Pieter De Backer

Pieter De Backer leads Orsi Innotech, the AI and innovation team at Orsi Academy, which is one of Europe’s largest surgical training centres.  Pieter’s team focusses on technology development which directly improves minimal invasive surgery through advanced multimodal AI approaches.  More specifically, the team applies machine and deep learning techniques to automatically assess and augment surgical performance in real-time.  Pieter holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering on the topic of AI in robotic surgery, he was trained as an engineer and is currently finishing his residency in urology. His clinical interests entail minimal invasive surgery and urologic oncology.