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My MICCAI Journey

Maruf Adewole PhD

Executive Director, Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Lagos, Nigeria

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, United States

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A little about myself..

  • B.Tech – Physics Electronics
    • Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria (2013)
  • M.Sc – Medical Physics
    • University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, (2016)
  • PhD – Medical Physics
    • University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria (2024)
  • Postdoc – Radiology
    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Currently)

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My MICCAI Journey started in 2022..

  • Joined the Brain Tumour Segmentation (BraTS) Team
  • Travel too expensive,
  • Travel award mostly for people from Asia.

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.. and in 2023

  • Launched the BraTS-Africa Challenge
  • Got the Travel Award but IRCC says NO
  • Attended virtually

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…then MICCAI Comes to Africa in 2024

  • Second year of running BraTS-Africa
  • Got the Travel award
  • Finally met the BraTS team in person

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And Now,

  • Third year of running BraTS-Africa
  • Travel award or not, I’m have to get myself to MICCAI
  • MIRASOL and BraTS-Africa co-organizer
  • Co-author on 5 papers, submitted to main conference and workshops

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So, What has MICCAI done for me?

  • Expanded my thinking
  • Learned new concepts
  • Met really awesome people
  • Improved my research

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Maximizing MICCAI

  • Attend conference for the sole purpose of learning
  • Be a participant
    • Not a bench warmer
    • Submit papers
    • Ask questions
    • Contribute
  • Visit each poster stand
  • Strike up conversations, make new friends
  • Explore the city
  • Get good sleep during the night

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Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MAI Lab)

Lagos, Nigeria

madewole@mailab.io

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