AI-ready Healthcare
Episodes
Nassir Navab: My journey
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nassir Navab is a professor of computer-aided medical procedures and augmented reality in TU Munich. His work involves developing technologies to impr...
Francesco Ciompi: Pathology Discovery with Foundation Models
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Francesco Ciompi is an Associate Professor and Research Group Leader in AI for Precision Medicine at the Department of Pathology of Radboud Univers...
Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballister: Shape, Uncertainty and Simulation
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballister is a professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he founded the famous Barcelona Centre for New Medi...
Sophia Bano: Context-aware Surgical Robotics
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sophia Bano is an associate professor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Sophia...
Bishesh Khanal: NAAMII - a model for low-resource excellence
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bisesh Khanal is the director of NAAMII Nepal and founder of Abhinavnepal. Bisesh did his PhD in INRIA Sophia Antipolis and PostDoc in London. His dre...
100: Neural Cellular Automata, Part 2
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Awesome NCANCA High Resolution Medical Image Segmentation Networks• MED-NCA: Bio-inspired medical image segmentation (Kalkhof et al.)https://www....
John Kalkhof: Neural Cellular Automata, Part 1
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Neural Cellular Automata Background• Growing Neural Cellular Automata (Mordvintsev et al.)https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/?ref=https://github...
Jakob Wasserthal: TotalSegmentator
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jakob Wasserthal, a researcher of Medical AI, located in the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Jakob is well-known for his TotalSegmentator.Web:...
Paul Barach: Trust technology for a Safer Healthcare culture
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Barach, an anesthesiologist and critical care physician-scientist as well as public health researcher from Thomas Jefferson University, USA. Paul...
Jens Kleesiek: Treat Patients, Not Data
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jens Kleesiek is a Professor of Translational Image-guided Oncology in the university hospital Essen. The Focus of Jens’s research is on applying se...
Ghazal Ghazaei: Total Surgery
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ghazal Ghazei, a research scientist in Karl Zeiss GmbH. She is focusing on medical AI for eye diagnostics and surgery applications.
Aleksei Tiulpin: Uncertain Medical VLMs
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aleksei Tiulpin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oulu, Finnland and soon to be a professor in Cornell, USA. Aleksei focuses on Intellige...
Pingkun Yan: Trustworthy XAI
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pingkun Yan is a full professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA. Before joining RPI, he was...
Marco Lorenzi: FedBioMed
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Lorenzi is a research scientist in the EPIONE team of Inria Sophia Antipolis and Université Côte d’Azur, France. Marco's research is o...
Ehsan Adeli: Ambient medical intelligence
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ehsan Adeli is an Assistant Professor from Stanford University, directing the Stanford Translational AI (STAI) in Medicine and Mental Health Lab. E...
Novelty
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 li...
Veronika Cheplygina: The many lives of public datasets
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Veronika Cheplygina is a professor in the IT university of Copenhagen. She is focusing on making medical AI more open & inclusive. Veronika also...
Karim Lekadir: Health Equity in MICCAI
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karim Lekadir is an ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barcelona. He investigates new...
Zhongliang Jiang: Robotic Ultrasound
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zhongliang Jiang is leading the Robotics and Ultrasound Team at TU Munich, Germany. His research spans over medical robotics, robot learning, control ...
Linda Johnson: Clinical validation of ECG AI
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Johnson is an associate professor on cardiovascular research at the Lund university, Sweden.Artificial intelligence for direct-to-physician repo...
Mauricio Reyes: XAI in Radiotherapy
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mauricio Reyes is a professor at the ARTORG center in the university of Bern, Switzerland. Beyond pure academic research, Mauricio is quite successful...
Daniel Truhn: LLMs can perform Radiology Reporting
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Truhn is a physicist, imaging scientist, and clinical radiologist with a dedicated focus on machine learning and MRI. He is currently a profess...
Drew Williamson: The PathChat Story
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Jayashree kalpathy Cramer: Eye AI
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jayashree kalpathy Cramer is the chief of the Division of Artificial Medical Intelligence in Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado (CU) School ...
Randy Ellis: Surgical AI in the Orthopaedics
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Randy Ellis is a legendary figure within the computer-assisted orthopedic surgery community. His primary appointment is in the School of Com...
