Monthly Forums

Kam Kafi, Director of Clinical Strategy and Oncology at Imagia outlined the case for federated learning and work underway between Imagia and collaborators. Spyridon Bakas, Assistant Professor at UPenn,spoke about an open platform he has developed to support federated learning for radiology. Aline Talhouk, Assistant Professor at UBC, spoke about privacy issues and introduce the LEAP platform. The presentations were followed by group discussion on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate, and sharing of resources.

Derek Cool, an interventional radiologist, discussed the clinical need for machine learning in image-guided intervention. Purang Abolmaesumi and Derek Gillies then presented their research work in the area. The talks were followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

Dr. Emily Conant, a radiologist from the University of Pennsylvania, gave the lead-off talk and presented the clinical problems and opportunities where machine learning could make significant impact. She was followed by Professor Nico Karssemeijer from Radboud University in the Netherlands. He has developed important algorithms for breast density and is implementing AI approaches to detection of breast cancer. Grey Kuling, PhD candidate from Sunnybrook Research Institute gave the third talk covering the more technical approach of their research work. The talks were followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

Phedias Diamandis, a neuropathologist and researcher at UHN, discussed the clinical challenges of classifying brain malignancies and the promise of combining ‘omics with digital morphology to help untangle the substantial heterogeneity in these tumours. This was followed by a talk by Wail Ba-Alawi, an affiliate scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, on using multi-omics techniques for cancer biomarker discovery, and by Anglin Dent, an MSc student at University of Toronto, who expanded on Phedias’ talk by discussing progress in applying deep learning approaches to define biologically distinct subpopulations in glioblastoma. The talks were followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

Annette Hay, a hematologist and clinician-scientist, talked about the ExCELLirate platform followed by two researchers, Tricia Cottrell and Alison Cheung, described their immunotherapy imaging machine learning research. This was followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

Sandra Black, a neurologist, talked about the clinical perspective followed by two researchers, Maged Goubran and Lyndon Boone, describing their machine learning research in the area. This was followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

James White, a cardiologist, talked about the clinical perspective followed by two researchers, Fatemeh Zabihollahy and Fumin Guo, described their machine learning research in the area. This was followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Chaya Moskowitz and Matt Hemsley talked about reproducibility and good practices in machine learning research. This was followed by discussion focused on lessons learned, opportunities to collaborate and sharing of resources.

Dr. David Berman, a pathologist, discussed unmet clinical needs in pathology machine learning followed by two researchers, Dr. Ali Bashasati and Dr. Chetan Srinidhi, described their machine learning research work in the area. This was followed by discussion focused on opportunities to collaborate and share resources.

Representatives from Quantitative Imaging for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Brain-CODE and Ontario Health Data Platform presented overviews of their data integration platforms. This was followed by discussion focused on opportunities to collaborate and share resources.