Canada. He is also the general chair of MICCAI 2022 that will happen in Singapore.
Mar 01, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Julia Schnabel is the Professor for Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine at TUM (TUM Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professorship), jointly with Helmholtz Center Munich (Helmholtz Distinguished Professorship). Her research focuses on intelligent imaging solutions and computer aided evaluation, including complex motion modelling, image reconstruction, image quality control, image segmentation and classification, applied to multi-modal, quantitative and dynamic imaging. She is the co-general ch...
Dec 07, 2021•49 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Anant Madabhushi is the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland and director of the university's Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD). He is a Research Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center and has affiliate appointments both at University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic. He holds secondary appointments in the departments of Urology, Radiology, Pathol...
Nov 30, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Leo Joskowicz is a pioneer of Computer Assisted Intervention and the President of MICCAI society. He is a professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this episode, we explore his interest in Geometry, Shape and making MICCAI society a home to all scientists working in medical imaging problems, no matter their geographical location....
Nov 23, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Dan Stoyanov is a Professor of Robot Vision in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, Director of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Dan is also Chief Scientific Officer at Digital Surgery Ltd and Co-Founder of Odin Medical, both companies specializing in developing AI products for interventional healthcare. ...
Nov 16, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 4
John Mongan is the Associate Chair for Translational Informatics, Director of the Center for Intelligent Imaging and an Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology (Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound section) in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses on AI in medical imaging. In this session, we discussed the business case of Radiology AI and his Checklist for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CLAIM) . Y...
Nov 09, 2021•56 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Qi Dou is an Assistant Professor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focus is on the interdisciplinary field of medical image analysis, artificial intelligence and robotics. In this episode, we talked about the importance of Federated Learning in medical imaging and in particular, her paper Federated deep learning for detecting COVID-19 lung abnormalities in CT: a privacy-preserving multinational validation study . You can find her in Twitter @QiDou_ ....
Nov 02, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Professor Andreas Maier leads the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In this episode, we discussed his research on Known Operator Learning and in particular his paper Learning with known operators reduces maximum error bounds . You can find him in Twitter @maier_ak ....
Oct 26, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Professor Alex Frangi is Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, with joint appointments at the School of Computing and the School of Medicine. He directs the CISTIB Center for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine . In this episode, we discuss computational medicine, the promises of in-silico trials and his new paper In-silico trial of intracranial flow diver...
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Dr. Yuri Tolkach , a pathologist and researcher from Uniklinik Köln, is breaking new grounds in digital pathology with probing questions about the usability of deep learning. In this episode, we discussed in great details his recent article on Quality control stress test for deep learning-based diagnostic model in digital pathology ....
Sep 07, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Marius Linguraru is a principal investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Linguraru is also professor of Radiology and Pediatrics and secondary professor of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University. He co-founded PediaMetrix Inc. , a company focused on infant well-being by creating solutions to improve the management of conditions of early childhood. Finally Dr. Linguraru is a board member of...
Aug 31, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Arijit Patra , a senior machine learning scientist from AstraZeneca, discusses how AI can significantly speed-up pre-clinical imaging. He also discussed his PhD thesis on continual learning for fetal ultrasound imaging.
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Indranil Mallick , a practicing oncologist from India, asserts the necessity of AI in Radiation Oncology. His reflections of practicing Oncology through the two waves of the pandemic in India is a reminder, how varied the demands are of the AI-readiness of healthcare across the globe.
Aug 17, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Michal Rosen-Zvi , director of IBM Research's healthcare informatics, talks about her perspective on the usefulness of radiology AI during the pandemic. In particular, we discussed her recently published article On the role of artificial intelligence in medical imaging of COVID-19 . With multiple articles describing similar concerns, this is a timely episode about a very relevant topic. Further reading: 1. Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. 2. Common pitfal...
Aug 10, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 2
We chatted with the radiologist Dr. Daniel Pinto dos Santos about his research in deep learning for radiology. We focused on two of his recent articles. You can read both open-access article right here: 1. Structured report data can be used to develop deep learning algorithms: a proof of concept in ankle radiographs 2. To buy or not to buy—evaluating commercial AI solutions in radiology (the ECLAIR guidelines ) ...
Aug 03, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Prof. Terry Peters tackles problems related to Image-guided interventions with a special focus on intra-operative navigation. While majority of MICCAI society is whole-heartedly embracing AI, Prof. Peters, a MICCAI fellow, voices his skepticism in some of the research directions. He cautions about proper standardization and interpretability of healthcare AI. Very important lessons for the majority of young members within MICCAI society. ...
Jun 15, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Ilkay Oksuz is an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. He leads the Predictive Intelligence and Medical Imaging (PIMI) Lab. He talks about his research on machine learning for medical image quality assessment with a particular focus towards Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Jun 08, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Dr. Saif Afat is a radiologist, originally from Iraq, trained and actively practicing in the University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany . He will introduce the radiology at the global context beyond developed world and the role that AI can play in global Radiology.
Jun 01, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dr. Andreas Bucher is a radiologist practicing at the University Hospital Frankfurt. He is also one of the spokesperson of the project RACOON and the secretary of 102nd German Radiology Congress . In this episode Dr. Bucher shares his view about AI from a radiologist's perspective who is practicing in Germany. ...
May 25, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Professor Dorweiler is the director of the Clinic for Vascular Surgery in the Heart Center of the Cologne University Hospital . He is interested in the digital advancement of surgeries with a special focus on 3D printing patient specific anatomies for surgical planning and teaching. In this episode, he talks about his vision of how AI can help in this endeavor.
May 18, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Sandy Engelhardt is an assistant professor in the University hospital of Heidelberg , Germany. She leads the research group of AI in Cardiovascular Medicine. In this podcast, she talks about her research of using AI for complex Cardiac Surgery as well as the AdaptOR challenge (in association with the DGM4MICCAI workshop) we are co-organizing for MICCAI 2021. ...
May 11, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 2
