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.

Prof. Raphael Sznitman is the Director of the ARTORG center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Raphael is interested in computational vision, probabilistic methods and statistical learning, applied to applications in medical imaging.

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.

Lene Topp is passionate about designing and delivering training and other capacity building activities primarily for researchers looking to increase the impact of their research in policy sectors. Until February 2023, she worked in the European Union's Joint Research Center focusing on the "Science4Policy" gap. Among many other things, she led the development of Smart4Policy researchers tool to help researchers working in science-for-policy reflect on their level of competence.

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.

Sharib Ali is the lecturer at School of Computing in the University of Leeds, UK. He has a PhD from France and spent time as a PostDoc in Germany as well as in Oxford before starting as the PI in Leeds. He is well-known for his research on AI for analyzing Endoscopic images.

The two articles we discussed in this episode:

1. Where do we stand in AI for endoscopic image analysis? Deciphering gaps and future directions.

2. A multi-centre polyp detection and segmentation dataset for generalisability assessment.

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).