Karim Lekadir

Ramon y Cajal Researcher and Director of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab at the UB

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Karim Lekadir in an ICREA Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College London and was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. He investigates new data science techniques for trustworthy and ethical artificial intelligence in medicine. He has been PI in 12 EU-funded projects, coordinated 5 Horizon projects, and was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to investigate new AI techniques tailored to resource-limited settings.EarlyCause H2020 project, which investigates multi-morbidity using experimental and data science approaches. He is WP leader in the LongITools H2020 project, developing a mobile app for cardio-metabolic risk prediction. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

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Effects of Pre-and Postnatal Early-Life Stress on Internalizing, Adiposity, and Their Comorbidity

2024   |   Serena Defina, Tom Woofenden, Vilte Baltramonaityte, Carmine M Pariante, Karim Lekadir, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Fadila Serdarevic, Henning Tiemeier, Esther Walton, Janine F Felix, Charlotte AM Cecil, EarlyCause Consortium   |   Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 63 (2), 255-265, 2024

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Towards Learning Contrast Kinetics with Multi-Condition Latent Diffusion Models

2024   |   Richard Osuala, Daniel Lang, Preeti Verma, Smriti Joshi, Apostolia Tsirikoglou, Grzegorz Skorupko, Kaisar Kushibar, Lidia Garrucho, Walter HL Pinaya, Oliver Diaz, Julia Schnabel, Karim Lekadir   |   arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13890, 2024

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Cohort Profile: The Cardiovascular Research Data Catalogue

2024   |   Jaakko Reinikainen, Tarja Palosaari, Alejandro J Canosa-Valls, Carsten O Schmidt, Rita Wissa, Sucharitha Chadalavada, Laia Codó, Josep Lluís Gelpí, Bijoy Joseph, Aad van der Lugt, Elsa Pacella, Steffen E Petersen, Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Liliana Szabo, Tanja Zeller, Teemu Niiranen, Karim Lekadir, Kari Kuulasmaa   |   International Journal of Epidemiology 53 (1), dyad175, 2024

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A structural heart-brain axis mediates the association between cardiovascular risk and cognitive function

2024   |   Akshay Jaggi, Eleanor LS Conole, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Polyxeni Gkontra, Celeste McCracken, Liliana Szabo, Stefan Neubauer, Steffen E Petersen, Simon R Cox, Karim Lekadir   |   Imaging Neuroscience 2, 1-18, 2024

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Aligning Cancer Research Priorities in Europe with Recommendations for Conquering Cancer: A Comprehensive Analysis

2024   |   Denis Horgan, Marc Van den Bulcke, Umberto Malapelle, Nicola Normanno, Ettore D Capoluongo, Arsela Prelaj, Carmelo Rizzari, Aliki Stathopoulou, Jaya Singh, Marta Kozaric, France Dube, Manuel Ottaviano, Stefania Boccia, Gabriella Pravettoni, Ivana Cattaneo, Núria Malats, Reinhard Buettner, Karim Lekadir, Francesco de Lorenzo, Patricia Blanc, Catherine Alix-Panabieres, Sara Badreh, Paul Hofman, Eric Solary, Ruggero De Maria   |   Healthcare 12 (2), 259, 2024

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Tackling the implementation gap for the uptake of NGS and advanced molecular diagnostics into healthcare systems

2024   |   Denis Horgan, Marc Van den Bulcke, Umberto Malapelle, Giancarlo Troncone, Nicola Normanno, Ettore D Capoluongo, Arsela Prelaj, Carmelo Rizzari, Dario Trapani, Jaya Singh, Marta Kozaric, John Longshore, Manuel Ottaviano, Stefania Boccia, Gabriella Pravettoni, Ivana Cattaneo, Núria Malats, Reinhard Buettner, Karim Lekadir, Francesco de Lorenzo, Paul Hofman, Ruggero De Maria   |   Heliyon 10 (1), 2024

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New implementation of data standards for AI research in precision oncology. Experience from EuCanImage.

