Ten Years Kimia Lab
On December 22, 2023, I closed down Kimia Lab at the University of Waterloo. The past ten years have been the most turbulent and most rewarding years in my academic career, and Kimia Lab was in the center of it…
Ethics in the AI Publishing World — Is Repackaging Ideas Plagiarism?
In the past, intellectual thieves were relatively straightforward and would simply copy well-written phrases from other works, sometimes from multiple sources, to create a publication…
The Pathology Moonshot — We need 5 Million WSIs to Train a Foundation Model
The term foundation model (FM) in AI generally refers to large-scale (very deep) language models that can be utilized as a pre-trained and fine-tuned backbone (foundation) for many different applications…
On Clinical Utility of Image Search
Content-based image retrieval (short CBIR) has been around for more than three decades. Before 2012, when deep learning achieved its first major successes, CBIR methods were rather primitive mainly due to the “semantic gap”
The Surge of Sensationalist COVID-19 AI Research
There seems to be a tendency to hastily use imperfect and questionable data to train an AI solution for COVID-19, a dangerous trend that not only does not help any patient or physician but also damages the reputation of the AI community…
Plenteous AI, Exiguous Medical Data
The astonishing success of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years in solving complex recognition problems has brought about a disruptive and ongoing revolution. However, one shouldn’t overlook how much of the foundational work that has culminated in this exciting new technology goes back many years…
The AI Imposter
A new phenomenon seems to have emerged in recent months, if not in the past two or three years, where some people, both in industry and academia, present themselves as artificial intelligence (AI) experts without having the required competencies…