AI4HF (EU project)

????-???????????????? ???? ?????? ?????????? ?????????????? ???????? ???????????????? ?????? ???????????????????? ???? ?? ?????????????????? ???????????????? ? The AI4HF (EU project) brings together patients and clinicians from Europe, Africa, and South America to co-create AI tools for heart failure care. As part of ongoing discussions on AI's role in healthcare, a series of workshops have been conducted to gather feedback on the integration of AI tools in heart failure care. ? ???????? ????????????????: 1) Patients and clinicians emphasised the importance of clear and accessible content, such as short videos to improve accessibility. 2) It was widely agreed that AI should complement decision-making while preserving the essential human element of healthcare. These discussions are important to ensuring that AI-driven tools are not only scientifically effective but also practical and accessible in real-world healthcare settings.? ? ??Looking ahead, the next round of Local Working Group Workshops in Summer 2025 will focus on: ＊Gathering feedback on AI-powered risk prediction tools for heart failure. ＊Exploring potential bias factors in heart failure care across different local contexts. #AI4HF #ArtificialIntelligence #HeartFailure #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCare?

?? highlight from the ESC Spring Summit! On March 7, Dr. Folkert Asselbergs, the Scientific Coordinator of our project, presented at the ESC Spring Summit on the topic "?????? ????-???????????????? ???????????????????? ?????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? – ??????"??? During his presentation, he explored the potential of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing clinical practice. He highlighted how AI can support clinicians in making more informed, evidence-based decisions, ultimately improving patient outcomes through smarter, data-driven approaches. The integration of AI into clinical settings and EHR systems holds the promise of streamlining workflows, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, and advancing patient care. #ESCSpringSummit #Cardiology #EHR #HealthcareInnovation?

At the ???????????? ???????????? ???????? of the European Society of Cardiology, Prof. Karim Lekadir presented on best practices for trustworthy and ethical AI in cardiology. His talk focused on the ????????????-???? guideline, addressing how AI can be integrated in a trustworthy way to ensure acceptance and adoption in clinical practice. He shared insights on AI’s role in shaping the future of cardiovascular medicine, emphasizing transparency and maintaining trust in AI-driven technologies. ?? ???????????????? ?????????????????????? ???? ?????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? remains a key topic as innovations continue to shape the future of healthcare. Discussions like these are essential to ensuring AI technologies support patient care while meeting the highest standards of clinical excellence. #ESCSpringSummit #FUTUREAI #Cardiology #ArtificialIntelligence #HealthcareInnovation

?? ???????????????????? ?????? ????????????-???? ?????????????? ????????????! We are excited to launch the FUTURE-AI Webinar Series, designed to dive deeper into the #FUTUREAI guideline for trustworthy AI and continue the conversation about advancing AI in healthcare.? ?? ?????? ????????: ???????????????????????? ?????? ?????????????????????? ???? ???? ????????????????????? ???? ????????. ???????? ??????????????, ???????????????????? ???? ????????????, ????? The success of AI in healthcare depends on trust, which requires transparency across the entire AI lifecycle. But how can we ensure transparency in AI-driven healthcare solutions?? In our first session, we are honored to welcome Gary Collins, Professor of Medical Statistics at University of Oxford and co-author of the BMJ article on the FUTURE-AI guideline. He will address the critical importance of transparency for fostering trustworthy AI in healthcare, from the initial stages of model development through rigorous evaluation in clinical trials. ?? Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025? ? Time: 14:00 CET (Central European Time) | Duration: 1 hour? ?? Location: Online via Zoom (details upon registration)? ?? ????????????????? ?????? ????????:? https://lnkd.in/dTi3UsMV ? This is just the beginning! More webinars will follow—stay tuned by joining the ????????????-???? ?????????????? via https://future-ai.eu/ #FUTUREAI #AI #AIinHealthcare #Transparency #TrustworthyAI #MedicalAI #Webinar?Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab (BCN-AIM) AI4HF (EU project) EuCanImage RadioVal LongITools Project YouthGEMs AIMIX Project DataTools4Heart THE STAGE PROJECT

On #ValentinesDay, let’s talk about the importance of protecting your #heart! The #HorizonEU AI4HF (EU project) helps people living with chronic heart failure, using Artificial Intelligence to provide personalised risk assessment and care plans: https://lnkd.in/eUjgqihs

