francescociompi.com | 2025
AI AS AN EXPLAINABLE ASSISTANT
March 7, 2025 | I was interviewed (in Dutch) on the role of AI and the future of oncology, for the special edition "AI en de toekomst van de oncologie" (Ai and the future of oncology) of Oncologie.nu. A digital version of the magazine can be found here, and can be downloaded here.
BIGPICTURE NEWSLETTER
December 13, 2024 | As academic lead on AI development within the IMI-funded BigPicture project, I was interviewed on the present and future of AI developments within the project and in the computational pathology community, with focus on foundation models. The interview is available at this link.
INITIAL LECTURE ESDIP ACADEMY
July 2024 | I gave the initial lecture on "Machine Learning for Digital Pathology" to kick off the course on "Basics of computational pathology" (from theory to the development of your first own algorithms), with a primary audience of pathologists, organized by the European Society of Digital Pathology (ESDIP). My lecture (1:15h) is accessible via free registration on the ESDIP Academy platform.
AI FOR GI HEREDITARY TUMORS
June 19, 2024 | I gave an invited lecture on Artificial Intelligence in Colorectal Cancer and Applications to Gastrointestinal (GI) hereditary tumors at the InSIGHT conference in Barcelona. The recording of my talk can be access via the InSIGHT platform.
HEREDITARY ON ICT&HEALTH
June 17, 2024 | Together with my colleagues Annemarie Boleij and Nils Kohn, I was interviewed (in Dutch) by the Dutch magazine ICT & Health on our multidisciplinary work on multimodal AI to investigate interconnections between the gut and the brain (i.e., the but-brain axis) using digital pathology, fMRI and gut microbiome data. This research is part of the EU project HEREDITARY. Link to the interview. Link to the HEREDITARY project.
AI: QUESTIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH PATIENTS
April 18, 2024 | Within the context of the EU-funded HEREDITARY project, I was interviewed by Observa on current developments, challenges and opportunities of medical AI and its potential role in communicating results of AI-based predictions to patients. You can watch part of this interview on YouTube at this link, and under the HEREDITARY Voices section of the HEREDITARY project website.
"CRACKING THE CODE"
March 20, 2024 | I was invited to give an open lecture at the Open Institute of Technology, with a talk titled "Cracking the Code: The Impact of AI in Medical Image Image Analysis". The recording of the event is available on YouTube.
VOX MAGAZINE
March 5, 2024 | The Dutch magazine Vox published an interview on our Ammodo Groundbreaking Science Award. Joint interview with Jeroen van der Laak available on the VOX website.
RADBOUD REPORT ONCOLOGY
2023 | Interview (in Dutch) on my recent research on automated diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma, which we also published on the journal Modern Pathology. Link to the interview (in Dutch), together with the pathologist Michiel Simons. Link to the paper.
CELL REPORTS MEDICINE
2022 | Interview for the journal Cell Reports Medicine on my opinion and experience on the present and future of artificial intelligence in the field of healthcare. Link to the interview.
PICC ALLIANCE
2022 | Presentation that I gave together with Dr. Roberto Salgado for the Pathology Innovation Collaborative Community (PIcc), on the concept of grand challenges and their role for development and validation of biomarkers. Link to the video on YouTube.
MODEL PERFORMANCE METRICS
2022 | Interview/lecture that I gave together with Leander van Eekelen as part of the series on "Bridging the gap between pathology and computer science", organised and led by Alexandra Zuraw. Link to the video on YouTube.
SURF WEEK OF SCIENCE
2022 | Interview in a panel discussion on the potential of artificial intelligence in the field of pathology, as part of the Week of Science organised by SURF, the Dutch High Performance Computing center. Link to the video on YouTube.
AI IN PATHOLOGY
July 8, 2021 | Interview (in Dutch) on the web magazine "Smarthealth" on the hope and the hype of artificial intelligence in digital pathology. Link to the interview.
FACEBOOK AI RESEARCH
2020 | Research of my group in collaboration with Facebook AI Research, presented at the Medical Imaging with Deep Learning conference in 2020, featured on the Facebook AI Research page. Link to the page.
SMARTHEALTH
June 28, 2018 | A younger version of me interviewed (in Dutch) for the web magazine "Smarthealth" on building artificial intelligence algorithms for medical image analysis. Link to the page.