Keynote Speakers of MICAD 2026

Prof. Clarisa Sánchez Gutiérrez

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Clarisa, as full Professor of AI and Health at the University of Amsterdam, is deeply committed to advancing patient care through responsible AI technologies in healthcare. At the university, she holds positions at the Faculty of Science (IvI) and Amsterdam UMC (BMEP), fostering an interdisciplinary environment. In 2020, she co-founded the Quantitative Healthcare Analysis (qurAI) group, comprising over 20 PhD students and postdocs, dedicated to developing, validating, and integrating AI solutions for medical data challenges along the patient pathway. Her team focuses on cutting-edge technologies like generative AI, vision transformers, and self-supervised learning, while also prioritizing trustworthy AI aspects like interpretability and uncertainty estimation for medical data. Furthermore, Clarisa actively translates research outcomes into clinical applications, contributing to the global deployment of various software products. Notably, she co-invented CAD4TB, a CE certified AI software for TB screening operational in over 45 countries. Additionally, her group collaborates on the development of grand-challenge, an end-to-end platform for biomedical image analysis. Her multifaceted contributions underscore her commitment to advancing AI in healthcare and fostering collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

Prof. Emanuele Trucco

University of Dundee, UK

Emanuele (Manuel) Trucco, MSc, PhD, FRSA, FIAPR, FBMVA, is the NRP Chair of Computational Vision in Computing, School of Science and Engineering, at the University of Dundee, an Honorary Clinical Researcher of NHS Tayside, and a former Adjunct Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was co-founder, NEX and scientific advisor for the spinout Eye to the Future.
He has been active since 1984 in computer vision, and since 2002 in medical image analysis, publishing more than 300 refereed papers and 2 textbooks. his research has been funded by UKRI (EPSRC, MRC), the EU, charities (incl. Royal Society, Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme) and industry (incl. Canon, Astra Zeneca, Lilly, OPTOS, British Aerospace). Manuel has served on the organizing or program committee of major international and UK conferences, including three times Program Chair for the British Machine Vision Conference, and co-General Chair for ECCV2020 (online, ~4,600 delegates). At MICCAI, Manuel has served as co-chair of several editions of the OMIA workshop (since 2015), Area Chair, and invited speaker at workshops (LABELS, CARE). Manuel is co-director of VAMPIRE (Vessel Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the Retina), an international research initiative led by the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh (co-director Dr Tom MacGillivray), part of the UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium and of the Healthcare Data Research UK Scottish Institute. VAMPIRE software is being used around the world in biomarker studies on cardiovascular risk, stroke, dementia, diabetes and complications, cognitive performance, neurodegenerative diseases, and genetics.