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Python-Driven Robotics: Where Bytes Meet Biopsies
.ical
2025-07-24 –, Auditorium

Python's innovation in MedTech: Robotics for precise lung biopsies. See how Python advances healthcare's future.

Explore how Python's robust ecosystem is driving innovation in medical robotics. This talk will showcase Python's potential to enable minimally-invasive robot-assisted lung biopsies with unprecedented accuracy, including high sensitivity and specificity on hundreds of medical images.

Minimally-Invasive Robotic Systems:

  • Understand the system for biopsy procedures, focusing on precision and minimally-invasive techniques.
  • Examine Python libraries for imaging, highlighting algorithmic solutions for nodule targeting.
  • Discuss challenges encountered when achieving high accuracy and sensitivity, and solutions developed to overcome them.

Algorithmic Diagnostics:

  • Delve into the application of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (TensorFlow, Keras) for enhanced lung nodule detection.
  • Analyze the model's performance on large-scale medical image datasets, key metrics, and complexities of training such models.

We'll explore how Python empowers advanced medical imaging, predictive maintenance, and real-time telemetry, shaping the future of AI-driven surgery. This presentation aims to inspire the PyCon Portugal community (and beyond!), highlighting Python's potential to advance MedTech and improve patient care through innovative robotic solutions.

Audience Level –

Beginner

 What are the main topics of your talk? –

Healthcare (MedTech), Medical Robotics, Medical Imaging, Data Analysis, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Algorithms
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Lilinoe Harbottle

Lilinoe Harbottle is an Indigenous Data Scientist who bridges data algorithms, robotics, and healthcare. She leads AI initiatives at a San Francisco startup, developing models for autonomous systems and natural language processing. At Auris Health (Johnson & Johnson), she enhanced medical robotic systems, improving bronchoscopy and urology procedures. A champion for open source and inclusive tech communities, she is a Sequoyah Fellow of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES).