AI for Life

At Idiap, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of complex diseases and develop novel therapeutic approaches by leveraging advanced learning and inference paradigms that allow us to integrate diverse, longitudinal, interventional data and prior scientific and expert knowledge.

We embrace the complexity of individuals’ health and personal care and a broad range of multimodal health and biological data.

We are dedicated to transparently and intelligibly enhancing health outcomes while ensuring democratic access to solutions.

Expertise domains

#Bioinformatics&HealthInformatics
#DataScience&SocialComputing
#HumanComputerInteraction
#Imaging&ComputerVision
#MachineLearning
#NaturalLanguageProcessing
#Robotics&AutonomousSystems
#Security&Privacy
#SignalProcessing
#Speech&AudioProcessing

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This program contributes to the following UN SDG


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People

ABBET, Philip
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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AKSTINAITE, Vita
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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ALONSO DEL BARRIO, David
(Junior R&D / Research Assistant)


AMIRI, Mahdi
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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ANNAPUREDDY, Ravinithesh Reddy
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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ARMANI RENZO, Matheus
(Research Intern)


BEN MAHMOUD, Imen
(Research and Development Engineer)
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BILALOGLU, Cem
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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BORNET, Olivier
(Head of Research and Development Team)
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BRADICIC, Manuel
(Research Intern)


BROS, Victor
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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BURDISSO, Sergio (Gastón)
(R&D / Research Assistant)


CALINON, Sylvain
(Senior Research Scientist)
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CANÉVET, Olivier
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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CAROFILIS VASCO, Roberto Andrés
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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CARRON, Daniel
(Research and Development Engineer)
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CHEN, Haolin
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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CLIVAZ, Guillaume
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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COPPIETERS DE GIBSON, Louise
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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DAYER, Yannick
(Research and Development Engineer)
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DE WAHA-BAILLONVILLE, Gilles
(Research Intern)


DELMAS, Maxime
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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DROZ, William
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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EL HAJAL, Karl
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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EUTAMENE, Camil
(Research Intern)


FARKHONDEH, Arya
(Research Intern)
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FOURNIER, Lisa
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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FREITAS, André
(Research Scientist)
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GAIST, Samuel
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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GARNER, Philip
(Senior Research Scientist)
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GATICA-PEREZ, Daniel
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
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GENTILHOMME, Théophile
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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GUPTA, Anshul
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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HE, Mutian
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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HERMANN, Enno
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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HERMUS, James
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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HOU, Mingchi
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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HOVSEPYAN, Sevada
(Research Associate)
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ISMAYILZADA, Mahammad
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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JAKAC, Karlo
(Research Intern)
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JIMÉNEZ DEL TORO, Oscar (Alfonso)
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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JUNG, Vincent
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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KALAAJI, Dana
(Research Intern)
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KALOGA, Yacouba
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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KAYAL, Salim
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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KHALIL, Driss
(Junior R&D / Research Assistant)
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KODRASI, Ina
(Research Scientist)
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KOPP, Damian
(Research Intern)


KULKARNI, Ajinkya (Vijay)
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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KUMAR, Shashi
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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LANCA, Luka
(Research Intern)
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LI, Yiming
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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LIEBLING, Michael
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
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LORTHIOIS, Pierre
(Research Intern)


LÖW, Tobias
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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LUISIER, Raphaëlle
(Research Scientist)
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MACEIRAS, Jérémy
(Research and Development Engineer)
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MAGIMAI DOSS, Mathew
(Senior Research Scientist)
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MARCEL, Christine
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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MARIĆ, Ante
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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MAYORAZ, André
(Research and Development Engineer)
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MENENDEZ RUIZ DE AZUA, Pablo
(Research Intern)


MESSORI, Elisa
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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MICHEL, Samuel
(Research and Development Engineer)
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MOTLICEK, Petr
(Senior Research Scientist)
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MURALIDHAR, Skanda
(Research Associate)
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NANCHEN, Alexandre
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
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ODOBEZ, Jean-Marc
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
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ÖZBULAK, Gökhan
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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PETERSEN, Molly (Rose)
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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PIRAS, Florian
(Junior R&D / Research Assistant)
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PRASAD, Amrutha
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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PULVIRENTI, Roberto
(Research Intern)


