Dean’s Award on the occasion of graduation (2018) Award for the Best Publication of the Year granted by the Slovak Gastroenterology Society (2022)

APVV-16-0211: Computer-Based Decision Support System for Hepatic Encephalopathy (budget: €250,000) 09-I05-03-V02-00044: AI-Boosted Imaging for Glioma Analysis, Identification, and Localization ( budget: €1,000,000 (ABIGAIL))

Jakub Gazda completed a three-month international fellowship as a visiting postdoctoral researcher in 2022 at the Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome and Policlinico Umberto I. During this stay, he established the foundations of international scientific collaboration with the team of Manuela Merli, primarily focused on complications of liver cirrhosis. He subsequently completed a one-year clinical and research fellowship at the Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic Barcelona and University of Barcelona, where he established international collaboration with the team of Juan Carlos García-Pagán. This collaboration focuses on vascular liver diseases.

Jakub Gazda also maintains a long-standing and close collaboration with the Intelligent Information Systems Lab at the Technical University of Košice, focusing on the identification of clinically relevant problems and the development of solutions enabled by artificial intelligence.

Selected Publications: Gazda J, García-Pagán JC, Drazilova S, Drotar P, Hires M, Gazda M, Janicko M, Baiges A, Jarcuska P. Prospective evaluation of speech as a digital biomarker for covert hepatic encephalopathy. NPJ Digital Medicine. 2025 Dec 22. Gazda M, Gazda J, Kadoury S, Kanasz R, Drotar P. echoGAN: Extending the field of view in Transthoracic Echocardiography through conditional GAN-based outpainting. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2025 Sep 1;269:108869. Gazda M, Plavka J, Gazda J, Drotar P. Self-supervised deep convolutional neural network for chest X-ray classification. IEEE Access. 2021 Nov 4;9:151972-82. Di Cola S, Gazda J, Lapenna L, Ceccarelli G, Merli M. Infection prevention and control programme and COVID-19 measures: Effects on hospital-acquired infections in patients with cirrhosis. JHEP Reports. 2023 May 1;5(5):100703. Gazda J, Drazilova S, Gazda M, Janicko M, Koky T, Macej M, Carbone M, Jarcuska P. Treatment response to ursodeoxycholic acid in primary biliary cholangitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Digestive and Liver Disease. 2023 Oct 1;55(10):1318-27. Gazda J, Drotar P, Drazilova S, Gazda J, Gazda M, Janicko M, Jarcuska P. Artificial intelligence and its application to minimal hepatic encephalopathy diagnosis. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2021 Oct 26;11(11):1090. Gazda J, Drazilova S, Janicko M, Jarcuska P. The epidemiology of primary biliary cholangitis in European countries: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2021;2021(1):9151525.