NEWS The AI Council at the Faculty of Medicine, MAI, has organized the international mini-symposium "AI in Precision Medicine – Latest Development and Future Directions" and a retreat in Granö. The participants gave the arrangement high marks, and a majority want to continue with the network.
The rapid development of tools and models based on artificial intelligence, AI, has attracted widespread attention and interest and is considered a new technological revolution on a global scale. To provide current information on AI models, MAI invited leading experts in the field to share their exciting research and clinical practice.
Björn Rotter, head of the company Genxpro, Frankfurt, Germany, presented its specialized AI tools, which have been used for the discovery of new biomarkers and therapeutic drugs for cancer.
Diagnoses and prognoses
Kevin Sandeman, section manager for clinical pathology, Scania University Hospital in Malmö, presented his experiences of establishing a national network and digital health. The pathologist Felicia-Elena Marginean presented her project to develop and apply AI tools in the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer, and Nina Sundström, Department of Radiation Sciences, talked about the successes of AIM North, a competence center for applied AI in clinical research and development.
Open database
During the afternoon session, Roxana Daneshjou, a leading expert and clinician in the application of AI tools at Stanford University, presented her unique research. She gave exciting information about how Stanford University and hospitals are making their database available and open to enable the development and optimization of new AI models.
Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford University, at the mini-symposium.
ImageClaes BjörnbergFehmi Ben Abdesslem from RISE and Karolinska Hospital gave an educational lecture about the history of AI and how AI tools are used in different fields.
The AI Council's vision
22 experts participated in the event in Granö for 1.5 days. Sessions 1 and 2 touched on lessons learned in establishing strategic, multidisciplinary centers of excellence and AI collaborations in research. Jenny Persson, professor of tumor biology and chairman of MAI, presented the council's vision, long-term goals and strategic action plans and activities.
The structure of the newly formed UmU AI center TAIGA was presented by Nina Sundström. Carolina Wählby, Uppsala University, presented her research work, and Mattias Rantalainen from the Karolinska Institute spoke about developing AI into products on the market.
AI training
In session 3, AI training was the main topic. Madeleine Blusi gave an overview of the AI training projects that MAI has initiated and is responsible for. Karl Nyberg presented his experience as a medical student of using ChatGPT.
The meeting on 29 May was closed by Roxana Daneshjou. She gave an overview of the strategic work to develop and apply the AI tools to improve the quality of the diagnostics and the standardization of the clinical databases.
Wide network
The 30th of May began with Kalle Åström, director and coordinator of AI Lund, presented their experience in establishment of AI LUND as a Center of AI networks of multidisciplinary collaborations in research, education and innovation.
Krzysztof Bartoszek at Linköping University presented his experiences in forming educational programs in AI at bachelor's and master's level. He invited all partners for cooperation in training in AI application in medical fields.
High grades
In summary, MAI has initiated and built a network at national and international level with a focus on AI in medicine, healthcare and biomedical research. This event was very much appreciated. The majority of participants (17 out of 19) gave very good and excellent scores, 2 gave good scores, and a majority also want to continue with this network. Several participants from the other regions in Sweden and from Stanford University have already sent the message to MAI that they want to organize the next networking event in their universities and regions.