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Wilson Silva

Assistant Professor · Trustworthy AI for Medicine and Biology · Utrecht University

About

I am the head of the Trustworthy AI for Life Lab and Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. I am also a guest scientist at the Department of Radiology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Before this, I was a postdoc at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. I did my PhD at the University of Porto, with a visiting stay at the University of Bern, working at the intersection of deep learning and medical imaging. My research focuses on explainable, privacy-preserving, and robust AI for biomedical applications. Outside the lab, I enjoy travelling, photography, and road cycling 🚴‍♂️📷🌍.

Selected Publications

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In-hoc Concept Representations to Regularise Deep Learning in Medical Imaging
Valentina Corbetta, Floris Six Dijkstra, Regina Beets-Tan, Hoel Kervadec, Kristoffer Wickstrøm, and Wilson Silva
ICCV Workshops, 2025
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Disentangled and Interpretable Multimodal Attention Fusion for Cancer Survival Prediction
Aniek Eijpe, Soufyan Lakbir, Melis Erdal Cesur, Sara P. Oliveira, Sanne Abeln, and Wilson Silva
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025
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Understanding the Impact of Client Heterogeneity on Ordinal Classification in Federated Medical Image Analysis
Valentina Corbetta, Regina Beets-Tan, Jaime S. Cardoso, and Wilson Silva
Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2025
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Team

Visit the Trustworthy AI for Life Lab to learn more about our team and projects.

Teaching

I contribute to several courses at Utrecht University, focusing on machine learning, deep learning, and explainable AI. More details and links to materials will be added here soon.

Contact

AI Technology for Life, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Department of Biology, Utrecht University

Buys Ballot building room 4.79, Utrecht Science Park, Utrecht

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