2024   |   Teresa Garcia-Lezana, Maciej Bobowicz, Santiago Frid, Michael Rutherford, Mikel Recuero, Katrine Riklund, Aldar Cabrelles, Marlena Rygusik, Lauren Fromont, Roberto Francischello, Emanuele Neri, Salvador Capella, Fred Prior, Jonathan Bona, Pilar Nicolas, Martijn PA Starmans, Karim Lekadir, Jordi Rambla, EuCanImage   |   medRxiv, 2024.03. 15.24303032, 2024

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Data synthesis and adversarial networks: A review and meta-analysis in cancer imaging

2023   |   Richard Osuala, Kaisar Kushibar, Lidia Garrucho, Akis Linardos, Zuzanna Szafranowska, Stefan Klein, Ben Glocker, Oliver Diaz, Karim Lekadir   |   Medical Image Analysis 84, 102704, 2023

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Deep learning segmentation of the right ventricle in cardiac mri: The m&ms challenge

2023   |   Carlos Martín-Isla, Víctor M Campello, Cristian Izquierdo, Kaisar Kushibar, Carla Sendra-Balcells, Polyxeni Gkontra, Alireza Sojoudi, Mitchell J Fulton, Tewodros Weldebirhan Arega, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Lei Li, Xiaowu Sun, Yasmina Al Khalil, Di Liu, Sana Jabbar, Sandro Queirós, Francesco Galati, Moona Mazher, Zheyao Gao, Marcel Beetz, Lennart Tautz, Christoforos Galazis, Marta Varela, Markus Hullebrand, Vicente Grau, Xiahai Zhuang, Domenec Puig, Maria A Zuluaga, Hassan Mohy-ud-Din, Dimitris Metaxas, Marcel Breeuwer, Rob J Van Der Geest, Michelle Noga, Stephanie Bricq, Mark E Rentschler, Andrea Guala, Steffen E Petersen, Sergio Escalera, Jose F Rodriguez Palomares, Karim Lekadir   |   IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023

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Depression, cardiometabolic disease, and their co-occurrence after childhood maltreatment: an individual participant data meta-analysis including over 200,000 participants

2023   |   Camille Souama, Femke Lamers, Yuri Milaneschi, Christiaan H Vinkers, Serena Defina, Linda Garvert, Frederike Stein, Tom Woofenden, Katharina Brosch, Udo Dannlowski, Henrike Galenkamp, Ron de Graaf, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Anja Lok, Bas B van Rijn, Henry Völzke, Charlotte AM Cecil, Janine F Felix, Hans J Grabe, Tilo Kircher, Karim Lekadir, Margreet Ten Have, Esther Walton, Brenda WJH Penninx, EarlyCause consortium   |   BMC medicine 21 (1), 93, 2023

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Data infrastructures for AI in medical imaging: a report on the experiences of five EU projects

2023   |   Haridimos Kondylakis, Varvara Kalokyri, Stelios Sfakianakis, Kostas Marias, Manolis Tsiknakis, Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Ignacio Blanquer, J Damian Segrelles, Sergio López-Huguet, Caroline Barelle, Magdalena Kogut-Czarkowska, Gianna Tsakou, Nikolaos Siopis, Zisis Sakellariou, Paschalis Bizopoulos, Vicky Drossou, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis, Pedro Mallol, Luis Marti-Bonmati, Leonor Cerdá Alberich, Karine Seymour, Samuel Boucher, Esther Ciarrocchi, Lauren Fromont, Jordi Rambla, Alexander Harms, Andrea Gutierrez, Martijn PA Starmans, Fred Prior, Josep Ll Gelpi, Karim Lekadir   |   European Radiology Experimental 7 (1), 20, 2023

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Explainable artificial intelligence and cardiac imaging: toward more interpretable models

2023   |   Ahmed Salih, Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo, Polyxeni Gkontra, Aaron Mark Lee, Karim Lekadir, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Steffen E Petersen   |   Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 16 (4), e014519, 2023

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Prediction of incident cardiovascular events using machine learning and CMR radiomics

2023   |   Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Liliana Szabo, Celeste McCracken, Cristian Izquierdo Morcillo, Víctor M Campello, Carlos Martín-Isla, Angelica M Atehortua, Hajnalka Vago, Bela Merkely, Pal Maurovich-Horvat, Nicholas C Harvey, Stefan Neubauer, Steffen E Petersen, Karim Lekadir   |   European radiology 33 (5), 3488-3500, 2023

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medigan: a Python library of pretrained generative models for medical image synthesis

2023   |   Richard Osuala, Grzegorz Skorupko, Noussair Lazrak, Lidia Garrucho, Eloy García, Smriti Joshi, Socayna Jouide, Michael Rutherford, Fred Prior, Kaisar Kushibar, Oliver Díaz, Karim Lekadir   |   Journal of Medical Imaging 10 (6), 061403-061403, 2023

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Commentary on explainable artificial intelligence methods: SHAP and LIME

2023   |   Ahmed Salih, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo, Petia Radeva, Steffen E Petersen, Gloria Menegaz, Karim Lekadir   |   arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02012, 2023

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Generalisability of fetal ultrasound deep learning models to low-resource imaging settings in five African countries

