SELECTED & RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Understanding, predicting, and treating depression in pregnancy to improve mothers’ and offspring’s mental health outcomes: The HappyMums study
A. Biaggi, V. Zonca, C. Anacker, V. Begni, F. Benedetti, A. Bramante,
A. Braniecka, V. Brenna, M. Bulgheroni, C. Bussi, L. Cavaliere, C.A.M. Cecil, A.C. Couch, D. de Barra, H. El Marroun, S. Entringer, R. Grassi-Oliveira, M. Jackowska, A. Korosi, P.J.C. Kwant, J. Lahti, K. Lekadir, […] A. Cattaneo, HappyMums Consortium
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health
Volume 44, 100961. March 2025.
FUTURE-AI: international consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare
Lekadir, K., Frangi, A. F., Porras, A. R., Glocker, B., Cintas, C., Langlotz, C. P., Weicken, E., Asselbergs, F. W., Prior, F., Collins, G. S., Kaissis, G., Tsakou, G., Buvat, I., Kalpathy-Cramer, J., Mongan, J., Schnabel, J. A., Kushibar, K., Riklund, K., Marias, K., Amugongo, L. M., … FUTURE-AI Consortium (2025).
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 388, e081554. February 2025.
Differences in technical and clinical perspectives on AI validation in cancer imaging: mind the gap!
Ioanna Chouvarda, Sara Colantonio, Ana S. C. Verde, Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Leonor Cerdá-Alberich, Yannick Metz, Lithin Zacharias, Shereen Nabhani-Gebara, Maciej Bobowicz, Gianna Tsakou, Karim Lekadir, Manolis Tsiknakis, Luis Martí-Bonmati & Nikolaos Papanikolaou.
European Radiology Experimental ( 2025) 9:7. January 2025.
Segment Anything Model for fetal head-pubic symphysis segmentation in intrapartum ultrasound image analysis
Zihao Zhou, Yaosheng Lu, Jieyun Bai, Víctor M. Campello, Fan Feng & Karim Lekadir
Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 263, 125699. November 2024.
PSFHS challenge report: Pubic symphysis and fetal head segmentation from intrapartum ultrasound images
Jieyun Bai, Zihao Zhou, Zhanhong Ou, Gregor Koehler, Raphael Stock, Klaus Maier-Hein, Marawan Elbatel, Robert Martí, Xiaomeng, Yaoyang Qiu, Panjie Gou, Gongping Chen, Lei Zhao, Jianxun Zhang, Yu Dai, Fangyijie Wang, Guénolé Silvestre, Kathleen Curran, Hongkun Sun, Jing Xu, …, & Karim Lekadir.
Medical Image Analysis, Volume 99 (2025) 103353. September 2024.
Low-cost predictive models of dementia risk using machine learning and exposome predictors
Marina Camacho, Angélica Atehortúa, Tim Wilkinson, Polyxeni Gkontra & Karim Lekadir
Health Technol. July 2024
Efficient MedSAMs: Segment Anything in Medical Images on Laptop
Jun Ma, … , Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Christopher …, Kaisar Kushibar, … , Carlos Martín-Isla, Karim Lekadir, Victor M. Campello, …, & Bo Wang
Preprint submitted to ArXiv, arXiv:2412.16085. Dec 2024.
Enhancing Heart Failure Management: Integrating AI with Telemonitoring Systems for Advanced Alarm-Based Solutions
Joan Perramon Llussà, Júlia Altarriba Paracolls, Ricard Sanjosé Alemany, Marina Bataller, Núria Pastor Hernández, Unai Sánchez Luque, Karim Lekadir & Polyxeni Gkontra.
2024 20th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
A Structural Equation Model Linking Early-Life Stress to Adult Mental and Cardiovascular Disease
Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas,, Anna Cascarano, Vien Ngoc Dang, Marina Camacho, Angélica Atehortúa Labrador & Karim Lekadir
2024 20th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Understanding Early-Life Stress Impact on Mental-Physical Comorbidity Using Machine Learning
Vien Ngoc Dang, Jerónimo Hernández-González & Karim Lekadir
2024 20th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
Requirements for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: A Heart Failure Study Across Europe and Latin America
Xènia Puig-Bosch, Machteld J. Boonstra, Miriam Cabrita, Joan Perramon, Sara Munive, Andrea Guala, Vladimír Kincl, Saskia Haitjema, Carina Dantas, Folkert W. Asselbergs & Karim Lekadir.
2024 20th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
An assessment of the European Patient Summary for clinical research: a case study in cardiology
Gokce Banu Laleci Erturkmen, Ali Anil Sinaci, Tuncay Namli, Machteld J Boonstra, Karim Lekadir, Polyxeni Gkontra, Catherine Chronaki, Rhonda Facile, Rebecca Baker & Rebecca Kush.
Frontiers in Medicine, 11, 1481551. November 2024.
