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A running feed of what I'm reading and listening to — articles, podcasts, audiobooks, and posts.
SAROS (900 annotated CT scans) and TotalSegmentator features/segmentations across 126,000 NLST CT scans — a boost for medical-imaging AI research.
A survey of the fast-growing field of interventional needle robots — Quantum Surgical, XACT, Perfint, NDR, Mendaera and a dozen more — and what to call them.
A robotic assistant that supports safe navigation and needle positioning from imaging data for percutaneous biopsies and interventions.
New cancer-care software for image-guided liver ablation — biomechanical deformable registration and AI segmentation to assess and improve ablative margins, plus the RayImaging platform.
From prototyping to production, supply chain to packaging — ISO 13485:2016-certified medtech contract manufacturing.
On the ergonomic toll of sonography and HERA, a robot-assisted ultrasound solution (Life Science Robotics) that lets the sonographer steer the probe by joystick.
Our team on the Nagoya University campus — IPCAI 2026.
Just back from IPCAI 2026 in Nagoya — and still smiling.
IPCAI — the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions — is one of the most selective venues where surgery, imaging and AI meet. This year it was hosted at the Toyoda Auditorium of Nagoya University, Japan (2–4 July), co-located with CARS.
I was fortunate to be part of three papers our team presented:
Personalization of Liver Microwave Ablation Simulation — Best Presentation (Audience Choice) Award 🏆. Presented by Francesco Dettori. Authors: Francesco Dettori, Ilias Nahmed, Michel Duprez, Juan Verde, Pablo Alvarez, Stéphane Cotin.
A Digital Twin for Microwave Liver Treatment Re-planning. Presented by Ilias Nahmed. Authors: Ilias Nahmed, Francesco Dettori, Juan Verde, Michel Duprez, Pablo Alvarez, Stéphane Cotin.
DefSynUS — real-time, patient-specific intrahepatic vessel identification. Presented by Karl-Philippe Beaudet. Authors: Karl-Philippe Beaudet, Yordanka Velikova, Sidaty El Hadramy, Nassir Navab, Philippe Cattin, Juan Verde, Stéphane Cotin.
I hold a research affiliation with Inria's MIMESIS team, and this work is part of our shared mission there — patient-specific, image-guided liver interventions.
Beyond our own work, what struck me was where the field is heading. A few threads I followed closely:
Surgical AI agents & LLMs moving into navigation and decision support
Digital twins and the "OR of the future" — from photorealistic operating-room twins to simulating rare events
Ultrasound and needle guidance getting smarter and more real-time
3D reconstruction, registration & navigation, including AI-driven endovascular guidance
Segmentation & domain adaptation, increasingly powered by synthetic data
But honestly, the best part was the people — long corridor conversations, poster debates, and reconnecting with the modeling/simulation and image-guided-surgery groups we work with, plus meeting teams from across Europe, the US and Asia tackling the same hard problems. That community is what keeps this field moving.
Grateful to the co-authors, our partners and the organizers — and to Nagoya for the hospitality (and the lawns).
Onward: making interventions more precise, more personalized, and more image-guided.
A market overview of ultrasound's momentum — AI-enabled imaging, handheld point-of-care devices, and expanding oncology, cardiology and vascular applications.
The phase-3 RCT shows thermal ablation reduced morbidity, mortality and hospital stay, with non-inferior overall survival versus surgery for small-size CRLM.
SpineUs builds a full 3D surface reconstruction of the spine as the probe moves, with optical tracking and no radiation — a foundation for radiation-free navigation.
A patient-specific digital twin that simulates microwave-ablation heating to support treatment planning.
Argues for regulatory oversight of large language models and generative AI in medicine.
An overview of histotripsy, which mechanically destroys target tissue with focused ultrasound — no heat, no radiation, no incision.
Using image fusion, the minimal ablative margin independently predicts local progression — a key quality metric for ablation.
An accessible survey of how deep learning is being applied across ultrasound imaging and clinical workflow.
A randomized trial comparing robotic and freehand needle placement for CT-guided liver-tumor ablation.
The landmark trial protocol comparing thermal ablation with surgical resection for colorectal liver metastases.
Reconstructs 3D ultrasound volumes from 2D freehand sweeps using deep learning, with no external tracking hardware.
A single reinforcement-learning algorithm that reaches superhuman play in chess, shogi and Go purely through self-play.
A comprehensive review of the mechanisms and design trade-offs behind steerable needles for percutaneous intervention.
The consensus standard defining terminology and reporting for image-guided tumor ablation — a foundational reference for the field.
A foundational review of ultrafast, plane-wave ultrasound and the imaging modes it unlocked, including elastography and functional ultrasound.
A historian's portrait of the last Mexica emperor and his world, at the collision of Mesoamerica and Europe.
An Audible Original, full-cast fantasy set in a near-future Mexico City steeped in Mexica mythology.
A lecture course on the myths and legends of the Middle Ages — Arthur, Robin Hood, the Grail — and the history behind them.
Orwell's satirical allegory of a revolution betrayed, in a Spanish full-cast adaptation.
The finale of Sanderson's Wax & Wayne arc in the Mistborn/Cosmere universe — allomantic action in an industrial-age world.
A concise guide blending ikigai (purpose) and kaizen (continuous improvement) for goals, habits and focus.
A dramatized Spanish Audible Original of Agatha Christie's first novel and Poirot's debut case.
The conclusion of Sanderson's Skyward series — Spensa's fight beyond the stars in a YA sci-fi saga.
Book 3 of Skyward — Spensa ventures across the galaxy to uncover her cytonic powers.
Book 2 of Skyward — a fighter-pilot heroine defends her people while uncovering deeper secrets.
A stark conversation on the accelerating pace of AI and what its builders expect it to mean for society, work and safety.
The WWE icon turned Hollywood actor on discipline, reinvention, and life on and off the ring.
NVIDIA's CEO on the AI compute boom, GPUs, and where the technology is heading.
An NYT podcast on why everyday gadgets and consumer tech may be getting more expensive.
The developer behind a viral open-source AI agent on building autonomous coding tools in the agent era.
NVIDIA's CEO on becoming a four-trillion-dollar company and leading the AI revolution.
The NASA astronomer on the cosmos, space science, and how the universe works.
The former Google X executive on AI's risks and his warning about the years just ahead.
The FDA's official podcast, with a veterinary expert, on the New World screwworm threat and the response to it.
The FDA's official podcast on the agency's current priorities and direction.
The neuroscientist on the brain, the mind, and provocative questions at the edge of consciousness.
The anthropologist and author on Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire, and its legacy in the modern world.