2023   |   Carla Sendra-Balcells, Víctor M Campello, Jordina Torrents-Barrena, Yahya Ali Ahmed, Mustafa Elattar, Benard Ohene-Botwe, Pempho Nyangulu, William Stones, Mohammed Ammar, Lamya Nawal Benamer, Harriet Nalubega Kisembo, Senai Goitom Sereke, Sikolia Z Wanyonyi, Marleen Temmerman, Eduard Gratacós, Elisenda Bonet, Elisenda Eixarch, Kamil Mikolaj, Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard, Karim Lekadir   |   Scientific reports 13 (1), 2728, 2023

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Machine and deep learning for longitudinal biomedical data: a review of methods and applications

2023   |   Anna Cascarano, Jordi Mur-Petit, Jeronimo Hernandez-Gonzalez, Marina Camacho, Nina de Toro Eadie, Polyxeni Gkontra, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Jordi Vitria, Karim Lekadir   |   Artificial Intelligence Review 56 (Suppl 2), 1711-1771, 2023

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FUTURE-AI: International consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare

2023   |   Karim Lekadir, Aasa Feragen, Abdul Joseph Fofanah, Alejandro F Frangi, Alena Buyx, Anais Emelie, Andrea Lara, Antonio R Porras, An-Wen Chan, Arcadi Navarro, Ben Glocker, Benard O Botwe, Bishesh Khanal, Brigit Beger, Carol C Wu, Celia Cintas, Curtis P Langlotz, Daniel Rueckert, Deogratias Mzurikwao, Dimitrios I Fotiadis, Doszhan Zhussupov, Enzo Ferrante, Erik Meijering, Eva Weicken, Fabio A González, Folkert W Asselbergs, Fred Prior, Gabriel P Krestin, Gary Collins, Geletaw S Tegenaw, Georgios Kaissis, Gianluca Misuraca, Gianna Tsakou, Girish Dwivedi, Haridimos Kondylakis, Harsha Jayakody, Henry C Woodruf, Hugo JWL Aerts, Ian Walsh, Ioanna Chouvarda, Irène Buvat, Islem Rekik, James Duncan, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Jihad Zahir, Jinah Park, John Mongan, Judy W Gichoya, Julia A Schnabel, Kaisar Kushibar, Katrine Riklund, Kensaku Mori, Kostas Marias, Lameck M Amugongo, Lauren A Fromont, Lena Maier-Hein, Leonor Cerdá Alberich, Leticia Rittner, Lighton Phiri, Linda Marrakchi-Kacem, Lluís Donoso-Bach, Luis Martí-Bonmatí, M Jorge Cardoso, Maciej Bobowicz, Mahsa Shabani, Manolis Tsiknakis, Maria A Zuluaga, Maria Bielikova, Marie-Christine Fritzsche, Marius George Linguraru, Markus Wenzel, Marleen De Bruijne, Martin G Tolsgaard, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Md Ashrafuzzaman, Melanie Goisauf, Mohammad Yaqub, Mohammed Ammar, Mónica Cano Abadía, Mukhtar ME Mahmoud, Mustafa Elattar, Nicola Rieke, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Noussair Lazrak, Oliver Díaz, Olivier Salvado, Oriol Pujol, Ousmane Sall, Pamela Guevara, Peter Gordebeke, Philippe Lambin, Pieta Brown, Purang Abolmaesumi, Qi Dou, Qinghua Lu, Richard Osuala, Rose Nakasi, S Kevin Zhou, Sandy Napel, Sara Colantonio, Shadi Albarqouni, Smriti Joshi, Stacy Carter, Stefan Klein, Steffen E Petersen, Susanna Aussó, Suyash Awate, Tammy Riklin Raviv, Tessa Cook, Tinashe EM Mutsvangwa, Wendy A Rogers, Wiro J Niessen, Xènia Puig-Bosch, Yi Zeng, Yunusa G Mohammed, Yves Saint James Aquino, Zohaib Salahuddin, Martijn Starmans   |   arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12325, 2023

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High-resolution synthesis of high-density breast mammograms: application to improved fairness in deep learning based mass detection

2023   |   Lidia Garrucho, Kaisar Kushibar, Richard Osuala, Oliver Diaz, Alessandro Catanese, Javier Del Riego, Maciej Bobowicz, Fredrik Strand, Laura Igual, Karim Lekadir   |   Frontiers in Oncology 12, 1044496, 2023

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Image‐Based Biological Heart Age Estimation Reveals Differential Aging Patterns Across Cardiac Chambers

2023   |   Ahmed M Salih, Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Víctor M Campello, Celeste McCracken, Nicholas C Harvey, Stefan Neubauer, Karim Lekadir, Thomas E Nichols, Steffen E Petersen, Zahra Raisi‐Estabragh   |   Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 58 (6), 1797-1812, 2023

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