20 academics presented their ideas on how to fix the world around us. Each had just three minutes for their pitch. Among those finalists was Marcin Wierzbinski, a scientific programmer on the Sano Science team.  

Lesser Poland Night of Scientists 2022 - Sano among the exhibitors! 

Paper presentation and co-organization of workshops – these are activities which Sano handled during the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, held from September 18th to 22nd in Resort World Convention Centre Singapore. The annual MICCAI conference attracts the world’s leading biomedical scientists, engineers, and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted intervention. 

At the beginning of September, the Smart Work for Smart Life project started a new phase. After months of work and building the SW4SL application, we can start to test our application and collect the data.  

During summertime, we were honored to be visited by prof. Byung Suk Lee. He cooperated mostly with dr Ahmed Hamed and the Clinical Data Science research group, but we all had the opportunity to learn from his experience.  

The first edition of Sano Summer Workshops: the practical side of AI in medicine is over! Amazing & truly inspiring time above us, time for summing up! 

On Sunday, 4th September, the 11th edition of the charity Poland Business Run took place in Kraków. Sano Science team had got 2 representations: Sano- Innovation Team & Sano- Passion Team! We’re proud of them!

With the beginning of August, Maciej Malawski, PhD became the new Sano’s director. At the same time, Tomasz Gubala was announced as Executive Director. Congratulations and good luck in the new positions!  

The five days of wonderful time, inspirational lectures, vivid talks, and practical workshops is over. The brain issues, neuroscience stuff, neuroimaging cases and computer sciences were widely discussed in beautiful surroundings of Lipari Island. The vibe and the energy were amazing! That was delightful to meet again in person and have possibility to networking and exchange the ideas.

We are happy to spread the information that yesterday four Sano Science students graduated from the Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie with a master’s degree in Computer Science – Data Science!

As Sano Science we were present at the 17th International Summer School on Training And Research On Testing TAROT 2022. Alfredo Ibias from Jose Sousa's Personal Health Data Science team had a presentation about Sano’s work and projects.

Great news for the beginning of July!

We are happy to announce that paper “Multi-institutional evaluation of a deep learning model for fully automated detection of aortic aneurysms in contrast and non-contrast CT” authored by Arkadiusz Sitek with colleagues from IBM and vRad Virtual  Radiologic (Yiting Xie, Benedikt Graf, Parisa Farzam, Brian Baker, Christine Lamoureux) received poster award cum laude at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego.

It is our pleasure to inform you that paper written by Przemysław Korzeniowski, Arkadiusz Sitek, Szymon Płotka (all from Sano), and Robert Brawura Biskupski Samaha entitled “Virtual Reality Simulator for Fetoscopic Spina Bifida Repair Surgery” has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan. The IEEE/RSJ IROS is a top-tier conference (A rank) in Robotics.

We are happy to share that Arkadiusz Sitek, Aneta Lisowska and Szymon Płotka from Health Informatics Research Group are among the authors of the paper entitled: “FetReg2021: A Challenge on Placental Vessel Segmentation and Registration in Fetoscopy”.

A special edition of the leading Data Science event in Poland dedicated to Machine Learning will take place on 21st-22nd June in Warsaw.

On June 14, the second edition of the “AI in Health” conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first event on such a large scale in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated to artificial intelligence and innovation in health. Sano will be actively take part in the event!

Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2022 is behind us. It was a great time and huge success! Time for a short summary.

Our scientists, in recent cooperation with POLVAS (Polish Vasculitis Consortium), created two AI models to predict the course of ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), a rare autoimmune disease, which, when left untreated, may cause death or severe deterioration of patient's quality of life.

The end of May provided an opportunity to meet in the office at the Sano Center to participate in training together. On Friday, 27th of May, all Sano employees had a possibility to take part in the session entitled: "Introduction to Official and Intercultural Communication Etiquette Training". After the lecture and Q&A session, we had a group work and occasion to discuss current issues.