About

Andre Esteva is a researcher and entrepreneur in medical artificial intelligence. He currently serves as CEO of Artera, and was previously Head of Medical AI at Salesforce Research. He has worked at Google Research, Sandia National Labs, GE Healthcare, and has co-founded four companies.

His research efforts have largely focused on medical AI diagnostics and precision medicine. His publications have made the covers of Nature and Nature Medicine, and have been featured in Cell, The Lancet, NeurIPS, and similar venues. These works have been widely covered by the WSJ, Fortune, BBC, The Economist, and hundreds of other news outlets.

He obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford, where his research was in deep learning and computer vision applied to healthcare. He finished undergraduate degrees with highest honors in Electrical Engineering and Pure Math from UT-Austin and was awarded Engineering Valedictorian (formally, the Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award).

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How AI Can Make Cancer Treatment More Equitable

Andre Esteva

TIME, October 2023

Artificial Intelligence Predictive Model for Hormone Therapy Use in Prostate Cancer

Daniel E Spratt, Siyi Tang, Yilun Sun, Huei-Chung Huang, Emmalyn Chen, Osama Mohamad, Andrew J Armstrong, Jonathan D Tward, Paul L Nguyen, Joshua M Lang, Jingbin Zhang, Akinori Mitani, Jeffry P Simko, Sandy DeVries, Douwe van der Wal, Hans Pinckaers, Jedidiah M Monson, Holly A Campbell, James Wallace, Michelle J Ferguson, Jean-Paul Bahary, Edward M Schaeffer, Howard M Sandler, Phuoc T Tran, Joseph P Rodgers, Andre Esteva, Rikiya Yamashita, Felix Y Feng

New England Journal of Medicine (Evidence), July 2023

Reporting guideline for the early-stage clinical evaluation of decision support systems driven by artificial intelligence: DECIDE-AI

Baptiste Vasey, Myura Nagendran, Bruce Campbell, David A. Clifton, Gary S. Collins, Spiros Denaxas, Alastair K. Denniston, Livia Faes, Bart Geerts, Mudathir Ibrahim, Xiaoxuan Liu, Bilal A. Mateen, Piyush Mathur, Melissa D. McCradden, Lauren Morgan, Johan Ordish, Campbell Rogers, Suchi Saria, Daniel S. W. Ting, Peter Watkinson, Wim Weber, Peter Wheatstone, Peter McCulloch \& the DECIDE-AI expert group

Nature Medicine, May 2022

Prostate cancer therapy personalization via multi-modal deep learning on randomized phase III clinical trials

Andre Esteva, Jean Feng, Douwe van der Wal, Shih-Cheng Huang, Jeffry P. Simko, Sandy DeVries, Emmalyn Chen, Edward M. Schaeffer, Todd M. Morgan, Yilun Sun, Amirata Ghorbani, Nikhil Naik, Dhruv Nathawani, Richard Socher, Jeff M. Michalski, Mack Roach III, Thomas M. Pisansky, Jedidiah M. Monson, Farah Naz, James Wallace, Michelle J. Ferguson, Jean-Paul Bahary, James Zou, Matthew Lungren, Serena Yeung, Ashley E. Ross, NRG Prostate Cancer AI Consortium, Howard M. Sandler, Phuoc T. Tran, Daniel E. Spratt, Stephanie Pugh, Felix Y. Feng & Osama Mohamad

Nature Digital Medicine, June 2022
1st most read Nature DM paper of a similar age

A quality assessment tool for artificial intelligence-centered diagnostic test accuracy studies: QUADAS-AI

Viknesh Sounderajah, Hutan Ashrafian, Sherri Rose, Nigam H Shah, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Robert Golub, Charles E Kahn, Andre Esteva, Alan Karthikesalingam, Bilal Mateen, Dale Webster, Dan Milea, Daniel Ting, Darren Treanor, Dominic Cushnan, Dominic King, Duncan McPherson, Ben Glocker, Felix Greaves, Leanne Harling, Johan Ordish, Jérémie F Cohen, Jon Deeks, Mariska Leeflang, Matthew Diamond, Matthew DF McInnes, Melissa McCradden, Michael D Abràmoff, Pasha Normahani, Sheraz R Markar, Stephanie Chang, Xiaoxuan Liu, Susan Mallett, Shravya Shetty, Alastair Denniston, Gary S Collins, David Moher, Penny Whiting, Patrick M Bossuyt, Ara Darzi

Nature Medicine, October 2021

Biological data annotation via a human-augmenting AI-based labeling system

Douwe van der Wal, Iny Jhun, Israa Laklouk, Jeff Nirschl, Lara Richer, Rebecca Rojansky, Talent Theparee, Joshua Wheeler, Jörg Sander, Felix Feng, Osama Mohamad, Silvio Savarese, Richard Socher, Andre Esteva