PUROHIT, Tilak
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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RABELLO DOS ANJOS, André
(Research Scientist)
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RAJAPAKSHE, Shalutha
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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RANGAPPA, Pradeep
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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RAZMJOO FARD, Amirreza
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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RODRIGUES TORRAO, Filipa
(Research Intern)


SANCHEZ LARA, Alejandra
(Research Intern)
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SANCHEZ-CORTES, Dairazalia
(Research Assistant)
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SARKAR, Eklavya
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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SCHONGER, Martin
(Research Intern)
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SENFT, Emmanuel
(Research Scientist (CRG Head))
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SHAPOSHNIKOV, Roman
(Research Intern)


SHEIKH, Shakeel Ahmad
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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SHIBATA, Keigo
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SYLA, Valmir
(Research Intern)


TAFASCA, Samy
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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TARIGOPULA, Neha
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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THORBECKE (NIGMATULINA), Iuliia
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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TIMONINA-FARKAS, Anna
(Research Associate)
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TORNAY, Sandrine
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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VALENTINO, Marco
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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VAN DER MEER, Michiel
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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VAN DER PLAS, Lonneke
(External Research Fellow)
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VÁSQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Laura
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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VERNHES, Albin
(Research Intern)
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VERZAT, Colombine
(Research and Development Engineer)
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VILLAMIZAR, Michael (Alejandro)
(Research Associate)
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VILLATORO TELLO, Esaú
(Research Associate)
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VLASENKO, Bogdan
(Research Associate)
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VUILLECARD, Pierre
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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WEN, Jing
(Research Intern)


WYSOCKI, Oskar
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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XI, Lei
(Research Intern)


XU, Zhi Ming
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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XUE, Teng
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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ZANGGER, Alicia
(Research and Development Engineer)
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ZHANG, Yan
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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Publication highlights

Deep Learning Architectures for Estimating Breathing Signal and Respiratory Parameters from Speech Recordings. S. Nallanthighal, Z. Mostaani, A. Härma, H. Strik, and M. Magimai-Doss. Neural Networks, 2021.

This work is a result of a collaboration between Idiap and Philips Research Eindhoven on deep learning techniques for sensing breathing signal and breathing parameters from speech for healthcare. This work has potential implications for the development of novel speech-based methods for healthcare, such as breathing monitoring in telehealth and assessment for early recognition of abnormal breathing syndromes.

 

Spatially-Variant CNN-Based Point Spread Function Estimation for Blind Deconvolution and Depth Estimation in Optical Microscopy. A. Shajkofci and M. Liebling. IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 29, 5848–5861, 2020.

Optical microscopy is a central tool for biomedical research and diagnostics, which calls for instruments performance to be continuously improved. We leverage a learning approach to locally determine image distortion parameters in the form of a parametric point spread function without requiring instrument- or object-specific calibration. This approach is robust to photon noise and is a key element for downstream applications, such as spatially variant deconvolution, depth localization, and flow estimation. This work is an outcome of the SNSF project Computational biomicroscopy: advanced image processing methods to quantify live biological systems (2018-2022).

 

Image-based Deep Learning Reveals the Responses of Human Motor Neurons to Stress and VCP-related ALS. Verzat, J. Harley, R. Patani, R. Luisier. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 48 (2): e12770, February 2022.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disease, for which the early cellular and molecular events remain poorly understood. Morphological attributes of cells and their substructures have been relatively understudied in ALS research. Transfer learning was used to leverage the power of imaging fluorescent data to enable unbiased, robust and efficient testing of biological hypotheses, and to resolve the extent of aberrant cellular morphological indices during earlier phases of ALS pathogenesis. This work, performed in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, is transformational to the information that can be gleaned from image analysis.

Project highlights

AI4Autism, 2021-2025, SNSF, Sinergia project, Odobez

ChaSpeePro, 2021-2025, SNSF Sinergia, Kodrasi

NeuroCIRT, 2022-2026, SNSF, Luisier


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