Collaborative study on innovative breast cancer surgery with augmented reality selected for Elsevier’s World Cancer Day article collection
Breast cancer surgery with augmented reality, a clinical research paper published in April 2021 in the medical journal The Breast, has been selected for inclusion in Elsevier’s World Cancer Day 2022 article collection. This collection includes a curated line-up of some of the top research papers published in Elsevier’s Oncology journal portfolios.
Daniel Simões Lopes – an INESC-ID researcher within the Graphics and Interaction Research Area and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico – is one of the authors of this paper, the pioneering digital technology of which had already been recognized with the “Best and Greatest in Portuguese Technology” award in the Innovation category by the Portuguese technology magazine Exame Informática in 2020.
This landmark paper described the first use of an “augmented reality” headset by a surgeon – Pedro Gouveia, a physician from the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre who performed the surgery and the corresponding author of this study – so they could visualize a virtual representation of the tumor in real time while extracting it from the patient. As the research paper itself states, it described “the first experimental test with a digital non-invasive method for intra-operative breast cancer localization using augmented reality to guide breast conservative surgery”, concluding that this type of surgery with augmented reality “can pave the way for a digital non-invasive method for intra-operative tumor localization.”
World Cancer Day, marked on 04 February, is an international campaign to raise awareness of cancer, encouraging its prevention, detection, and treatment, while supporting all those living with cancer.
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On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
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Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”