A5062707283- Advanced Vision and Imaging
- Ethics in medical practice
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Optical measurement and interference techniques
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Advanced Image Processing Techniques
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Image Processing Techniques and Applications
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research
- Image Enhancement Techniques
Université Laval
2019-2025
Université de Montréal
2004-2024
The Quebec Population Health Research Network
2022
Université de Sherbrooke
2013-2018
Ghent University
2018
McGill University
2007
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are widely used in the health care sector. Mainly applied for individualized care, AI is increasingly aimed at population health. This raises important ethical considerations but also calls responsible governance, considering that this will affect population. However, literature points to a lack of citizen participation governance Therefore, it necessary investigate and societal implications health.This study explore perspectives attitudes citizens...
Reconstruction from structured light can be greatly affected by interreflections between surfaces in the scene. This paper introduces band-pass white noise patterns designed specifically to reduce interreflections, and still robust standard challenges scanning systems such as scene depth discontinuities, defocus low camera-projector pixel ratio. While this approach uses unstructured that increase number of required projected images, it is up our knowledge first method able recover...
Informed end-of-life decision-making requires a high level of death literacy. We still know little about the general population's knowledge and its determinants. To assess population regarding legal status definitions various practices, to compare according individual characteristics known influence A self-administered questionnaire featuring two evolving vignettes was used participants' relating practices whether these are Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), which is Canada. The also assessed such...
Research shows that the age of fathers at time conception is correlated with detrimental effect for health future offspring. This situation raises ethical questions regarding priority principle reproductive autonomy men advanced over well-being their problem leads to other normative implications such as value introducing limits use medically assisted reproduction, and development public interventions. For moment, this reflection mostly speculative calls open up discussion. The aim research...
A panoramic stereo (or omnistereo) pair of images provides depth information from up to 360 degrees around a central observer. Because omnistereo lenses or mirrors do not yet exist, synthesizing requires multiple camera positions and baseline orientations. Recent methods stitch together many small field view called slits which are captured by one two cameras following circular motion. However, these produce for static scenes only. The situation is much more challenging dynamic since...
Abstract Increased paternal age has been associated with lower fertility and higher genetic risk for the offspring. One way to prevent these consequences is freeze sperm at a young age. Social freezing could be developed in similar social oocyte freezing. The main difference between oocytes that much less focussed on preservation more avoiding increased risk. Contrary what some people seem believe, complicated than it looks first sight. This article considers three practical aspects:...
Objective Access to palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care might be influenced by knowledge, attitudes, representations of these practices. Socioeconomic factors then affect what people know about EOL practices, how they perceive them. This study aims compare regarding practices including assisted suicide, medical assistance in dying, continuous sedation adults, according socioeconomic variables. Methods A cross-sectional community-based questionnaire featuring two evolving vignettes five was...
Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous long-term care (LTC) homes faced restrictions that prevented face-to-face visits. To address this challenge and maintain family connections, many LTC facilitated use of electronic tablets to connect residents with their caregivers. Our study sought explore acceptability practice among staff members managers, focusing on experiences facilitating videoconferencing. Methods A convergent mixed method research was performed. Qualitative...
Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) can be defined as the movement from one jurisdiction to another for medically assisted reproduction (MAR). CBRC raises many ethical concerns that have been addressed extensively. However, conclusions are still based on scarce evidence even considering global scale of CBRC. Empirical ethics appears a way foster this reflection while attuning it with experiences its main actors. To better understand 'in and out' situation in Canada, we conducted an...
Engaging citizens and patients in research has become a truism many fields of health research. It is now seen as laudable—if not compulsory—activity for yielding more impactful meaningful citizen/patient outcomes steering the right direction. Although this approach increasingly common commendable, we recently encountered major obstacle obtaining an ethics certificate from institutional review board (IRB) to conduct study that places perspectives on equal footing with those academic/policy...
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the health and care of older adults, with particularly negative consequences for those residing in long-term homes (LTCH) retirement (RH). To inform implementation interventions most potential impact, Healthcare Excellence Canada identified six promising practices policy options that can be introduced to ensure LTCH RH are better prepared future outbreaks. A total 22 science teams (ISTs) were funded support across their these practices. This...
Abstract How to engage the public in a reflection on most pressing ethical issues of our time? What if part solution lies adopting an interdisciplinary and collaborative strategy shed light critical bioethics? An example is Art + Bioéthique , innovative project that brought together bioethicists, art historians artists with aim expressing bioethics through arts order convey “sensitive” aspect many health ethics issues. The this was threefold: 1) identify characterize mechanisms for meeting...
We present a scanning method that recovers dense sub pixel camera-projector correspondence without requiring any photometric calibration nor preliminary knowledge of their relative geometry. Sub accuracy is achieved by considering several zero-crossings defined the difference between pairs unstructured patterns. use gray-level band-pass white noise patterns increase robustness to indirect lighting and scene discontinuities. Simulated experimental results show our geometry with high...
An omni stereo pair of images provides depth information from up to 360 degrees around a central observer. A method for synthesizing video textures was recently introduced which Based on blending overlapping videos that were filmed several seconds apart. While it produced loop able can be displayed viewer, ghosting visible within blended overlaps. This paper presents stitching render these overlaps without any ghosting. The uses graph-cut minimization. We show results scenes with differents...
An omnistereoscopic image is a pair of panoramic images that enables stereoscopic depth perception all around an observer. omnistereo projection on cylindrical display does not require tracking the observer's viewing direction. However, such introduces stereo distortions. In this article, we investigate two models for rendering 3D scenes in omnistereo. The first designed to give zero disparity errors at center visual field. second well-known slit-camera model. For both models, are shown...