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BIRC Hybrid Seminar Series
Friday, May 24th, 2024 at 4:00pm in MSB 384 and on Zoom: Click Here to Join Zoom Meeting
Abstract
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have had a profound impact on medicine, for both clinicians and patients. Deep learning methods are used routinely in diagnosis – especially for medical imaging – and in therapy. The complexity and “black box” nature of deep learning has raised questions about its trustworthiness among some users because the systems’ reasoning cannot be explained. This talk describes some general principles of explainability and our recent efforts to make predictions and decisions about images able to be conveyed more clearly to clinicians. We examine feature mapping and wavelet scattering as plausible candidates and give examples of their application in prostate and colorectal cancer.
About the speaker:
Professor Loew is a professor of biomedical engineering at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His Laboratory for Medical Imaging and Image Analysis develops new methods for acquiring—and extracting useful information from—medical images. His research interests include machine learning, image analysis and perception, and bits of statistics, all as applied to medical images and sometimes to the preservation of cultural heritage. The disciplines involved include pattern recognition, biomedical image and signal processing, and computer vision, with occasional bits of psychophysics and statistics. Professor Loew is a Fulbright Fellow, and a Fellow of the IEEE, SPIE, and AIMBE.
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ISMRM 2024, May 4-9, 2024, Singapore, Abstract Submission Deadline: 08 November 2023
SNMMI 2024, June 8-11, 2024, Toronto ON, 2024 Abstract Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET
BioEM 2024, June 16-21, 2024, , Chania, Crete, Greece.
WMIC 2024, September 9-13, 2024, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
London Imaging Discovery Day 2023
Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award
Grace Parraga & David Holdsworth
Annual Award for Academic Excellence (AAAE)
Jonathan Thiessen (Research) & Amol Mujoomdar (Health Care Leadership)
Chairs Award for Inspiration
Susan Amaral
Tom Munro Award for Best Resident Research Presentation
Naman Siddique
Residents Choice Award for Best Oral Scientific Presentation
Henry Madubuobi
Magna Cum Laude
Salma Dammak, Natalie Li, Henry Madubuobi
Certificate of Merit
Jaryd Christie, David DeVries, Miriam Hewlett, Naman Siddique, Edward Wang, Sydney Wilson
Honourable Mention
Tricia Chinnery, Alicia Cronin, Lisa Garland, Ashley Miduca, Randa Mudathir, Lee Sikstrom
Image courtesy of O. Sehl.
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