AI-ready Healthcare

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 journals. He is editor of the textbook Artificial Intelligence in Surgery: Understanding the Role of AI in Surgical Practice. He is also heavily involved in MICCAI society with a focused attention to CLINICCAI.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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/forum?id=H-d5634yVi

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 design, he builds human-centered solutions that are embodied in emerging technology such as mixed reality and robotics.

Pre-print of the paper we discussed: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.12596v1.pdf

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, moderator, and TV anchor). 

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 prematurity, stroke, traumatic brain injury, pre-clinical cancer studies, and others. He has also been instrumental in the creation of the Insight Toolkit (ITK), major updates to 3D Slicer, and the development of new technologies and the VTK.js library for web-based scientific visualization.

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.

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 insight that information-based technologies can have just as profound an impact on computer-integrated medicine as it has had on computer-integrated manufacturing.

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.