CCB Colloquium: James Zou

Guest Presenter:
James Zou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Data Science
Stanford University

Title: Computer vision to phenotype human diseases across physiological and molecular scales.

Abstract: I will present new computer vision algorithms to learn complex morphologies and phenotypes that are important for human diseases. I will illustrate this approach with examples that capture physical scales from macro to micro: 1) video-based AI to assess heart function (Ouyang et al Nature 2020), 2) generating spatial transcriptomics from histology images (He et al Nature BME 2020), 3) and learning morphodynamics of immune cells. Throughout the talk, I’ll illustrate new design principles/tools for human-compatible and robust AI that we developed to enable these technologies (Ghorbani et al. ICML 2020, Abid et al. Nature MI 2020).