wouter bulten

I am Wouter Bulten. Currently, I am the Chief Innovation Officer of Aiosyn, an AI startup focused on computational pathology. At Aiosyn, my goal is to bring innovation and AI research to clinical practice.

I hold a PhD on computational pathology with a focus on using artificial intelligence for clinical diagnostics. I performed my PhD research at the Computational pathology group of the Department of Pathology and the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group of the Radboud University Medical Center. As part of my PhD, I organized the international PANDA Challenge, in collaboration with Google Health and the Karolinska Institute.

Summer 2015, I graduated Cum laude in Artificial Intelligence at the Radboud University and received my Master of Science (MSc.) degree. Between 2011 and 2017 I worked as a Software Developer and Data Scientist at 123test. Next to this, I have been working as a freelance software developer for small to large sized companies since 2009.

This website is a portfolio of things I work on, both professionally and as a hobby (e.g., home automation). Not all content is 100% tech-focussed; I like to cook a wide range of dishes, some of which you can read more about on my food blog.

Work experience

Aug 2021 - present
Chief Innovation Officer, Aiosyn
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
PhD on deep learning for improved prognostics in prostate cancer, Radboud University Medical Center
Sept 2009 - Aug 2021
Freelance web & software developer, OuterHills
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Data Scientist, 123test (.com /.nl) & TestingTalents
Feb 2011 - Mar 2016
Software Developer, 123test (.com /.nl) & TestingTalents
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
Research intern, DoBots & Almende, on indoor localisation and the autonomous localisation of wireless sensor networks for the ‘Internet of Things’.

Publications

Only publications as first author, see my Google Scholar for the full list. Most of my publications also have an associated blog post which you can find in my list of posts tagged with ‘research’.

  • Bulten, W., Kartasalo, K., Chen, PH.C. et al. “Artificial intelligence for diagnosis and Gleason grading of prostate cancer: the PANDA challenge.", in: Nature Medicine, 2022, Read online
  • W. Bulten, et al. “Artificial intelligence assistance significantly improves Gleason grading of prostate biopsies by pathologists”, in: Modern Pathology, 2021, Read online
  • W. Bulten, et al. “Automated deep-learning system for Gleason grading of prostate cancer using biopsies: a diagnostic study”, in: The Lancet Oncology, 2020, Read online
  • W. Bulten and G. Litjens. “Unsupervised Prostate Cancer Detection on H&E using Convolutional Adversarial Autoencoders”, in: Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2018, Read online
  • W. Bulten, et al. “Epithelium segmentation using deep learning in H&E-stained prostate specimens with immunohistochemistry as reference standard." in: Scientific reports 9.1 (2019): 864. Read online
  • W. Bulten, G. J. S. Litjens, C. A. Hulsbergen-van de Kaa, and J. van der Laak, “Automated segmentation of epithelial tissue in prostatectomy slides using deep learning,” in Medical Imaging 2018: Digital Pathology, vol. 10581, 2018. Read online
  • W. Bulten, A. van Rossum, and W. Haselager, “Human SLAM, Indoor Localisation of Devices and Users”, in The 1st IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2016), Berlin, Germany, 2016. Read online. View slides online
  • W. Bulten, W. Haselager, and I. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper “Sharing Blood: A Decentralised Trust and Sharing Ecosystem based on the Vampire Bat,” in The 24th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC) 2012, Proceedings of the 24th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Maastricht, The Netherlands, ISSN 1568-7805, pp. 35–42. Online proceedings

Media

Overview of various news item related to my (PhD) research; only English and Dutch items shown.

Education

Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University
Sept 2012 - Aug 2015
Cum Laude Master of Science (MSc.) in Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University
Sept 2009 - Aug 2012
Cum Laude Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University