Nature Digital Medicine, October 2021
Psychology Today

CO-Search: COVID-19 Information Retrieval with Semantic Search, Question Answering, and Abstractive Summarization

Andre Esteva, Anuprit Kale, Romain Paulus, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenpeng Yin, Dragomir Radev, Richard Socher

Nature Digital Medicine, April 2021
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Deep learning-enabled medical computer vision

Andre Esteva, Katherine Chou, Serena Yeung, Nikhil Naik, Ali Madani, Ali Mottaghi, Yun Liu, Eric Topol, Jeff Dean & Richard Socher

Nature Digital Medicine, January 2021
3rd most read Nature DM paper of a similar age

Deep learning-enabled breast cancer hormonal receptor status determination from base-level H&E stains.

Nikhil Naik, Ali Madani, Andre Esteva, Nitish Keskar, Michael Press, Dan Ruderman, David Agus, Richard Socher

Nature Communications, November 2020
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Best practices for authors of healthcare-related artificial intelligence manuscripts

Sujay Kakarmath, Andre Esteva, Rima Arnaout, Hugh Harvey, Santosh Kumar, Evan Muse, Feng Dong, Leia Wedlund & Joseph Kvedar

Nature Digital Medicine, October 2020

1. Reporting guidelines for clinical trial reports for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the CONSORT-AI extension

2. Guidelines for clinical trial protocols for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the SPIRIT-AI Extension

Xiaoxuan Liu, Samantha Cruz Rivera, David Moher, Melanie J. Calvert, Alastair K. Denniston Aaron Y. Lee, Adrian Jonas, An-Wen Chan, Ara Darzi, Christopher Holmes, Christopher Yau, Hutan Ashrafian, Jonathan J. Deeks, Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano, Livia Faes, Pearse A. Keane, Sebastian J. Vollmer, Andre Esteva , Andrew L. Beam, An-Wen Chan, Maria Beatrice Panico, Cecilia S. Lee, Charlotte Haug, Christopher J. Kelly, Christopher Yau, Cynthia Mulrow, Cyrus Espinoza, John Fletcher, David Moher, Dina Paltoo, Elaine Manna, Gary Price, Gary S. Collins, Hugh Harvey, James Matcham, Joao Monteiro, M. Khair ElZarrad, Lavinia Ferrante di Ruffano, Luke Oakden-Rayner, Melanie J. Calvert, Melissa McCradden, Pearse A. Keane, Richard Savage, Robert Golub, Rupa Sarkar & Samuel Rowley

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Nature Medicine: CONSORT-AI, SPIRIT-AI
The Lancet Digital Health: CONSORT-AI, SPIRIT-AI
The British Medical Journal (BMJ): CONSORT-AI, SPIRIT-AI

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Notable Advances of 2020, Nature Medicine

A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring

Seung-min Park, Daeyoun D. Won, Brian J. Lee, Diego Escobedo, Andre Esteva, Amin Aalipour, T. Jessie Ge, Jung Ha Kim, Susie Suh, Elliot H. Choi, Alexander X. Lozano, Chengyang Yao, Sunil Bodapati, Friso B. Achterberg, Jeesu Kim, Hwan Park, Youngjae Choi, Woo Jin Kim, Jung Ho Yu, Alexander M. Bhatt, Jong Kyun Lee, Ryan Spitler, Shan X. Wang & Sanjiv S. Gambhir

Nature Biomedical Engineering, April 2020
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Ranked #1 amongst all Nature BME papers
Covered by over 100 news outlets
Tweeted over 15,000 times

Can skin cancer diagnosis be transformed by AI?

Andre Esteva, Eric Topol

The Lancet, November 2019
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A Guide to Deep Learning in Healthcare

Andre Esteva^*, Alexandre Robicquet^*, Bharath Ramsundar^#, Volodymr Kuleshov^#, Katherine Chou^#, Mark DePristo^#, Claire Cui^†, Greg Corrado^†, Sebastian Thrun^†, Jeff Dean
^*equal contribution authors
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Nature Medicine, January 2019
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Ranked #8 amongst all Nature Medicine papers of a similar age
Covered by 5 news outlets
Tweeted over 600 times

In Silico Labeling: Predicting Fluorescent Labels in Unlabeled Images

Eric Christiansen*, Samuel Yang, Dale Ando^#, Ashkan Javaherian^#, Gaia Skibinski^#, Scott Lipnick,^#, Elliot Mount^†, Alison O’Neil^†, Kevan Shah^†, Alicia K. Lee^†, Piyush Goyal^†, Liam Fedus^†, Ryan Poplin^†, Andre Esteva, Lee Rubin, Philip Nelson*, Steven Finkbeiner*
^#These authors made comparable contributions
^†These authors made comparable contributions

Cell, April 2018
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