Dr. April Khademi
Areas of Academic Interest
Medical image analysis and machine learning
Artificial intelligence in medicine
Spotlight
When April Khademi began her master���s degree, the medical community wasn���t quite ready to embrace or adopt machine learning for medical images. Physicians during this time said the field ���wouldn���t go anywhere.��� Then, along came IBM Watson, the AI platform designed to compete against Jeopardy! champions, and health-care professionals opened their minds to the power of artificial intelligence. ���Now, clinicians are embracing these technologies and looking forward to integrating it into their practice,��� she says. ���It has the potential to change the way medicine is practiced and ultimately improve the quality of care for patients.���
Clinical applications come naturally to Khademi, whose experience in industry and commercialization helps make translation of machine learning algorithms for medical imaging a reality. Her automated MRI analysis algorithms detect new biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases, and characterize breast cancers in digital pathology images ��� work that, up until recently, was manually done using only a microscope. The result is faster, more objective diagnoses, fewer mistakes and, overall, higher quality of care.
Khademi brings that same industrial focus to her teaching, which relies heavily on design-based labs and practical implementation. Her teaching philosophy is encapsulated by the wise words of Albert Einstein: ���Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.���
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���Using technology in medicine to help people and serve a greater good in society is what drives me ��� every single day.���
- Google Canada and Anita Borg Scholar Award
- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Doctoral Scholarship (CGSD)
- Governor General���s Gold Medal
- L'Or辿al-UNESCO for Women in Science Scholarship
- A. Khademi, B.Reiche*, J. DiGregorio*, G. Arezza*, A.R.Moody. ���Multi-Centre, Multi-Disease Brain Extraction for FLAIR MRI���. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- J. Pontalba, T. Gwynne, E. David, K. Jakate, D. Androutsos, A. Khademi. ���Assessing the Need for Colour Normalization in Convolutional Neural Network-Based Nuclei Segmentation Frameworks���, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
- R. S. Geread*, P. Morreale*, B. Dony, E.Bouwer, G. Wood, D. Androutsos, A. Khademi, ���IHC Colour Histograms for Unsupervised Ki67 Proliferation Index Calculation���, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
- S. Duchesne, I. Chouinard, O. Potvin, V. Fonov, A. Khademi, R. Bartha, P. Bellec, D. Louis Collins, M. Descoteaux, R. Hoge, C. R. McCreary, J. Ramirez, C. J.M. Scott, E. E. Smith, S. C. Strother, and Sandra E. Black, for the CIMA-Q group and the CCNA group. ���The Canadian Dementia Imaging Protocol: Harmonizing National Cohorts���. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 49(2), pp.456-465, Feb. 2019.
- O. Commowick , A. Istace , M. Kain , B. Laurent , F. Leray, M. Simon, S. Camarasu Pop, P. Girard, R. Am辿li, J-C Ferr辿, A. Kerbrat, T. Tourdias, F. Cervenansky, T. Glatard, J. Beaumont, S. Doylei, F. Forbes, J. Knight*, A. Khademi, A. Mahbod, C. Wang, R. McKinley, F. Wagner, J. Muschelli, E. Sweeney, E. Roura, X. Llad坦, M.M. Santos, W.P. Santos, A.G. Silva-Filhoq, X. Tomas-Fernandezs, H. Urient, I. Blocht, S. Valverdep, M. Cabezas, F. Javier Vera-Olmos, N. Malpica, C. Guttmann, S. Vukusic, G. Edan, M. Dojat, M. Styner, S. K. Warfield, F. Cotton, C. Barillot, ���Objective Evaluation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation using a Data Management and Processing Infrastructure���, Nature Scientific Reports, 8(13650), pp1-17, Sept. 2018
- Editor, Frontiers: Biomedical Engineering Research Topic,
- Scientific Program Committee Member, Artificial Intelligence for Digital Pathology workshop, ICPR 2020, 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (AIDP 2020)
- Organizing Committee Member, Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2021
- Investigator, Neuroimaging Platform,
- Affiliate Scientist, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael���s Hospital
- Member, , St. Michael���s & 91心頭利
- Senior Scientist, Innovation Specialist, GE Healthcare���s Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence (PICOE), MaRS