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Exploring the Horizon

Exploring the Horizon

By Erik Ranschaert

Welcome to Exploring the Horizon, where amazing things happen. I will bring you closer to bright and fascinating people from all over the world, so-called influencers. I hope they can inspire you as much as they’ve already inspired me, or maybe not, but for my part, it is nothing more than an attempt to convey the passion for my profession to you.
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Episode 9 - The Medical Doctor as Data Scientist. Interview with dr. Bart-Jan Verhoeff

Exploring the HorizonJul 05, 2019

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Episode 10 - Collective Minds Radiology. Interview with Anders Nordell, CEO.

Episode 10 - Collective Minds Radiology. Interview with Anders Nordell, CEO.

Interview with Anders Nordell, CEO of Collective Minds Radiology, a new Scandinavian platform for radiologists. The platform enables radiologists to ask for second opinions in an quick and interactive way, and also offers the opportunity to exchange interesting cases for educational purposes. One of the goals of Collective Minds is to bring Artificial Intelligence closer to the radiologists, and to make them understand how it can be used. If you want to learn more then please listen to this 35 min podcast.

Dec 21, 201935:30
Episode 9 - The Medical Doctor as Data Scientist. Interview with dr. Bart-Jan Verhoeff

Episode 9 - The Medical Doctor as Data Scientist. Interview with dr. Bart-Jan Verhoeff

For Episode 9 we interviewed doctor Bart-Jan Verhoeff, who's a nephrologist, a medical doctor specialized in kidney diseases. He works at the St. Jansdal Hospital in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, where he’s also CMIO or Chief Medical Information Officer. He’s also known as dokter.ai, from the blog carrying the same name.
He trained himself in machine learning to develop an algorithm able to predict the likelihood of re-uptake of his patients. Verhoeff emphasizes the usefulness of machine learning as a method of using patient data intelligently. By using models based on data from the Electronic Patient Record (EPR), doctors can make predictions, so that they can improve work processes, and improve the quality of patient care.
Please stay tuned and listen to this interesting 30 minute interview.
Jul 05, 201927:16
Episode 8 - Interview with Jonathan Berte, CEO of Robovision

Episode 8 - Interview with Jonathan Berte, CEO of Robovision

Jonathan Berte is the founder and CEO of Robovision, a turnkey AI solution provider with a powerful deep learning platform called RVAI.

The company is specialized in deep learning-based machine vision and robot programming and is focused on the design, development and deployment of complete automation processes, where illumination, digital cameras, robots and artificial intelligent agents play an important role.

Since recently the company has also become active in the medical field for labeling radiological images in the development of DL algorithms. The RVAI platform is not only able of speeding up the labeling process thanks its learning ability, making it possible to automize the segmentation process, but it also allows its users without any deep learning software skills — including radiologists — to develop algorithms themselves.

This exciting interview will undoubtedly open the eyes of those eager to learn more about what the future can and will bring us.

Apr 09, 201938:28
Episode 7 - ECR 2019 interview with Prof. Bram van Ginneken

Episode 7 - ECR 2019 interview with Prof. Bram van Ginneken

Dr. Bram van Ginneken is Professor of Medical Image Analysis at Radboud University Medical Center and chairs the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group. He is founder of Thirona, a company that develops software and provides services for medical image analysis. He studied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University. In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. at the Image Sciences Institute with a thesis on Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Chest Radiography. He has (co-)authored over 200 publications in international journals. He pioneered the concept of challenges in medical image analysis and is founder of the grand-challenge.org  platform.

Mar 16, 201914:57
Episode 6 - ECR 2019 interview with Hugh Harvey

Episode 6 - ECR 2019 interview with Hugh Harvey

Dr. Hugh Harvey is radiologist and Clinical Director at Kheiron Medical, a company focusing on the development of artificial intelligence software for breast cancer screening. Dr. Harvey is member of the Royal College of Radiologists' committee for medical imaging informatics and of the the AI working group. He is a consultant and advisory board member for AI start-ups in the UK, EU and America within the imaging and healthcare space, and is sitting on several AI and academic committees. He co-authored several white papers and reports on AI in healthcare, alongside bodies such as Reform, and independent think-tank, and Health Education England. He acted as co-chair of the Topol Review, a seminal independent report for the UK Secretary of State for Health into preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future.
In this interview we talk about the value and possibilities of AI for radiologists, and about the reasons why the radiologists should embrace these new developments. Hugh expresses his well-founded vision as radiologist on this rather disruptive innovation in radiology.

Mar 06, 201914:09
Episode 5 - Connecting with China for AI in Radiology (Catherine Yang)
Feb 06, 201935:52
Episode 4 - Platforms to build medical AI datasets and algorithms

Episode 4 - Platforms to build medical AI datasets and algorithms

This episode is an interview with George Shih, founder of the MD.ai platform as engineer and radiologist at Weill Cornell Medical Center (NYC). The principle of using cloud-based tools to collect and annotate datasets for developing AI algorithms is explained. Other topics such as the value of making medical imaging data available, sharing datasets and involving radiologists in this process are discussed. At the end the possibilities and value of blockchain technology are addressed. Feel welcome to listen to this 45 min fascinating interview.
Jan 23, 201947:43
Epidsode 3 - Medical Imaging and AI for Developing Countries

Epidsode 3 - Medical Imaging and AI for Developing Countries

Herman Oosterwijk, well-known expert in imaging informatics and creator of international health-IT communication standards such as DICOM and HL7, is telling about his personal experience with providing medical support, equipment and training in developing countries, in which wireless communication and AI now also find their use cases.

Jan 10, 201924:51
Episode 2 - The Quest for Medical Data
Jan 03, 201934:52
Episode 1 - Exploring the Horizon!

Episode 1 - Exploring the Horizon!

In this first Episode of Exploring the Horizon! Erik explains the purpose of his podcast and addresses the topics he will discuss. See also his Blog on https://bit.ly/2H7lzNP


Dec 28, 201802:17