WiM Presents: From prototype to practice: Bridging the medical AI implementation gap - April 20, 2026
Thursday 2nd April 2026
Women in MICCAI (WiM) is happy to announce the first webinar in the WiM 2026 Webinar Series:
From prototype to practice: Bridging the medical AI implementation gap
Medical AI systems that demonstrate impressive performance in controlled research settings frequently underperform or fail when deployed in real-world clinical environments. The gap between "proof of concept" and sustained clinical value lies not in algorithmic sophistication, but in the quality infrastructure supporting deployment. This talk presents a practical implementation science framework addressing three critical components: label quality control, real-world monitoring, and post-market surveillance.
Join us on Monday, April 20, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT / 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT / 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM UTC.
Registration (required) is free and open to everyone.
About the speaker:
Dr. Judy Gichoya is the William and Kay Casarella Professor of Radiology at Emory University and leads the HITI (Healthcare AI Innovation and Translational Informatics) lab . Her work is centered around using data science to study health equity. Her group works in 4 areas - building diverse datasets for machine learning (for example the Emory Breast dataset); evaluating AI for bias and fairness; validating AI in the real world setting and training the next generation of data scientists (both clinical and technical students) through hive learning and village mentoring. She serves as the program director for radiology: AI trainee editorial board and the Emory University medical students machine learning elective. She has mentored over 60 students across the world (now successful faculty, post doc, PHD and industry employees) from several institutions around the world. She has received several awards including the most influential radiology researcher in 2022, and is a 2023 Emerging Scholar in the National Academy of Medicine.