Mitigating Overdiagnosis Bias in CNN-Based Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis for the Elderly
Vien Ngoc Dang, Adrià Casamitjana, Jerónimo Hernández-González, Karim Lekadir & for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Ethics and Fairness in Medical Imaging. FAIMI EPIMI 2024 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15198. Springer, Cham. October 2024.
Towards Learning Contrast Kinetics with Multi-condition Latent Diffusion Models
Richard Osuala, Daniel M. Lang, Preeti Verma, Smriti Joshi, Apostolia Tsirikoglou, Grzegorz Skorupko, Kaisar Kushibar, Lidia Garrucho, Walter H. L. Pinaya, Oliver Diaz, Julia A. Schnabel & Karim Lekadir
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention pp. 713-723, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. October 2024.
Intrapartum Ultrasound Image Segmentation of Pubic Symphysis and Fetal Head Using Dual Student-Teacher Framework with CNN-ViT Collaborative Learning
Jianmei Jiang, Huijin Wang, Jieyun Bai, Shun Long, Shuangping Chen, Victor M. Campello & Karim Lekadir
International conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention pp. 448-458, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. October 2024.
Simulating Dynamic Tumor Contrast Enhancement in Breast MRI using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Richard Osuala, Smriti Joshi, Apostolia Tsirikoglou, Lidia Garrucho, Walter H.L. Pinaya, Daniel M. Lang, Julia A. Schnabel, Oliver Diaz & Karim Lekadir
Preprint submitted to arXiv, preprint arXiv:2409.18872. Sept 2024.
Democratizing AI in Africa: Federated learning for low-resource edge devices
Richard Osuala, Daniel M. Lang, Anneliese Riess, Georgios Kaissis, Zuzanna Szafranowska, Grzegorz Skorupko, Oliver Diaz, Julia A. Schnabel & Karim Lekadir
Preprint submitted to ArXiv, arXiv:2408.1721. Aug 2024.
A review of evaluation approaches for explainable AI with applications in cardiology
Ahmed M. Salih, Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo, Polyxeni Gkontra, Elisa Rauseo, Aaron Mark Lee, Karim Lekadir, Petia Radeva, Steffen E. Petersen & Gloria Menegaz
Artificial intelligence review, 57-9 -240. Aug 2024.
Sex and population differences in the cardiometabolic continuum: a machine learning study using the UK Biobank and ELSA-Brasil cohorts
Daniela Polessa Paula, Marina Camacho, Odaleia Barbosa, Larissa Marques, Rosane Harter Griep, Maria Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Sandhi Barreto & Karim Lekadir
BMC public health, 24(1), 2131. Aug 2024
Prediction of Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Population with Ischemic Heart Disease Using Machine Learning with Radiomics and ECG Markers
Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Nay Aung, Liliana Szabo, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Marina Camacho, Steffen E. Petersen, Polyxeni Gkontra & Karim Lekadir
In Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (pp. 441-453). July 2024, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Enhancing the utility of privacy-preserving cancer classification using synthetic data
Richard Osuala, Daniel M. Lang, Anneliese Riess, Georgios Kaissis, Zuzanna Szafranowska, Grzegorz Skorupko, Oliver Diaz, Julia A. Schnabel & Karim Lekadir
Preprint submitted to ArXiv, arXiv:2407.12669. July 2024
Ischemic heart disease and cardiac arrhythmia are associated with increased cardiac aging
Ahmed Salih, Elisa Rauseo, Ilaria Galazzo, Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Victor Campello, Karim Lekadir, Nay Aung, Greg Slabaugh, Ghaith Dabbagh, Anwar Chahal, Gloria Menegaz & Steffen Petersen
Preprint submitted to Research Square. June 2024
MAMA-MIA: A Large-Scale Multi-Center Breast Cancer DCE-MRI Benchmark Dataset with Expert Segmentations
Lidia Garrucho, Claire-Anne Reidel, Kaisar Kushibar, Smriti Joshi, Richard Osuala, Apostolia Tsirikoglou, Maciej Bobowicz, Javier del Riego, Alessandro Catanese, Katarzyna Gwózdziewicz, Maria-Laura Cosaka, Pasant M. Abo-Elhoda, Sara W. Tantawy, Shorouq S. Sakrana, Norhan O. Shawky-Abdelfatah, Amr Muhammad, Abdo-Salem, Androniki Kozana, Eugen Divjak, Gordana Ivanac, Katerina Nikiforaki, Michail E. Klontzas, Rosa García-Dosdá, Meltem Gulsun-Akpinar, Oğuz Lafcı, Ritse Mann, Carlos Martín-Isla, Fred Prior, Kostas Marias, Martijn P.A. Starmans, Fredrik Strand, Oliver Díaz, Laura Igual & Karim Lekadir
Preprint submitted to Scientific Data, June 2024
Digital twins: reimagining the future of cardiovascular risk prediction and personalised care
Katarzyna Dziopa, Karim Lekadir, Pim van der Harst &
Folkert W. Asselbergs
Hellenic journal of cardiology. June 2024, S1109-9666(24)00125-8
A deep learning solution to detect left ventricular structural abnormalities with chest X-rays: towards trustworthy AI in cardiology
