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Walter de Back 👨🏻‍💻

@wdeback

computational pathology • deep learning • medical imaging • @AIgnostics

 Germany
wdeback.gitlab.io
Joined July 2014
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Helmholtz AI@helmholtz_ai15 Dec 2020
⚠️ PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS WANTED ⚠️ @HelmholtzMunich launches the Institute of AI for Health #AI4H, a European #AI #ML hub aiming to transform the future of medicine. Hear more about this unique opportunity from director @fabian_theis & APPLY NOW! 👉 bit.ly/joinAI4H
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Wouter Bulten@wouterbulten29 Sep 2020
Join us on the 8th of October for the virtual PANDA workshop at @MICCAI2020, with the first results of our challenge on prostate cancer grading: 11.000 biopsies, 1.000 teams & pathologist-level AI models! More info: panda.grand-challenge.org/
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Ali Eslami
@arkitus12 Jul 2020
Replying to @irinavlh
@irinavlh, @DaniloJRezende and I are presenting a tutorial at ICML on 'Representation Learning Without Labels'. Jul 13, 9 AM to 12 PM and 7 PM to 10 PM (BST) icml.cc/virtual/2020/tutoria… icml.cc/Conferences/2020/Sch… Drop by to find out what Plato has to do with VAEs, GANs and SimCLR!
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Working at the intersection of #AI and #Health? Here some overview articles I found useful: (1) Comparison of deep learning performance against health-care professionals (Lancet Digital Oncology 2019): thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/… (Note: major criticism of validation standards)
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Erik Bekkers
@erikjbekkers14 Apr 2020
Interested in researching AI methodology from a geometric view point? We have a vacancy for 2 PhD positions in the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (@wellingmax, @UvA_Amsterdam) on geometric machine learning for medical image analysis! (Open until May 6) uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/…
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Martin Weigert (maweigert.bsky.social)@martweig8 Apr 2020
Interested in doing a PhD at the intersection of machine learning, biological image analysis, and computational microscopy? Then join my group @epfl in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland - 1 week left to apply! epfl.ch/education/phd/progra… Please RT
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Distill@distillpub11 Feb 2020
Growing Neural Cellular Automata -- A new Distill article by @zzznah, @RandazzoEttore, @eyvindn and @drmichaellevin distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
Growing Neural Cellular Automata

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata model of morphogenesis, able to both grow and regenerate specific patterns.

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morpheus@morpheus_lab30 Oct 2019
Not in Okiwana? See our renewed Morpheus tutorials for self-paced learning morpheus.gitlab.io/courses/
Courses | Morpheus

Courses | Morpheus

Multicellular Simulation

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Peter Steinbach@psteinb_13 Sep 2019
You don‘t see this every day: predictions from a ConvLSTM including uncertainties!! The team from @UFZ_de mentored by @kiravino and @wdeback reach for the Crown Jewels in data driven science. #d3hack2019
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Alvaro Köhn-Luque@AlvaroKohn9 Sep 2019
Replying to @drmichaellevin
I recommend you @morpheus_lab those type of simulations can be run with very little effort. You can start here: morpheus.gitlab.io/blog/2018…
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Thomas Kipf
@tkipf18 Oct 2018
DeepMind is releasing their GraphNets library: github.com/deepmind/graph_ne… - a very comprehensive and easy-to-use library for training graph (neural) networks and related models
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Martin Weigert (maweigert.bsky.social)@martweig14 Aug 2019
Want to detect and segment densely packed nuclei in noisy microscopy stacks? Then have a look at StarDist, which we just extended to 3D! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1908.03636 Code: github.com/mpicbg-csbd/stard… @uschmidt83 @haesleinhuepf @TheGeneMyers #WeAreStarDist
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MPI-CBG Dresden@mpicbg2 Jul 2019
First and new realistic 3D model of the liver lobule since the year 1949. Publication @eLife of the research lab of @mpicbg director Marino Zerial with first author @andresm_1986 & collaboration with MPI-PKS & @tudresden_de. mpi-cbg.de/press/press-relea… elifesciences.org/articles/4…
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morpheus@morpheus_lab13 May 2019
Beautiful work studying the spread of HIV-1 through tissues -- they used ABC (pyabc.readthedocs.io) to fit Morpheus models (morpheus.gitlab.io) to experimental data of 2D/3D collagen assays. Now out in Nat. Comm. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Geoffrey Hinton
@geoffreyhinton21 Apr 2019
Inman is always thought-provoking.
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Replying to @geoffreyhinton @NandoDF @JeffDean @ylecun @TheOfficialACM
Great to see Inman Harvey mentioned here. I encourage all to (re)read his though-provoking essay "Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver". Pages 11-32 in: dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstre…
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Pedro Domingos
@pmddomingos5 Apr 2019
Three good reasons to use black-box AI systems: science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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Peter Steinbach@psteinb_26 Mar 2019
Want to boost your science with deep learning? Want to be mentored by 2 deep learning experts & write a paper? Then please apply: indico.mpi-cbg.de/e/d3hack20… #d3hack2019 @TensorFlow #keras @PyTorch @TFBestPractices @fchollet @krasul @florianjug @GuidoJuckeland @csbdresden @mpicbg
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morpheus@morpheus_lab7 Mar 2019
And: How to execute shell and python scripts as part of a Morpheus simulation. morpheus.gitlab.io/blog/2019…
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morpheus@morpheus_lab7 Mar 2019
New post: How to generate, export and visualize cell lineage trees using @morpheus_lab: morpheus.gitlab.io/blog/2019…
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Eric Topol
@EricTopol19 Jan 2019
Why do we need #AI in medicine? nature.com/articles/s41591-0… The lede for my review @NatureMedicine #OA, free until Feb 7th
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