Uta Schmidt-Straßburger: Oncology AI that empowers patients
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Uta Schmidt-Strassburer is the scientific director of the Advanced Oncology study program at the Ulm university Germany. She is also a fellow podcaste...
Juan Verde: A surgeon making Operating Rooms AI-ready
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Verde is a Digestive and hepato-biliary-pancreatic Surgeon by training with a deep passion for surgical AI. Juan is currently working as a fu...
Michael Levin: Collective and Diverse Intelligence
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology at Tufts. Mike also serves as the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the ...
Maciej A. Mazurowski: SAM for Medical AI
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maciej Mazurowski is an Associate Professor of Radiology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Computer Science ...
Yiyu Shi: Resource-aware Medical AI
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Yiyu Shi, is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre dam, USA. He is also a visiting scientist at Boston ...
[MICCAI Special] On reviewing well
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about our take on how to review well in MICCAI and related conferences, both for the reviewers and the meta reviewers.
Hitesh Dave: The age of Computational Pathology
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hitesh Dave is the Digital Pathology and AI Lead of Roche Diagnostics. Dr. Dave is a Global Change Leader, Chartered Scientist and Strategic managemen...
Saad Nadeem: Integrated Diagnostics
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saad Nadeem is an assistant attending computer scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with dual appointments in the Departments of Medica...
Naren Akash RJ: MICCAI Student Board
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MICCAI Student Board Mission The MICCAI Student Board (MSB) represents student interests within the MICCAI society, and aims to stimulate the involve...
Islem Rekik: Graph Neural Nets for Brain Connectomics
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Islem Rekik is the Director of the Brain And SIgnal Research and Analysis (BASIRA) laboratory (http://basira-lab.com/) and an Associate Professor at I...
Akshay Chaudhari: LLMs for Clinical Text Summarization
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Akshay Chaudhari is an Assistant Professor in the Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at the Department of Radiology in Stanford University, US...
Rajendra Pratap Gupta: Designing policies to make Healthcare AI-ready
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
H.R. Tizhoosh: Foundation models in Histopathology
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Hamid Tizhoosh explores the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, particularly in medical image analysis and cross relations...
S. Kevin Zhou: Building a Medical Time Machine
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Kevin Zhou is a Distinguished Professor and Founding Executive Dean of School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of...
Alexander Hann: AI for endoscopic imaging
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Hann is a gastroenterologist at Uniklinik Würzburg, Germany and holds a professorship for digital transformation in gastroenterology, which...
Damini Dey: Cardiology AI
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Damini Dey is a professor in Biomedical Sciences at Cedars Sinai Medical center, Los Angeles, USA. Professor Dey focuses on automated derivation of i...
Enzo Ferrante: Fairness in Medical AI
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enzo Ferrante is a Research Scientist at Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. Enzo focuses on machine learning methods for biologi...
Joe Lennerz: Berlin Declaration of Health Data Sharing
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Jochen Lennerz is the Medical Director of the Center for Integrated Diagnostics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. He is a board-certif...
Neel Dey: Invariances and Covariances of Medical Imaging
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neel Dey is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL in Polina Golland’s Medical Vision Group, where he is building dense representation learning and ...
Maria Zuluaga: Trustworthy Medical AI
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Zuluaga is an assistant professor in the Data Science department at EURECOM, France. Additionally Maria holds a junior chair at the 3IA Instit...
Heather Couture: Oncopathology AI
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Heather Couture is a Consultant, a Researcher and a Writer. Heather is a consultant and owner of Pixel Scientia Labs. She works on a variety of in...
Pieter De Backer: AI-assisted Surgical Training
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pieter De Backer leads the Innotech department at Orsi, a training and innovation centre in minimal invasive & robotic surgery located in Gent, Be...
Camila Gonzalez: Medical Continual Learning
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Camila Gonzalez is a PostDoc in Stanford University, USA. Camila finished her PhD on medical continual learning in TU Darmstadt in March 2023, while a...
Shek Azizi: Google DeepMind's Foundational Medical Models
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shek Azizi is a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. Her research is focused on translational AI with tangible clinical impact. She designs f...
Dan Hashimoto: Making surgery AI-ready
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Hashimoto is an assistant Professor of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Dan has developed multiple computer visi...
