Camila Gonzalez is a PostDoc in Stanford University, USA. Camila finished her PhD on medical continual learning in TU Darmstadt in March 2023, while accumulating multiple awards along the process. She is also the outgoing president of MICCAI Student Board, presiding it for the last 2 years. Lifelong nnU-Net: a framework for standardized medical continual learning...
Shek Azizi is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Her research is focused on translational AI with tangible clinical impact. She designs foundation models for biomedical applications. She has led the moonshot project behind Med-PaLM, Med-PaLM 2 and Med-PaLM M. Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
Daniel Hashimoto is an assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Dan has developed multiple computer vision algorithms for the analysis of surgical video, led international consensus on defining ground truth for the annotation of surgical video, and worked to define metrics to assess performance of AI algorithms on surgical tasks. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Annals of Surgery, and other jou...
Prof. Stephen Gilbert is a professor in Medical Device Regulatory Science at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health in TU Dresden, Germany. His research goal is to advance regulatory requirements, especially for software as a medical device and artificial intelligence in medical devices. Papers we discussed: Large language model AI chatbots require approval as medical devices Continuous Improvement of Digital Health Applications Linked to Real-World Performance Monitoring: Safe Movi...
Prof. Nitika Pai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the McGill University, Canada. Her global implementation research program in Canada, India and South Africa is primarily focused on point-of-care diagnostics for HIV and associated co-infections. Her research informs domestic and global policy on point-of-care diagnostics.
Prof. Swapnil Rane is a Pathologist by training, and currently a professor in Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, India. He is instrumental in bringing forward the AI and digital pathology research from India, especially the ongoing project of Indian Image BioBank.
Dr. Ishita Barua leads AI in healthcare at Deloitte, with a focus on improving equity and outcomes in digital health. She is a medical doctor and PhD by training with expertise in application and clinical validation of AI in Medicine. Ishita has won numerous awards including Top 50 women in tech and top 30 women in Norway shaping the field of artificial intelligence.
Prof. Raphael Sznitman is the Director of the ARTORG center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Raphael is interested in computational vision, probabilistic methods and statistical learning, applied to applications in medical imaging.
Instead of having a guest, Anirban and Henry just chit chats about the background stories, lessons learned, our ever-evolving thoughts etc. in the 50th episode of AI-ready Healthcare.
Prof. Nikos Paragios is a senior researcher focusing on computer vision and medical imaging. Nikos is a professor of Computer Science and Applied mathematics at CentraleSupélec, an affiliated scientific leader at INRIA while serving as the editor in chief of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal. Nikos is also the founder and CEO of TheraPanacea, provider of AI-powered software for more efficient radiotherapy workflow.
Lene Topp is passionate about designing and delivering training and other capacity building activities primarily for researchers looking to increase the impact of their research in policy sectors. Until February 2023, she worked in the European Union's Joint Research Center focusing on the "Science4Policy" gap. Among many other things, she led the development of Smart4Policy researchers tool to help researchers working in science-for-policy reflect on their level of competence. ....
Prof. Stefanie Speidel is a full professor for “Translational Surgical Oncology” and director at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden since 2017. She is an elected board member of the MICCAI society. She is well-know for her research on Surgical Data Science, data-driven surgical training and context-aware human-machine collaboration in the operating room.
Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris is the Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He also holds the Canon Medical/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Healthcare AI. He is also a Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute and an ELLIS Fellow.
Pascal Wettstein is the owner of QDC GmbH. He is the self-proclaimed "SME safari guide in the regulatory jungle." I highly recommend his rather sarcastic LinkedIn posts on European Medical Device Regulations. Beyond Europe, he has extensive knowledge about the 510K regulations in FDA.
Sharib Ali is the lecturer at School of Computing in the University of Leeds, UK. He has a PhD from France and spent time as a PostDoc in Germany as well as in Oxford before starting as the PI in Leeds. He is well-known for his research on AI for analyzing Endoscopic images. The two articles we discussed in this episode: 1. Where do we stand in AI for endoscopic image analysis? Deciphering gaps and future directions . 2. A multi-centre polyp detection and segmentation dataset for generalisabilit...
Prof. Jocelyne Troccaz is a legendary figure in image-guided medical robotics, with a career spanning across four decades. She covered a broad spectrum of applications including urology, radiotherapy, cardiac surgery, orthopedics to name a few. She won numerous awards. Some highlights include MICCAI 2022 enduring impact award and the highest French decoration (Légion d’Honneur).
Monir El Azzouzi created the Easy Medical Device ecosystem, that includes blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos and regular updates in LinkedIn. His mission is to make the process of bringing Compliant Medical Device to the Market easier. He has a deep understanding of the Medical Device Regulations at European Union. Easy Medical Device: https://easymedicaldevice.com/home/
Dr. Monika Sonu is a physician by training and Digital Health Entrepreneur by passion. She is the CEO of Health Innovation Toolbox. Monika drives digitisation of the operating models, functions and workflows within hospitals. She is also interested in creating better patient experience. She is named as HIMSS Future50 Innovation Leader in 2021.
Professor Purang Abolmaesumi is a Professor in University of British Columbia. He is very well-known within the MICCAI community for his research on Ultrasound imaging. Purang won numerous awards and honors. Some highlights would include being the 2020 MICCAI fellow and winning the Killam faculty research prize.
Prof. Joseph Kvedar is THE expert in terms of telehealth and digital health. He is leveraging information technology, such as cell phones, computers, networked devices and remote health monitoring tools to improve care delivery. He is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and vice president of Partners healthcare. He is also the editor-in-chief of npj Digital Medicine.
Andrew Janowczyk is an assistant professor at Emory University, USA. Andrew’s research focuses on applying computer vision and machine learning algorithms to digital pathology. His key area of expertise is in leveraging deep learning to build computational models for aiding pathologists in many common tasks, such as disease detection and cancer grading.
Robert MacDougall is the co-founder and current VP of Product and Customer Success at Quantivly . Quantivly is a start-up that is building the digital twin of radiology operations.
Professor Rückert’s field of research is the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning and their application to medicine and healthcare. His research focuses on (1) the development of innovative algorithms for biomedical image acquisition, image analysis and image interpretation – especially in the areas of image reconstruction, registration, segmentation, tracking and modelling; (2) AI for extracting clinically useful information from biomedical images – especially for computer-...
Jakob Nikolas kather is a professor at Technical University Dresden, leading the department of Clinical Artificial Intelligence at Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health. As a physician, he specializes in Internal Medicine and gastrointestinal oncology. As a researcher, he focuses on deep learning for immunotherapy biomarkers in cancer. Swarm learning for decentralized artificial intelligence in cancer histopathology...
Prateek Prasanna is an assistant professor in the Biomedical Informatics department at Stony Brook University, New York. He directs the Imaging Informatics for Precision Medicine Lab. His research interests lie at the intersection of medical image analysis and machine learning. We talked about the following papers: 1. Temporal Context Matters: Enhancing Single Image Prediction with Disease Progression Representations 2. RadioTransformer: A Cascaded Global-Focal Transformer for Visual Attention–g...
Sailesh Conjeti is on a mission to bring AI-based solutions to Healthcare and translating them to clinical use to make a difference. He is the Functional Lead of Data Science at Siemens Healthineers. You can read his blogposts at https://www.saileshconjeti.com/blog.
Ismini Lourentzou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Prior to VT, she spent a year as research scientist (Research Staff Member) at IBM Almaden Research Center, working on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval problems. Her research interests are broadly defined at the intersection of Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Chest ImaGenome Dataset for Clinical Reasoning: https://openreview.net/for...
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...
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...
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...
