8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

08.10.2022  Tallinn, Estonia

Martin Villig (Estonia)

Everything is possible when you dream big enough

Biography: I’ve been an tech entrepreneur for more than 20 years and studied International Business Administration at the Estonian Business School (EBS).
Besides work, I like travelling and enjoy outdoor activities (hiking and biking), various sports (pilates, soccer, tennis, running, swimming, disc golf, etc.). My other major passion is doing good for our planet and its inhabitants, wherever possible. From using a bike for my daily commute, to recycling, to co-founding a number of community-based organisations.

My main passions in life include:

• Boosting education initiatives and policy via the Estonian Education Foundation.
• Promoting entrepreneurship, mentoring young founders, and making angel investments.
• Making our cities safer for walking, cycling and scooters via Bolt and ElavTanav.ee
• Doing good personally and promoting a mindset of effective giving.

I enjoy mentoring young entrepreneurs, empower Estonian education system via innovative projects and make the world better by doing good. I am passionate about entrepreneurship and giving back to community. I try to meet with 1-2 new entrepreneurs every week (mostly lunch meetings or 30min calls) in order to learn about their business ideas, challenges and give feedback and connect with relevant people.
Besides mentoring young founders, I am also doing angel investments. I am looking for a clear hypothesis for a product - clear customer pain and a solution to solve that pain. A strong founding team should have a working prototype in platforms/mobile space. Investment tickets usually €10-50K.

Maija Radzina (Latvia)

Artificial intelligence in medical imaging: threat or opportunity?

Synopsis: Artificial intelligence is claimed as the future perspective of medical imaging with a threat to replace a radiologist, as an answer to the increasing demand, high volume of examinations, and shortage of radiologists. The lecture will give the overview of current concepts in Europe, AI impact for medical imaging with emphasis on challenges for AI implementation, precision and responsibility, that proves necessity for interdisciplinary teamwork of radiologists with IT specialists and healthcare managers.

Biography: President of Latvian Radiology Association and Chief of RSU Radiology Research laboratory. She is well known as a passionate educator in clinical radiology, diligent researcher, and opinion leader in the Baltic countries and Europe. Her research has been devoted to innovative methods in vascular, endocrine, hepatobiliary and oncology imaging: CT perfusion, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, US elastography, PET/CT, and furthermore computer science developments in Artificial Intelligence.

Saulius Lukoševičius (Lithuania)

The future role of the radiologist in the rapidly changing healthcare landscape

Synopsis: The future role of the radiologist in the rapidly changing healthcare landscape.

This presentation will provide an extensive overview of how likely the radiology profession and our role will evolve in the future. This talk will explore the expanding different roles of the radiologist, and these include radiologist as a doctor/physician, a communicator, an innovator or technology facilitator and teacher – disucssing how these connect with the broader healthcare system. As physicians, radiologists will continue to provide a highly specialised diagnosis or treatment of the disease; however, there will be a need for radiologists to get further involved in the patients' clinical pathways with extensive expertise in imaging and clinical care to increase the collaboration with other healthcare professionals to ensure that the added-value by our profession remains increasing. More, like never before radiologists will need to not only communicate more with clinical colleagues, but also to get more involved in communication with patients and serve as protectors of patients’ safety. Also, radiologists will be expected to serve as translators of complex clinical, imaging and data scientists generated information ensuring the swift communication between clinical professionals and patients. Radiologists will also play an increasing role in adopting AI algorithms and data science in medicine, meaning that in the upcoming years, our skillset will likely need to significantly expand to enable us to maintain our role as one of the most technology-driven and evolving medical professions in the last century. Lastly, as teachers, we will need to continue to provide a more subspecialised training in radiology but also to continue to expand the skillset provided for younger colleagues, including not only training in data science and machine learning, but also soft skills like leadership and management to provide the future radiologist with know-how needed to take a leading position in shaping the future of healthcare. All of the roles above will be better presented and discussed during the presentation.

Biography: Long-standing member of European Society of Radiology, Lithuanian. Radiologists’ Association, Kaunas regional radiological society; Member of committees of UEMS and ESR. International lectures (ESR National Societies Committee online meeting April 29, 2021, “Getting ready for implementation of radiological clinical audit in Lithuania”). Permanent member of scientific and organizational committees of Baltic radiology congresses; expert in radiology at GIZ fund (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GmbH) in Uzbekistan (since 2021).