With rapid advancement of innovation and massive involvement of researchers in Artificial Intelligence, it has been contributing solutions to the problems in healthcare industry by benefiting not only the patients but also hospitals and health care practitioners. AI technology and creation bring huge positive impacts in medicine field notably in managing medical records or big data, diagnosis of medical imaging and disease as well as health monitoring. For instance, recent developments include A.I being used in emergency rooms to help doctors detect intracranial bleeding resulting from head trauma and stroke, as well as creating personalized implant solutions through intelligent strategic decisions for surgery. However, technology adoption typically comes with risks, which may compromise clinical settings that require the highest level of accuracy, reliability, security and privacy of healthcare provision and patient data.

On 11 July 2018, I was invited as a discussant for a forum on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – International Developments and Opportunities for Malaysia at Institute of Strategic & International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. The aim of the presentation is to unfold the divergence of technology and healthcare: the benefits, opportunities and risks faced by the healthcare industry due to technology advancement. Further, it aims to discover what is on the horizon for the healthcare industry in Malaysia in the near and distant future considering Malaysia’s challenges and opportunities in enhancing health innovations.

The talk was presented by the Public Health Medicine Specialist Ministry of Health Malaysia, Dr Dhesi Baha Raja. Some of impressive achievements that he has done is invention of spearheaded data managing tools for Health Informatics Programs that organizes birth data and national immunization coverage, and tracks high risk pregnancies in real time. The technology has been implemented in more than 50 hospitals and 800 government and health clinics in Malaysia. Dr Dhesi also won first prize in the Global Impact Competition, which gained a full scholarship by Google and ECM Libra to Singularity University, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Silicon Valley, California. There are so many more of his contribution in AI healthcare hence it was such a pleasure experience for having discussion with him.

The forum is such an eye opening for me on how much AI and technology generally benefited all of us in every way. And as someone who involved in said mentioned areas, I will definitely put on full effort in contributing my expertise in Artificial Intelligence for a better creation in health industries. For more information about the forum or ISIS Malaysia itself, you can visit ISIS Malaysia official website http://www.isis.org.my/

On this upcoming August 2018, Institute of Health Analytics (IHA) will collaborate with Centre for Intelligent Signals & Imaging Research (CISIR) of Universiti Teknologi Petronas to organize Summer School Medical Imaging 2018. This five days summer school that will be held at UTP itself on 6 until 10 August will focus on all aspects of the Computer Aided Diagnosis applied to medical and biomedical data.

It will cover the concept of medical and biomedical image acquisition up to the decision level by revisiting the states of the art “hand crafted” machine learning approaches such as classifier ensemble, Neural networks, logistic regression, KNN applied to HoG, SiFT or SURF features and will finish with the most recent techniques such as Convolution Neural Networks or auto encoders. The school will also have some “hands on sessions” as well as some real results obtained will be shown by the various speakers.

Our target audiences would be biomedical researchers, scientists, engineers, postgraduate students, academician and industry researchers. If you are from our target groups or simply interested in said mentioned areas, I highly recommended you to join this Summer School because there are a lot can be gained and it would definitely benefit you in the future. This Summer School comprises of 5 days with theory and Hands-on practice using Matlab and Python programming practice as well. The course can be divided into three Modules ; especially designed for those who want to attend a specific Module.

Module 1 : Principles of Imaging and Machine Learning (1 Day ,6^th Aug ).

Module 2 : Introduction to Python programming and applications in Machine Learning (2 Days 7^th -8^th August )

Module 3 : Deep Learning and its applications in Medical imaging(1 Day, 9^th August )

There are a lot of experienced speakers that will be joining including me and others such as Prof. Dr Fabrice Meriaudeau, Assoc. Prof. Dr Tong Boon Tang, Assoc. Prof. Dr Désiré Sidibé, Dr Mojdeh Rastgoo and so much other qualified speakers from different area of expertise.

Prof. Dr Fabrice Meriaudeau

Assoc. Prof. Dr Tong Boon Tang

Assoc. Prof. Dr Désiré Sidibé

The registration fee depends on the type of module you preferred to take as stated below:

Registration Fee for Full Course RM 1500

Registration Fee for Module 1 RM 500

Registration Fee for Module 2 RM 800

Registration Fee Module 1& 2 RM 1200

For more information and details about the summer school you can simply check out the official website https://sites.google.com/view/cisirsummerschool2018/home or reach out to Dr. Syed Jamal Safdar Gardezi through his email jamal.gardezi@utp.edu.my or directly call him at +605 368 7888. For any registration and payment inquiries, please email: cape@utp.edu.my  or farhan.zulkefly@utp.edu.my. Need to be mentioned that there are only limited seats available so be sure to confirm your payment and your seat will be booked. So marks your calendar and let’s join our Summer School 2018 to experience the greatest and unique learning experience!

On March 2018, I was given an opportunity to attend the NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) that was being held at Silicon Valley, California. NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the premier AI and deep learning event, providing you with training, insights, and direct access to experts from NVIDIA and other leading organizations.

You will be able to interact with technology experts from NVIDIA and other leading organizations from all over the world. Not only that, you will get valuable insight and hands-on training through hundreds of labs, talks, and research posters. GTC showcases the latest breakthroughs from universities, startups and major enterprises in a wide range of fields such as autonomous vehicles, smart cities, virtual reality and more.

Some of featured topics during the conference including Deep learning & AI, Accelerated Analytics, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Autonomous Machines, HPC & Supercomputing, GPU Virtualization and so much more. There are quite a number of past attendees from giant company like Google, Hewlett Packard, Dell and Facebook.

If you or your company is involved or interested in AI and ML, GTC is the place to be whether you are a developer, a data scientist or a business person. And if you are ever interested to join the next GPU Technology Conference, it will be held on March 18-22, 2019. For more details on pricing and GTC sessions available by your area of interest, you can check out through their official website https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/

On 21 May until 2 June 2018, I was invited as one of the speaker for Global Learning Week at Telkom University Bandung, Indonesia. It was such an amazing experience which is why I want to share some of memorable pictures throughout the whole program at Telkom University.

At Asian African Museum

At the Hotel

During Campus Tour

At Creative Center

Glow 2018 Opening Ceremony

At Open Library

Library

Welcoming Dinner GLOW

Research Sharing Session 1

Research Sharing Session 3

Research Sharing Session 2

Research Sharing by Dr. Ibrahim Shapiai