Dr. Hammad Naveed

.Title: Mitotic nuclei detection using deep learning in resource constrained settings

Abstract:

The mitotic activity index is an important prognostic factor in the diagnosis of cancer. The task of mitosis detection is difficult as the nuclei are microscopic in size and partially labeled, and there are many more non-mitotic nuclei compared to mitotic ones. I will share our model that is resource efficient, works on multiple unseen datasets and its results are interpretable. I will also discuss the role of synthetic medical data in model optimization and with the advent of generative AI how synthetic data will dominate real data going forward.

Biography: 

Dr. Hammad Naveed is currently the Pro-Rector of the University of Central Punjab. He also serves as Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of IT & CS. Dr. Naveed was the founding Director of the Computational Biology Research Lab at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES-FAST), Islamabad Pakistan. He also served as the Director of the Lahore campus of NUCES-FAST from 2021-2023. He received his PhD in Bioinformatics from University of Illinois at Chicago (2012) on a Fulbright Scholarship. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, University of Chicago from 2014-2017. He received his postdoctoral trainings at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai China (2012-2013) and at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (2013-2014). He has published 60+ research papers in leading journals and conferences. He has co-founded ‘Tib.ai’ and ‘AMAL Intelligent Medical Solutions’ for converting research into products for the betterment of the society.