In Paris now for the OECD - OCDE High-Level Policy Forum on New Frontiers for Social Policy: Investing in the Future (February 13, 2025) Some key takeaways so far: ?? Tech alone will not allow for a fairer society, we need to bridge the gaps in inclusivity and equality, namely gender gaps - and #AI brings an additional challenge! ?? Inequalities are rising in the OECD area for the last 4 decades and intergenerational mobility is no longer seen as possible ?? No young person should be forced to leave their country for lack of opportunities - societies that provide opportunities for their youth are more resilient at OECD And this last idea comes from the Portuguese Minister of Youth and Modernisation of Portugal Margarida Balseiro Lopes, one of the events co-organiser, together with the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy of Spain led by Yolanda Díaz Perez, and in partnership with AARP and Funda??o Calouste Gulbenkian. The OECD Social Policy Forum brings together Ministers and other high-level policy makers, as well as a range of different stakeholders, including social partners, civil society and academia, to discuss issues such as: How can new digital technologies and data be mobilised to improve the coverage and delivery of social programmes? What are the most pressing employment and social challenges facing diverse groups? And what key social protection tools should be embedded in strategies for a fair green transition? More info at: https://lnkd.in/dytqi5eC A really relevant set of challenges for which we all need good and effective answers and measures, really soon - all quite relevant for SHINE 2Europe and the SHAFE Foundation! And the "icing on the cake", having great conversations and dinner with long-time and recent friends, Lars Münter and Nina Soenderberg ?? Priority 45 project NewEcoSmart OneAquaHealth Project RadioVal AI4HF (EU project) FITT_NESSproject CO-SECUR SIRENE NET4Age-Friendly #DigitalScouts #YoungCare #AFECO #Memorable #AGEMEDU

Exciting opportunity! ?? AI4HF is hiring a Postdoc in AI-driven personalised medicine for cardiovascular diseases. Only 5 days left to apply! Don’t miss out join us in Barcelona! ???

Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon 9 in Tachikawa, Tokyo. The workshop revolved around a key theme: “Ensuring Robustness in LLM-based Research: Reproducibility, Interoperability, and Reliable Evaluation.” It was an incredible opportunity to advance the project "MultiSynDS: Large-Scale Multilingual Synthetic Discharge Summary Generation Using Generative LLMs and Clinical Case Report Transformation." Our primary focus was leveraging an LLM-as-a-judge approach to assess the quality of discharge summaries generated by Large Language Models in the Cardiology domain. We also explored how these evaluations correlate with expert annotations provided by Cardiologist Dr. Leticia Fernández López. This dataset will be of key interest for tasks such as Data Augmentation for clinical NLP systems training, providing them with data samples similar to real life reports created in clinical sites such as hospitals. The organization of the Hackathon was exceptional, thanks to the efforts of the organizers and our excellent hosts at Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS-DS) and Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS). A special mention goes to Jindong Kim for his outstanding presentations and event management throughout the workshop. A big thank you to Saurabh N. for being an outstanding collaborator during the hackathon and helping achieve meaningful results. I’m also deeply grateful to Dr. Martin Krallinger and Dr. Carlos Escolano from Barcelona Supercomputing Center for their expert guidance and support throughout this ambitious project within the frameworks of DataTools4Heart and AI4HF (EU project). BLAH9 webpage: https://lnkd.in/dm5h7rxK MultiSynDS: https://lnkd.in/d3Khs2eg NLP4BIA Group: https://lnkd.in/d64jq8vh

?? Over 50 active participants in the International Workshop Design and?Implementation of?Inclusive?Clinical?Studies, organised by SHINE 2Europe on 21st?January 2025.? ? The event explored this topic within 4 projects RadioVal, Liveration, AI4HF (EU project) and IHI READI, all in which clinical studies play a central role. ? Designing inclusive clinical studies is often challenging due to time, human, and financial constraints, which tend to overload the professionals developing them, but overlooking inclusivity poses an even greater risk: the exclusion of underrepresented groups from research and even from optimal medical care. During the workshop, a wide audience – including researchers, healthcare professionals, AI and IT developers, ethicists, regulators, policymakers, social scientists and patients – analised the main challenges to achieve more inclusive clinical studies, potential solutions and the relevant stakeholders involved in each. ? Four high-level speakers presented the featured projects, focusing on the clinical studies aspects, and providing insights into how aspects of diversity, equity and inclusion have been considered in the design and will be further addressed in the implementation of such studies. The group of participants was then divided into three break-out rooms to discuss in-depth the challenges for inclusive clinical studies, divided into different domains, such as ethical, legal, social, technical, organisational and others. Then, in each group, the challenges were prioritised and the one considered as most pressing was further analised in terms of potential solutions and the relevant actors that can enable such results. ? During the discussion, several challenges emerged, such as:? ?? Literacy, namely health, digital and traditional literacy ??Diversity, equity, and inclusion training for all stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of clinical studies, especially for clinical and research teams ??More flexibility in the application of a study protocol, to encourage inclusion? ??Access, on a geographical base, as trials are often conducted in urban or academic centres, limiting access for rural (or smaller towns) populations? ? A very urgent challenge identified was also the limited time and funding available for trials and clinical studies, which significantly impacts their implementation.? Proposed solutions included calling on the European Commission to design calls for proposals that better address the specific needs of trials, promoting greater collaboration to overcome organisational barriers and using innovative digital tools along with comprehensive routine data collection for patient selection, thereby ensuring greater equity. Miriam Cabrita Paola Bello Alberto M. Borobia Maciej Bobowicz Saskia Haitjema Alexandra Dima

During 2024 and synergising with several SHINE 2Europe projects such as RadioVal, AI4HF (EU project), GoodBrother COST Action, we advanced on #Ethical issues and #Biases concerning #ArtificialIntelligence and #Health - towards a more #TrustworthyAI implementation ?? Sharing some reading links: ?? https://lnkd.in/dCF4ygTc ??https://lnkd.in/dKdAQQ2x ??https://lnkd.in/dk_pVZbs