2023 4^th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences(ISAIMS 2023)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Erik Meijering

Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia;IEEE Fellow

Speech Title: Artificial Intelligence in Bioimage Analysis

Abstract

Advanced biomedical imaging technologies play a key role in both healthcare and the life sciences, as they allow visualizing the structure and function of organs, tissues, cells, and even single molecules with very high sensitivity and specificity. Biomedical imaging devices typically generate vast amounts of multiparametric spatiotemporal imaging data, containing much more relevant and subtle information than can be processed by humans, even if they are experts. Hence there is an ever-growing need for computational methods to analyze these data automatically, not only to cope with the sheer volume of the image data sets, but also to reach a higher level of accuracy, objectivity, and reproducibility. To this end we develop advanced computer vision methods for a wide range of problems, including restoration, enhancement, super-resolution, and registration of images, as well as detection, segmentation, quantification, classification, and tracking of objects in these images. To cope with the high complexity of these problems, we rely increasingly on machine learning approaches for this, in particular deep learning using artificial neural networks. In addition to developing new methods, we are strong proponents of evaluating and benchmarking methods thoroughly and making them publicly available in the form of user-friendly software tools. This talk will highlight some of the methods we have been developing, especially for the analysis of cellular and intracellular dynamic processes and morphologies, to facilitate biological studies of the molecular mechanisms of life in health and disease.

Biography

Erik Meijering is a Professor of Biomedical Image Computing in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University of New SouthWales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence for Quantitative Biomedical Image Analysis, on which he has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers. He received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (1996) and his PhD degree in Medical Image Analysis from Utrecht University (2000), both in the Netherlands. Before moving to UNSW (in 2019), he was a Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2002) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and an Assistant Professor (2002-2008) and later Associate Professor (2008-2019) at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and served on the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP), the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing (BIIP), and the cross-Society IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community (LSTC). He also was/is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (since 2004), the International Journal on Biomedical Imaging (2006-2009), the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2008-2011), and Biological Imaging (since 2020), has co-edited various journal special issues and co-organized conferences in the field, notably the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) and the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), and served/serves on a great variety of other international conference, advisory, and review boards.

Zhisheng Huang

Professor, Free University (VU), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

EiC of Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences

Biography

Professor Zhisheng Huang is a tenured senior researcher at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a full professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China. Prof. Huang obtained a doctorate degree in computer science and logic at the University of Amsterdam in 1994. He has published more than 200 papers, and more than 9 books in Artificial Intelligence, logics, and multimedia. He received the best paper award for the paper entitled “Feasibility Estimation for Clinical Trials” at the 2014 International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF/BIOSTEC).

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Pier Paolo Piccaluga

Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Bologna University, Italy

Biography

Pier Paolo Piccaluga, MD, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, Bologna University School of Medicine—Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and executive physician at The Biobank of Research, IRCCS S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital. In 2018, he was appointed to teaching posts at the Queen Mary University of London and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya. He is the author of several international publications in journals such as Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Lancet Oncology, and Lancet Infectious Diseases. Dr. Piccaluga is ranked a Top Italian Scientist (TIS) by VIA-Academy.

Yao Lu

Professor, Computational Medical Imaging Laboratory, Sun Yat-sen University, China