Health Data Science Event 2023 - Artificial intelligence in health data science and health care

The yearly scientific event on Health data science took place again on August 17th, 2023. Due to the fast-paced development and a leap taken in AI, the theme of the event was artificial intelligence in health data science and health care. The programme was created based on speaker suggestions from the community.

Program

Coffee starting at 9.00

9.15 – 9.25 Update on the health data science strategic profiling and secure data analysis environment. Prof. Matti Nykter (bioinformatics), Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU. 

9.30 – 9.35 Video “Data – helping health care professionals and patients“  by Marker Wizards and TAU team (K. Aho,  M. van Gils, J. Nevalainen, A. Auvinen, M. Nykter). Kaisa Aho, Senior Specialist, TAU.

9.35 – 9.45 Large Language Models for Decision Support in Healthcare – hype or no hype? Pinja Karttunen, Intern, and Prof. Mark van Gils (digital healthcare), Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU.   

9.50 – 10.00 Trustworthy AI for healthcare Lab at TUNI. Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU. 

10.05 – 10.15 Big Data Approaches for Chemical & Drug Safety Assessment. Prof. Dario Greco (bioinformatics), Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU. 

10.20 – 10.30 On a quest to find cell types – Applying statistical learning to noisy gene expression data. Antti Kiviaho, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU.  

Break 10.35 – 10.50

10.50 – 11.00 AI and risk prediction in cardiovascular diseases  – Not worth it, unless the idea is good. Prof. Jussi Hernesniemi (cardiology), Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU;  Chief Physician, Tays Heart Hospital. 

11.05 – 11.15 Impact of mammographic technique on radiomic analysis for breast cancer risk assessment. Nicole Hernández, Researcher and Otso Arponen, Principal Investigator, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU; Department of Radiology, TAUH.

11.20 – 11.30 AI in Clinical Pathology. Teemu Tolonen, Head of Department (pathology), Fimlab. 

11.35 – 11.45 Machine Learning in Health and Medicine: Ethical Perspectives.  Otto Sahlgren, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, TAU. 

11.50 – 12.00 Language models and privacy in health data science.  Mikko Lehtimäki, Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, TAU.  

12.05 – 12.10 The European Artificial Intelligence Act and related standardisation. Alpo Värri, Research Director, Faculty of Medicine and Health Techonology, TAU.

12.15 -13 Lunch