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Melanie Ganz

@melanieganzben1.bsky.social

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Associate prof at DIKU UCPH; Researcher at NRU Rigshospitalet; interested in neuroimaging, MRI/PET, data sharing/BIDS, motion correction, bias and fairness in ML

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Jan 15

🎉Today we will celebrate! I’m deeply grateful to @lundbeckfonden
for funding our collaborative project, "TRUSTMIND: AI in Mental Health – Ensuring Evaluation, Trustworthiness, Ethical and Legal Considerations"! 🙌
lundbeckfonden.com/news/120-mil...

120 million DKK for Interdisciplinary Brain Research

Five Danish researchers are set to receive grants of between DKK 20 and 30 million for neuroscience projects as part of the Lundbeck Foundation’s Collaborative Projects programme.

lundbeckfonden.com

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Jun 18

⏰ Please note that abstracts are not mandatory, so you have a couple more days to submit.

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Jun 18

You still have time to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025 focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.

Check out the important dates and details:
👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...

#FAIMI #MICCAI2025 #MedicalImaging #FairAI #HealthcareAI #AIethics

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Jun 4

Also, if you’re passionate about advancing fair AI, consider volunteering as a reviewer to help shape the future of this critical field forms.gle/VppB8HkzsyJL...

#FAIMI #MICCAI2025 #MedicalImaging #FairAI #HealthcareAI #AIethics

Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging

If you would like to become a reviewer for the FAIMI workshop, please fill these form:

forms.gle

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨MICCAI workshop 🚨

Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.

Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

@benglocker.bsky.social

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

🤓 Reviewers needed
And If you want to contribute to the field, you can volunteer as reviewer as well: forms.gle/VppB8HkzsyJL...

Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging

If you would like to become a reviewer for the FAIMI workshop, please fill these form:

forms.gle

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

📝 Submission Guidelines:
Detailed submission instructions are available on our workshop website: faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the MICCAI proceedings.

Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging

MICCAI 2025 Workshop

faimi-workshop.github.io

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

📢 Why Submit?
Showcase your research to a global audience at one of the premier conferences in medical imaging.
Engage with experts in the field, including our esteemed advisory panel and activity committee members.
Contribute to the advancement of ethical and fair AI practices in healthcare.

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

We invite innovative papers that explore:

Fair algorithms and methodologies in medical imaging AI
Bias detection and mitigation strategies
Ethical implications of AI in healthcare
Case studies demonstrating fair AI practices in medical imaging

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

🎯 Workshop Focus:
FAIMI is dedicated to addressing the critical issues of fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

📅 Important Dates:
(All dates are Anywhere on Earth)
Workshop day: Sept 23, 2025 (in-person only event)
Abstract / placeholder: June 11, 2025
Full Paper Deadline: June 25, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: July 16, 2025
Camera-ready Version: July 30, 2025

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 22

🚀 Submit Your Work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025! 🚀

We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · May 2

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Brice Ozenne, Melanie Ganz, et al:

A sensitivity analysis of preprocessing pipelines: Toward a solution for multiverse analyses

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · May 1

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elodie Germani, Camille Maumet, et al:

On the validity of fMRI mega-analyses using data processed with different pipelines

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 6

🙄 I know I am playing an old fiddle here, but I am just going to drop this here:

👉 commission.europa.eu/topics/resea...

And again 🇩🇰 is one of the happiest places in the world! Come and visit us in Copenhagen to check this place out!

#neuroimaging #machinelearning #healthresearch

Choose Europe: advance your research career in the EU

Move to the EU as a researcher or scientist. Discover how to relocate, find jobs and funding, and enjoy Europe's excellent quality of life.

commission.europa.eu

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · May 6

Choose Europe: advance your research career in the EU

Move to the EU as a researcher or scientist. Discover how to relocate, find jobs and funding, and enjoy Europe's excellent quality of life.

commission.europa.eu

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Apr 11

🥚 🐰 🌷 Have some time coming up during the Easter holidays? Why not polish your CV and send it my way? The deadline for the Postdoc in Trustworthy AI at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen is not until the 22 April 2025.

👉 So check the call out: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Mar 28

@benglocker.bsky.social - you are the only one on BlueSky so far ;-)

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Mar 28

📩 If you plan to submit, please contact Veronika Cheplygina ([email protected]) so we can start recruiting reviewers :)

#FAIMI #Fairness #MedicalImaging #AI #ML

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Mar 28

We invite submissions for our special issue on fairness in AI for medical imaging in MELBA, an open-access journal at the intersection of machine learning & biomedical imaging. Topics include bias assessment, fairness definitions, ethical and legal considerations, bias mitigation, and more.

Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 [DEADLINE EXTENDED to 21 April] Call for Papers: Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (MELBA Journal Special Issue)

Full Call for Papers available at: faimi-workshop.github.io/2024-melba/

📅 Submission deadline EXTENDED until April 21, 2025 (rolling review—early submissions encouraged).

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Mar 26

Remember that we received some funding in January?
I am finally ready to hire people to work on TRUSTMIND. 😊
So if you are a PhD/PostDoc that's interested in bias and fairness in machine learnign for mental health, check out this position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... and join me in Copenhagen!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Mar 23

The NIH is canceling already-funded research on inequality, telling scholars that their studies "are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand or knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not advance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness"

Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · Mar 20

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.

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Ruben Dörfel @rdoerfel.bsky.social · Mar 18

We found that baseline brain age performs similarly to grey matter volume in terms of diagnostic and prognostic performance and does not strongly correlate with clinical outcomes such as memory decline or gray matter atrophy. (4/7)

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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · Mar 21

@rdoerfel.bsky.social has again done some really cool work on brain age and taken a closer look if brain age is even a valid concept as clinical biomarker. Turns out... 👇

Ruben Dörfel @rdoerfel.bsky.social · Mar 18

I'm happy to share our latest pre-print on assessing the clinical validity of brain age as a biomarker of aging-related diseases and structural and memory decline in the brain!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Prediction of brain age using structural magnetic resonance imaging: A comparison of clinical validity of publicly available software packages

Predicting brain age from structural magnetic resonance images is commonly used as a biomarker of biological aging and brain health. Ideally, as a clinically valid biomarker, brain age should indicate...