Program at a Glance

Tuesday May 30, 2023

8:45-9:00am

Opening Remarks

Metin Akay, Past President, IEEE EMBS and Founding Chair and John S Dunn Endowed Professor, University of Houston, USA

Chwee Teck Lim, NUSS Chair Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore

Paul Sajda, President, IEEE EMBS, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Radiology (Physics) at Columbia University, USA

9:00-11:00am

Symposium #1: Data Science in Preventative and Precision Medicine

Moderator: Metin Akay

Ali Tinazli, Lifespin GmbH, Germany
“Turning Analog Blood Samples into Digital – A Health Data Revolution for Precision Medicine”

Birgit and Frank Eisenhaber, Bioinformatics, A*STAR, Singapore
“Biomolecular mechanism discovery as foundation for precision medicine: Worrying trends after 2000”

Su Bin Lim, Ajou University School of Medicine, South Korea
“Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell Genomic Data for Precision Medicine”

11:00-11:30am Coffee Break

11:30am-1:00pm

Symposium #2: Data Science in Healthcare Informatics 

Moderator: Chwee Teck Lim

Wei Chen, Fudan University, China
“Unobtrusive Sensor Systems and Health Informatics” 

Feng Mengling, NUS, Singapore
“Who are responsible for successful deployment AI technologies in healthcare” 

Liu Nan, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
“Interpretable Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Making” 

1:00-3:00pm Lunch and Poster Session 

3:00-4:30pm

Symposium #3: Data Science in Medical Imaging 

Moderator: Paul Sajda

Andrew Laine, Columbia University, USA
“Data Harmonization: An Imaging-Driven Omics Database / Repository for Retrospective Understanding of COPD and Planning for Future Care” 

Amir Amini, University of Louisville, USA
“4D flow MRI: Efficient Acquisition and Deep Learning Strategies for Assessment of Hemodynamics” 

Lohendran Baskaran, National Heart Centre Singapore
“Heart Attacks and Coronary Artery Disease: Using AI at Multiple Risk Profile Levels” 

Wednesday May 31, 2023

9:00-11:00am

Symposium #4: Healthcare Innovation Industry Trends in ASIA 

Moderator: Ali Bhagat

Lee Hwee Kuan, Deputy Director & Senior PI, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR
“AI driven platform for CT coronary angiography (APOLLO)”

Tyler Hyungtaek Rim, CMO, Mediwhale Inc., Singapore
“Reti-CVD AI-SaMD: from code to commercialisation”

Rex Tan, CTO, Aevice Health, Singapore
“Listening to your body: A bioacoustics route to predictive healthcare”

Arsen Batagov, CTO, Mesh Bio, Singapore

11:00-11:30am Coffee Break

11:30-1:00pm

Symposium #5: Data Science in Neuroscience and Engineering 

Moderator: Yasemin Akay

Rosa Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China
“ Transforming Real-Life Applications in Healthcare and Education with Computational Neuroscience” 

Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, University of Freiburg, Germany
“Data handling in Brain-Computer Interfaces designed for neurorehabilitation” 

Yiwen Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
“ Autonomous Task Learning for Motor Brain Machine Interfaces”

1:00-3:00pm Lunch and Poster Session

3:00-4:30pm

Symposium #6 

Moderator: Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting

Dimitrios Fotiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
“ Computational mechanics in Surgical Procedures” 

Han Leong Goh, Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), Singapore
“ How AI is Changing Healthcare: Real-World Examples from Singapore” 

Dr. Yeo Khung Keong, Deputy Medical Director (Data Science and Innovation) at the National Heart Centre Singapore.
“Integrating AI into clinical care: challenges”

4:30-5:00pm Coffee Break

5:00-6:00pm

Panel

Moderators: Metin Akay and Chwee Teck Lim

6:00pm

Closing Remarks

Metin Akay,  Past President, IEEE EMBS and Paul Sajda, President, IEEE EMBS