Stephen Gilbert: AIaMD regulations
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Stephen Gilbert is a professor in Medical Device Regulatory Science at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health in TU Dresden, Germa...
Nitika Pai: Global Digital Health
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Nitika Pai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the McGill University, Canada. Her global implementation research program ...
Swapnil Rane: Indian Image BioBank
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Swapnil Rane is a Pathologist by training, and currently a professor in Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, India. He is instrumental in bringing forw...
Ishita Barua: Gender gap in health data
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Raphael Sznitman: AI-powered Eye Surgery
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Raphael Sznitman is the Director of the ARTORG center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Raphael is interested...
Nifti 50
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of having a guest, Anirban and Henry just chit chats about the background stories, lessons learned, our ever-evolving thoughts etc. in the 50t...
Nikos Paragios: AI-guided Precision Radiotherapy
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Nikos Paragios is a senior researcher focusing on computer vision and medical imaging. Nikos is a professor of Computer Science and Applied mat...
Lene Topp: Science4Policy
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lene Topp is passionate about designing and delivering training and other capacity building activities primarily for researchers looking to increase t...
Stefanie Speidel: Simulation in Surgical Data Science
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Stefanie Speidel is a full professor for “Translational Surgical Oncology” and director at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden si...
Sotirios Tsaftaris: Causal Representation Learning
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris is the Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He also holds the Canon Medical/Roy...
Pascal Wettstein: FDA or MDR? Where should SMEs go for their AI SaMD
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Wettstein is the owner of QDC GmbH. He is the self-proclaimed "SME safari guide in the regulatory jungle." I highly recommend his rat...
Sharib Ali: AI-powered Endoscopic Image Analysis
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Jocelyne Troccaz: MICCAI impacting Prostrate Biopsy
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Jocelyne Troccaz is a legendary figure in image-guided medical robotics, with a career spanning across four decades. She covered a broad spectru...
Monir El Azzouzi: Medical Device Regulation of AI SaMD
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Monir El Azzouzi created the Easy Medical Device ecosystem, that includes blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos and regular updates in LinkedIn. His mission...
Monika Sonu: Frugal digital health innovation
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Monika Sonu is a physician by training and Digital Health Entrepreneur by passion. She is the CEO of Health Innovation Toolbox. Monika drives digi...
Purang Abolmaesumi: Telehealth = POCUS+AI
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Purang Abolmaesumi is a Professor in University of British Columbia. He is very well-known within the MICCAI community for his research on U...
Joseph Kvedar: Nurturing Digital Health through Nature
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Joseph Kvedar is THE expert in terms of telehealth and digital health. He is leveraging information technology, such as cell phones, computers, ...
Andrew Janowczyk: Quality Assurance in histopathology images
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Janowczyk is an assistant professor at Emory University, USA. Andrew’s research focuses on applying computer vision and machine learning algo...
Robert MacDougall: Quantivly's digital twin of radiology operations
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert MacDougall is the co-founder and current VP of Product and Customer Success at Quantivly. Quantivly is a start-up that is building the digital ...
Daniel Rückert: Federated Disentanglement
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Rückert’s field of research is the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning and their application to medicine and health...
Jakob Nikolas Kather: Swarm intelligence for Oncology
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jakob Nikolas kather is a professor at Technical University Dresden, leading the department of Clinical Artificial Intelligence at Else Kroener Fresen...
Prateek Prasanna: Augmenting Radiologist's Knowledge into AI
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prateek Prasanna is an assistant professor in the Biomedical Informatics department at Stony Brook University, New York. He directs the Imaging Inform...
Sailesh Conjeti: MLOps for Healthcare AI
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sailesh Conjeti is on a mission to bring AI-based solutions to Healthcare and translating them to clinical use to make a difference. He is the Functio...
Ismini Lourentzou: Chest ImaGenome
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ismini Lourentzou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Prior to VT, she spent a year as research scientist (Research Staff ...
Matthias Unberath: Forgotten Humans of Explainable AI
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mathias Unberath is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and is affiliated with the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and ...
Taufique Joarder: Policy Questions of Healthcare AI
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taufique Joarder is a health policy and systems researcher and a university faculty. He has thirteen years of national and international experience an...
