[SisonkeBiotik] Talk - Computer Vision and Medical Imaging

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Interested in Machine Learning šŸ¤– and Healthcare šŸ©ŗ in Africa? šŸŒ

Join us, SisonkeBiotik, for a talk at our monthly meet on Thursday 4th November Ā šŸ“… at 18:00 GMT/UTC +2hĀ  šŸ••




Please RSVP for the talk with the link below:

[https://bit.ly/SisonkeBiotik_Talk_RSVP]


SCHEDULE:

18:00 - 18:10Ā  Ā Ā Ā  Welcome and community updateĀ 

18:10 - 18:45Ā  Ā Ā Ā  TalkĀ 

18:45 - 19:00 Ā Ā Ā  Questions andĀ  general discussionĀ 

19:00 - ???Ā Ā Ā  Interest group and social breakout roomsĀ 


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TALK

Jonathan Gerrand [https://bit.ly/Jonathan_Gerrand]


Seeing things clearly: Image understanding through hard-attention and reasoning with structured knowledge


In this talk, Jonathan aims to frame the current challenges of explainability and understanding in ML-driven approaches to image processing, and their potential solution through explicit inference techniques.


Jonathan works as a senior data scientist at EXPLORE-AI and is a member of the RAIL lab at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research is focused on capturing higher-order reasoning behind diagnostic outcomes in radiological investigations using agent-based methods; allowing learning models to better understand and articulate knowledge in a clinical setting.


PROJECT UPDATES

1) Machine Learning and Healthcare in Africa: Bibliometric Study and Systematic Review [https://bit.ly/bibliometric_study_and_systematic_review]


2) Privacy Preserving AI for African Health Datasets


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RECORDINGS

Missed our previous talks? Subscribe and watch recordingsā€¦ [https://www.sisonkebiotik.africa/talks]


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SisonkeBiotik is an open and inclusive community of researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts at the intersection of Machine Learning and Healthcare working together to build capacity and drive forward grassroots research initiatives in Africa for Machine Learning and Healthcare ā¤ļøšŸŒ


Every week on a Thursday at 18:00 UTC/GMT +2hĀ  šŸ••Ā  there is an open meet to discuss and develop research initiatives - as well as provide peer-to-peer mentorship. Drop by here if you are interested in getting involved in projects or if you would like to provide or receive mentorship - [https://bit.ly/SisonkeBiotik-Discord-Chat].Ā 


Every month we aim to provide a larger social meet on an ad-hoc Thursday at 18:00 UTC/GMT +2hĀ  šŸ•• Ā this is an open meet towards developing the community. This includes (but is not limited to) opportunities for community members to:Ā 

  • present talks on research or topics of interest šŸŽ¤

  • an open forum for discussion šŸ—£ļø and brainstorming šŸ§ šŸŒ©ļø

  • social activities šŸ›¼šŸŖ˜

  • engage with visitors šŸ›ø to the community


Keep an eye on our Discord announcements channel or our mailing list to know when the next monthly social meet is.Ā 


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Keen to get involved at SisonkeBiotik?Ā 


Visit us at [https://www.sisonkebiotik.africa]

Join the SisonkeBiotik Discord [https://bit.ly/SisonkeBiotik-Discord-Chat]

Sign up to the mailing list [https://bit.ly/SisonkeBiotik-Mailing-List]

Or complete a membership form [https://bit.ly/SisonkeBiotik-Membership-Form]Ā 


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SisonkeBiotik is a fork of the Masakhane research community model - find their repository here [http://bit.ly/Masakhane-Repo] and fork your own community today =D

or fork the SisonkeBiotik community repository here [http://bit.ly/SisonkeBiotik-Repo]



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