Artificial Intelligence for Health

From 22 to 25 January, EPFL will be hosting the third workshop/meeting of FG-AI4H at the Swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne. With this email, I would like to inform you of our activities as well as extend an invitation to you and your colleagues to become involved in this important project. In particular, we hope to see you at the workshop/meeting in Lausanne. Participation in FG-AI4H is free of charge and open to all.
 
The workshop/meeting details, including registration, can be found here.
 
The objective of AI4H is to establish a standardized assessment framework for the evaluation of AI-based methods for health, diagnosis, triage, or treatment deci​sions. With this objective in mind, AI4H has launched a Call for proposals: use cases and data (available here). “Use cases” refers to medical conditions that can be diagnosed with AI and for which medical data are available. This call is targeted at academics and researchers in the healthcare domain. The resulting proposals are to be presented and evaluated at the workshop/meetings. During the previous workshop/meeting at Columbia University, New York, eight use cases were accepted by FG-AI4H that ranged from assessing the risk of breast cancer to assessing the risk of breast cancer. The press release, including the details of the use cases, can be found here.
 
As AI4H approaches its third meeting in Lausanne,  the next phase will include sharing training data from these use cases with AI developers. As a result, iterant Calls for AI technology for health will be published. These AI applications will be tested using confidential data from the respective use cases. As you can infer, the success of this project depends on active participation of the medical and machine learning research communities. Please visit the above links, consider the importance of this project, and become involved either by submitting use cases or data or by attending the workshop/meeting in Lausanne.