External Event
Biomedical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence (BMIAI) Invited Lecture Series- Reading Race: AI Recognizes Patient's Racial Identity in Medical Images
October 5, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Join UBC's Biomedical Imaging & AI and Data Science & Health Research Clusters in welcoming Dr. Judy Gichoya for a virtual invited lecture.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Judy Gichoya is a multidisciplinary researcher, trained as both an informatician and a clinically active radiologist. She is an assistant professor at Emory university, and works in Interventional Radiology and Informatics. She is seconded to the National Institutes of Health as a data scholar to help with the Open Data Science Platform (OSDP) component of the DSI Africa Initiative to “Harness Data Science for Health In Africa”. Her career focus is on validating machine learning models for health in real clinical settings, exploring explainability, fairness, and a specific focus on how algorithms fail. She has worked on the curation of datasets for the SIIM (Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine) hackathon and ML committee. She volunteers on the ACR and RSNA machine learning committees to support the AI ecosystem to advance development and use of AI in medicine.