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Akshay Chaudhari is an Assistant Professor in the Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at the Department of Radiology in Stanford University, USA. He leads the Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging research group and has a primary research interest at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medical imaging. He also serves as the Associate Director of Research and Education at the Stanford AIMI Center. Adapted large language models can outperform medical experts in clinical text summarization

Prof. Rajendra Pratap Gupta is a leading public policy expert with over a decade of experience. Rajendra has worked with the World Economic Forum in the past & has served as an advisor to the Union Health Minister of India. He is focusing on designing digital health policies to make healthcare AI-ready.

Prof. Hamid Tizhoosh explores the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, particularly in medical image analysis and cross relations to other patient data such as molecular, laboratory and textual data. His research is currently focused on search and matching in archives of patient data. Foundation Models for Histopathology—Fanfare or Flair Creating an atlas of normal tissue for pruning WSI patching through anomaly detection

Prof. Kevin Zhou is a Distinguished Professor and Founding Executive Dean of School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Before this, Dr. Zhou was a Principal Expert and a Senior R&D Director at Siemens Healthcare Research. He has been elected as a fellow of several top societies such as AIMBE, IEEE and MICCAI. Prof. Zhou serves the MICCAI society as a board member and currently focuses on generative AI for medical imaging.

Alexander Hann is a gastroenterologist at Uniklinik Würzburg, Germany and holds a professorship for digital transformation in gastroenterology, which focuses on AI support for endoscopic imaging.

Damini Dey is a professor in Biomedical Sciences at Cedars Sinai Medical center, Los Angeles, USA. Professor Dey focuses on automated derivation of imaging measures from noninvasive cardiac image data, clinical implementation of novel automated computer processing algorithms, and the application of these tools to solve key clinical problems. Her success stories include QFAT and AutoPlaque softwares.

Enzo Ferrante is a Research Scientist at Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. Enzo focuses on machine learning methods for biological and medical image analysis, including domain adaptation and segmentation with anatomical priors. Addressing fairness in artificial intelligence for medical imaging

Prof. Jochen Lennerz is the Medical Director of the Center for Integrated Diagnostics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. He is a board-certified pathologist by training and has professorship appointments at Harvard medical School. Prof. Lennerz co-organized the Data4Health 2023 conference in Berlin with the health minister of Germany Prof. Karl Lauterbach. Data4Health 2023 Berlin

Neel Dey is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL in Polina Golland’s Medical Vision Group, where he is building dense representation learning and domain randomization methods for data and compute-efficient learning tasks. Neel got his Ph.D. from New York University under Guido Gerig where he worked on generative models and inverse problems in medical image analysis. E(3) x SO(3) - Equivariant Networks for Spherical Deconvolution in Diffusion MRI AnyStar: Domain randomized universal star-convex 3D instance segmentation

Maria Zuluaga is an assistant professor in the Data Science department at EURECOM, France. Additionally Maria holds a junior chair at the 3IA Institute Côte d’Azur and also a visiting Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. She focuses on machine learning techniques that can be safely deployed in high risk domains, such as healthcare, by addressing data complexity, low tolerance to errors and poor reproducibility. From Accuracy to Reliability and Robustness in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation: A Review Interactive Medical Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning With Image-Specific Fine Tuning