Karim Lekadir
European Heart Journal. June 2024, Vol. 45, Issue 22
Public data homogenization for AI model development in breast cancer
Vassilis Kilintzis, Varvara Kalokyri, Haridimos Kondylakis, Smriti Joshi, Katerina Nikiforaki, Oliver Díaz, Karim Lekadir, Manolis Tsiknakis & Kostas Marias
European Radiology Experimental. April 2024, Vol. 8, Article 42
Fairness and bias correction in machine learning for depression prediction across four study populations
Vien Ngoc Dang, Anna Cascarano, Rosa H. Mulder, Charlotte Cecil, Maria A. Zuluaga, Jerónimo Hernández-González & Karim Lekadir
Scientific Reports. April 2024, Vol. 14, Article 7848
Cohort Profile: The Cardiovascular Research Data Catalogue
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. February 2024, Vol. 53, Issue 1
A structural heart-brain axis mediates the association between cardiovascular risk and cognitive function
Akshay Jaggi, Eleanor L.S. Conole, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Polyxeni Gkontra, Celeste McCracken, Liliana Szabo, Stefan Neubauer, Steffen E. Petersen, Simon R. Cox, Karim Lekadir
Imaging Neuroscience. January 2024, Vol. 2
Radiomics analysis enhances the diagnostic performance of CMR stress perfusion: a proof-of-concept study using the Dan-NICAD dataset
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh,Carlos Martin-Isla, Louise Nissen, Liliana Szabo, Victor M. Campello, Sergio Escalera, Simon Winther, Morten Bøttcher, Karim Lekadir, Steffen E. Petersen
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. September 2023, Vol. 10, Article 1141026
Image‐Based Biological Heart Age Estimation Reveals Differential Aging Patterns Across Cardiac Chambers
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. March 2023, Vol. 10, Article 28675
medigan: a Python library of pretrained generative models for medical image synthesis
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. February 2023, Vol. 10, Issue 6, Article 061403
High-resolution synthesis of high-density breast mammograms: Application to improved fairness in deep learning based mass detection
Lidia Garrucho, Kaisar Kushibar, Richard Osuala, Oliver Diaz, Alessandro Catanese, Javier del Riego, Maciej Bobowicz, Fredrik Strand, Laura Igual, Karim Lekadir
Frontiers Oncology. January 2023, Section Breast Cancer, Vol 12
Generalisability of fetal ultrasound deep learning models to low-resource imaging settings in five African countries
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. February 2023, Vol. 13, Article 2728
Esmeralda Ruiz Pujadas, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Liliana Szabo, Cristian Izquierdo Morcillo, Víctor M. Campello, Carlos Martin-Isla, Hajnalka Vago, Bela Merkely, Nicholas C. Harvey, Steffen E. Petersen and Karim Lekadir
Scientific Reports. November 2022, Vol. 12, Article 18876
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. November 2020, Vol. 7, Pages 232-243
Fusion of 3D real-time Echocardiography and cine MRI using a Saliency Analysis
Image-Based Cardiac Diagnosis With Machine Learning: A Review
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. January 2020, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Pages 1-19
Supervised Domain Adaptation for Automatic Sub-cortical Brain Structure Segmentation with Minimal User Interaction
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Brain Image Analysis on Magnetic Resonance Imaging: a review
Learning to Combine Complementary Segmentation Methods for Fetal and 6-month Infant Brain MRI Segmentation
Automated sub-cortical Brain Structure Segmentation combining Spatial and Deep Convolutional Features
Statistical Shape Modeling of the Left Ventricle: Myocardial Infarct Classification Challenge
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. March 2018, Vol. 22, Issue 2, Pages 503-515
Scientific reports. January 2018, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages 1-19
Automatic Segmentation of Right Ventricle in Cardiac cine MR Images using a Saliency Analysis
Statistical Shape Modeling Using Partial Least Squares: Application to the Assessment of Myocardial Infarction
Patient-Specific Biomechanical Modeling of Bone Strength Using Statistically-Derived Fabric Tensors
Image Simulation and a Model of Noise Power Spectra across a Range of Mammographic Beam Qualities
Medical physics. November 2014, Vol. 41, Issue 12, Pages 121901
Statistical Personalization of Ventricular Fiber Orientation Using Shape Predictors
Personalization of a Cardiac Electromechanical Model using Reduced Order Unscented Kalman Filtering from Regional Volumes
Simulation and Assessment of Realistic Breast Lesions using Fractal Growth Models
A High-Resolution Atlas and Statistical Model of the Human Heart From Multislice CT