Pieter De Backer: AI-assisted Surgical Training

Often as professional scientists who publish for a living, we have to face the question of novelty. As the questions we ask are often living in the liminal space of technology, clinical practice and social norms, it's not an easy task to determine what really novelty is. Yet if you take the comments of reviewers seriously as an early career researcher, you might get an imposter syndrome that everyone but you clearly understands what novelty is. We will have a deep discussion about how we can contextualize novelty within AI-READY Healthcare.

Veronika Cheplygina is a professor in the IT university of Copenhagen. She is focusing on making  medical AI more open & inclusive. Veronika also does a series of interviews with researchers called "How I Fail".Copycats: the many lives of a publicly available medical imaging dataset

Karim Lekadir is an ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barcelona. He investigates new data science techniques for trustworthy and ethical artificial intelligence in medicine. He has been PI of many EU-funded projects, and was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to investigate new AI techniques for resource-limited settings. Karim was the General Chair for the MICCAI 2024, that happened in Morocco.FUTURE-AI: international consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare

Zhongliang Jiang is leading the Robotics and Ultrasound Team at TU Munich, Germany. His research spans over medical robotics, robot learning, control and robotic ultrasound. Zhongliang's YouTube channel

Linda Johnson is an associate professor on cardiovascular research at the Lund university, Sweden.Artificial intelligence for direct-to-physician reporting of ambulatory electrocardiography

Mauricio Reyes is a professor at the ARTORG center in the university of Bern, Switzerland. Beyond pure academic research, Mauricio is quite successful in translational research. He co-founded Crisalix and got the first FDA-approval on AI for brain tumor patients. Mauricio is deeply interested in communicating science and technology to the broader audience.

Daniel Truhn is a physicist, imaging scientist, and clinical radiologist with a dedicated focus on machine learning and MRI. He is currently a professor in University Hospital Aachen, Germany bringing a series of work on Large Language Models for Radiology reporting.

Drew Williamson is a board certified pathologist who is focusing on pathology AI. Drew is part of the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute and the AI.Humanity initiative at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. We will hear all about his exciting research on clinical translation of Pathology AI. A multimodal generative AI copilot for human pathology

Jayashree kalpathy Cramer is the chief of the Division of Artificial Medical Intelligence in Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine. Jayashree is focusing on translational artificial intelligence (AI) for effective patient care practices at the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center.

Professor Randy Ellis is a legendary figure within the computer-assisted orthopedic surgery community. His primary appointment is in the School of Computing with additional appointments at the Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Surgery, and Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at the Queen's University, Canada.  He has been a Fellow of several organizations such as IEEE, American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME) etc.