The Centre for Digital Tech in Healthcare (CDiTH) and Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at IIIT Hyderabad jointly hosted a distinguished talk by Prof. Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, on 1 April 2025. The talk, titled “AI4Medicine”, delved into the emerging frontiers of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and medical imaging.
Prof. Chellappa began by addressing two fundamental questions that continue to challenge the field: Will AI methods work everywhere? Will they work for everyone? He highlighted that despite the remarkable advances in computer vision and data-driven AI methods, the path toward equitable and generalizable AI solutions in medicine remains complex.
During his talk, Prof. Chellappa explored key issues such as domain and task adaptation, generalization, bias detection and mitigation, predictive model performance, learning from limited data, the role of synthetic data, and federated learning. He also shared insights from his ongoing research, presenting partial solutions and real-world examples that illustrated both the promise and the limitations of current AI approaches in medical contexts.
Prof. Chellappa is a globally renowned researcher in computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and medical imaging. He serves as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he also co-directs the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute. His numerous accolades include the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2020), the IEEE Computer Society Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Distinguished Researcher Award (2023), and the Edwin H. Land Medal (2024). He is a Fellow of multiple leading professional organizations and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering as well as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
The talk was well attended by faculty, researchers, and students from IIIT Hyderabad, sparking engaging discussions on the future of AI applications in healthcare.