Stephen Aylward: The case of Open-source software
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Aylward, Ph.D., is the senior director of strategic initiatives and founder of Kitware’s North Carolina office. He helps drive multiple rese...
Lena Maier-Hein: What does it mean to win a Biomedical Challenge?
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lena Maier-Hein is the head of the Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI) department at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg...
Russ Taylor: The role of AI in Robotic Surgery
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russ Taylor is the father of robotic surgery. Hi is the John C. Malone Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and the director of the Labora...
Ilker Hacihaliloglu: Ultrasound for all
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ilker is interested in the extraction of relevant information from three dimensional (3D) medical images by developing state of the art computational ...
Frank Xu: Baidu's AI, WHO's Digital Health & other stories
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frank (Yanwu) Xu, is an Intelligent Healthcare Scientist (research lead) at Baidu, an Adjunct Professor at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &a...
Lorenzo Righetto: Publishing MICCAI research into Nature Communications
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lorenzo Righetto is an associate Editor of Nature Communications where he handles manuscripts in the area of digital medicine and computational health...
Karsten Ridder: Communication is key for AI-ready Healthcare
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karsten Ridder is a practicing radiologist from Dortmund, Germany with a special focus on Women's Health Imaging and Cardiovascular Imaging. He receiv...
Shuo Li: Will MICCAI 2022 be virtual?
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Shuo Li is the Founding Scientific Director of Digital Imaging Group at London, Canada. He is also the general chair of MICCAI 2022 that will ha...
Julia Schnabel: MICCAI goes to Africa
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Schnabel is the Professor for Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine at TUM (TUM Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professorship), jointly with He...
Anant Madabhushi: When MICCAI scientist meets Real Clinicians
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anant Madabhushi is the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland and director of t...
Leo Joskowicz: Shaping up AI and MICCAI
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leo Joskowicz is a pioneer of Computer Assisted Intervention and the President of MICCAI society. He is a professor at the School of Engineering and C...
Dan Stoyanov: Surgical Data Science 101
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Stoyanov is a Professor of Robot Vision in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, Director of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre ...
John Mongan: To buy or not to buy radiology AI
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Mongan is the Associate Chair for Translational Informatics, Director of the Center for Intelligent Imaging and an Associate Professor of Clinica...
Qi Dou: Federated Learning for radiology
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Qi Dou is an Assistant Professor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focus is on the interdisciplinary field of medical image analy...
Andreas Maier: Known operator learning for medical imaging
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Andreas Maier leads the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In this episode, we discussed his...
Alex Frangi: Unlocking In-silico clinical trials
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Alex Frangi is Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the Univer...
Yuri Tolkach: Silent Failures of Deep Digital Pathology
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Yuri Tolkach, a pathologist and researcher from Uniklinik Köln, is breaking new grounds in digital pathology with probing questions about the usa...
Marius Linguraru: Making babies fitter - within MICCAI and beyond
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marius Linguraru is a principal investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Hospital in Washin...
Arijit Patra: Big-Pharmas need imaging AI, and they don't know it yet!
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arijit Patra, a senior machine learning scientist from AstraZeneca, discusses how AI can significantly speed-up pre-clinical imaging. He also discusse...
Indranil Mallick: Why Indian healthcare needs AI post COVID? Reflections of a Radiation Oncologist
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Indranil Mallick, a practicing oncologist from India, asserts the necessity of AI in Radiation Oncology. His reflections of practicing Oncology throug...
Michal Rosen-Zvi: Underwhelming maturity of Radiology AI in COVID-19 imaging
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michal Rosen-Zvi, director of IBM Research's healthcare informatics, talks about her perspective on the usefulness of radiology AI during the pandemic...
Daniel Pinto dos Santos: Get your radiology report structured, have some ECLAIRS!
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We chatted with the radiologist Dr. Daniel Pinto dos Santos about his research in deep learning for radiology. We focused on two of his recent article...
Terry Peters: Beware of the nasty surprises from healthcare AI
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Terry Peters tackles problems related to Image-guided interventions with a special focus on intra-operative navigation. While majority of MICCAI...
Ilkay Oksuz: AI gives a thumbs-up to Cardiac MRI
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ilkay Oksuz is an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University. He leads the Predictive Intelligence and Me...