Surgical AI Lead @orsiacademy 🤖Working on AI surgical support & error detection🦾 👨💻Engineer, MD, PhD👨⚕️ @EAES_eu AI @EAU_YAUroTech😷
Joined July 2021
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
Mar 13
Urology Group Aalst strongly represented at #EAU26 in London.
Our AZORG team shares expertise in live robotic surgery, complex kidney procedures, AI & AR innovation, the future of robotic surgery, and hands-on training.
Proud of this strong delegation!
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
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Welcome to UGA – Urology Group Aalst! 🩺 13 superspecialised urologists • All subdisciplines • 6 campuses. 25y Robotics | 15y HOLEP | 8y REZUM | integrated uro-oncology. Pioneers in Aquablation, AI-assisted surgery & tele-surgery. 450 pubs. TopCare. Forwardism.
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
27 Nov 2025
Join our must-attend #UROwebinar, our 2nd one next week! Learn how digital technologies enhance efficiency, support clinical decision-making, and increase surgeon autonomy. Register now 👇
webinars.uroweb.org/EAU/webi…
@_alelarcher @francesco_cei1 @marciomoschovas @pidebacker
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
28 Feb 2025
🤖The Rise of Robotics in Medicine
Join us for a cutting-edge panel discussion with @pidebacker, An Steegen, Brian Miller, and @AndreaPakula on the integration of robotics in surgery, moderated by NVIDIA's @DavidNiewolny. #GTC25
Don't miss it ➡️ nvda.ws/41dfZzo
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
6 Mar 2025
#AI for #Endoscopic Stone Surgery: What’s Next?
Endourology could benefit greatly from integration of AI to refine diagnostics and enhance training and postoperative care.
Check out our mini review from the @Uroweb Section of Endourology, published in @EurUrolFocus
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
30 Dec 2024
Our new paper is one of the first out there on force feedback (FFB) technology with the #dV5 @IntuitiveSurg
We studied the prototype robot almost 2 years before product launch and saw that FFB allowed less use of force, more efficiency, and less trauma, while suturing
Open access:
link.springer.com/content/pd…
Wonderful partnership with:
@IntuitiveSurg team, @ElliotServaisMD and @lailara58
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
16 Dec 2024
1⃣. online meeting
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⏺️EAU Endourology - AI & Technology WG 👨💻🧠🤖
@OTRAXER @Uroweb
⚡️ Let's start !
@CarlottaNedbal
@Cacciamani_MD
@pidebacker
Chady Ghnatios
@ZineEddineKhene
@PMKronenberg
@tzevattefik
@bwturney
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10 Oct 2024
Looking very much forward to this 2nd edition!!!
10 Oct 2024
💥WE ARE BACK💥 Surgical AI & Telesurgery Days 2025! The European platform for #AI in surgery is returning with global experts!
🎤Keynotes across specialties
🤖Live AI-powered surgeries
🎪Networking in Ghent's top venue
📃Best Abstract Award
🎫bit.ly/486aIwK
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1 Oct 2024
Check out our @EAU_YAUroTech latest review on AR and VR surgical planning as led by @EnricoCheccucci @Cacciamani_MD!
#Metaverse transforms surgery with AR & VR
🛠️ Enhances surgical planning (3D models)
👨⚕️ Boosts intraoperative precision
📉 Aids post-op monitoring
rdcu.be/dVBYa
#Healthcare #Surgery #AR #VR #AI #Pub2Post
@NatRevUrol @EAU_YAUroTech @PuliattiStefano @pidebacker @JGomezRivas
@pietropiazza @KFKowalewski @marktaratkin @LoicBaekelandt @PorpigliaF
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
23 Sep 2024
Wereldprimeur – AI-technologie als GPS voor robotchirurgie 👋 @pidebacker @alexmottrie @orsiacademy
despecialist.eu/nl/nieuws/we…
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20 Sep 2024
Thank you @riccardoschiav6 @AngeloMottaran @pietropiazza @Unibo for the fantastic collaboration and livestream of a fantastic RAPN case. Looking forward to more to come! @orsiacademy @Orsi_Innotech @alexmottrie
20 Sep 2024
Fantastic first Robot Assisted Partial Nephrectomy Augmented Reality 3D model guided and with automatic AI surgical phases, organs and instruments recognition @pidebacker performed during #AI2M by @riccardoschiav6 at Sant’Orsola Hospital Urology Department @Eugenio74446325.
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
20 Sep 2024
🚀Revolutionizing surgery with AI at @Orsi_Innotech!
For the first time in the 🌎, 4 AI models including real-time organ segmentation, phase recognition, anonymization, and 3D AR, were used in a RAPN by Prof. @alexmottrie at OLV hospital Aalst, powered by @NVIDIAAI IGX ORIN. 🤖
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14 Sep 2024
Very well deserved @kenzo_mestdagh !!
13 Sep 2024
Best poster at #ERUS24. Thank you to everyone involved for the smooth collaborations! Incredibly grateful for the opportunity, on to the next adventure!
@orsiacademy @Orsi_Innotech @CharlesPraet @pidebacker @alexmottrie @KarelDecaestec1 @AlbertoBreda1
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
21 Jun 2024
Amazing turnout for our #AI in #Surgery course at #SRS2024 @socroboticsurg
👉🏼 multi-disciplinary (clinical-AI) partnerships are critical
👉🏼 technology is great, but it needs to be applied with intention
👉🏼 improved patient outcomes should be the goal of any adoption of technology
@pidebacker @TGrantcharovMD @THeniford @ddonoho @Proximie @DrNadineHH @mytheator @IntuitiveSurg @MethodAi @nvidia @TouchSurgery @JNJMedTech
We need a bigger room next year!
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21 Jun 2024
Fully packed AI session @socroboticsurg in Orlando #SRS2024 @ddonoho
From data capture through AI basics up to automated surgical skill assessment.
Grateful for the society to highlight this exploding field👏
Looking forward to @Orsi_Innotech surgical AI days 2024 - Feb 2025!
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20 Jun 2024
Looking forward very much! See you tomorrow!
20 Jun 2024
Headed to #SRS2024 in Orlando this weekend?
Join our star-studded #AI in #Surgery course on Friday!
This all started a few years ago as a few lectures in the "New Technologies" plenary session, but now a full half day program at SRS! thanks to @vipulpatelmd for his partnership and support
Lectures by @TGrantcharovMD @pidebacker #pegahkhosravi #filippofilicori #danfer @ddonoho and industry leaders from @IntuitiveSurg @nvidia @TouchSurgery @JNJMedTech @Proximie @mytheator
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
15 Jun 2024
thank you @RonanCahill15 for your outstanding contribution as faculty for this masterclass on surgical AI! @dpkalapatt @SagivTech @p_masca @pidebacker @AsensusSurgical @albertoarezzo @MintzYoav @profgeorgehanna @nader_nkfrancis @UKEHamburg
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13 Jun 2024
Mega trends in AI session kicked off by @doctor_felix at @EAES_eu #EAES24 in auditorium 2!
It is clear that ChatGPT is really buzzing but what can it really mean for surgical practice?
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
10 Jun 2024
🎉 Exciting news! 🎉 All 4 of our Innotech abstracts are accepted for the SRS Annual Meeting in Orlando!
Join us at #SRS24 to explore our latest research! See you there!
@socroboticsurg @orsiacademy
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Pieter De Backer retweeted
6 Jun 2024
#CILR24 day 2 kicks off with the panel on #ArtificialInteligence
@alexmottrie showing developments in #augmentedreality and #AI-driven instruments’ automatic detection and overlapping
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