{"id":14457,"date":"2024-07-18T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/?p=14457"},"modified":"2024-07-18T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:19:46","slug":"inescs-cutting-edge-ai-innovations-in-health-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/?p=14457","title":{"rendered":"INESC’s Cutting-Edge AI Innovations in Health Systems\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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INESC's Cutting-Edge AI Innovations in Health Systems <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Advancing Intelligent Care: Bridging AI and Health Systems through INESC Innovations<\/span>\u202f\u00a0<\/h3>

This year, at <\/span>Encontro Ci\u00eancia 2024<\/span><\/a> (Porto, 3-5 July 2024), the INESC group hosted the session \u201cAdvancing Intelligent Care: Bridging AI and Health Systems through INESC Innovations<\/strong>\u201d under the conference motto “Science for Health and Global Well-Being<\/strong>“. This event brought together researchers from the five INESC institutions – <\/span>INESC Coimbra<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>INESC-ID<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>INESC-MN<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>INESC INOV<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>INESC TEC<\/span><\/a> – along with healthcare stakeholders.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cEncontro Ci\u00eancia\u201d is the major science conference organized by the Portuguese Government through the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education (MCTES), Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia (FCT), Universidade do Porto, and Ci\u00eancia Viva. Held annually, the conference highlights Portugal\u2019s key achievements in science and technology.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0The session focus on significant R&D&I contributions towards Intelligent Care at the INESCs, highlighting the emerging contributions from the research institutes across four major pillars:\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

  1. Prospects for Smart Monitoring and Pathology Screening:<\/strong> Microelectronics and nanotechnologies for biosensing; Federated pan-European health data management infrastructures;\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  2. Intelligent Medical Decision (including precision diagnosis, prognosis, prescription)<\/strong>: Ongoing breakthroughs in the scope of healthy aging and chronic, infectious, neurological, psychiatric, and oncological diseases; Responsible AI; Successful hospital deployment of XR to aid medical training and decision-making;\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  3. Intelligent Treatment to Restore and Promote Health<\/strong>: Care optimization, control & planning (radiotherapy, anesthesia, rehabilitation); Robotic systems and intelligent agents for critical handling and social care; Multi-omics data analysis for novel molecular therapies; Micro-organisms in point-of-care;\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  4. Key Enabling Principles for Effective Intelligent Care:<\/strong> Governance guidelines, attitudes, policies, and SMART action plans;\u202f<\/span>\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol>

    Moderated by Al\u00edpio Jorge (FCUP and INESC TEC), the session featured engaging presentations showcasing innovative projects from the five research institutions. Joana Dias (University of Coimbra and INESC Coimbra), kicked off the presentstions with her work on “Reinforcement Learning and Quadratic Optimization for Optimal Radiotherapy Treatment Planning.” Following her, Ana Madureira (ISEP and INESC INOV) introduced the ambitious “eHospital4Future” project, which aims to build a digitally skilled and innovative hospital for the future. Diogo Caetano (T\u00e9cnico and INESC MN) shared the insights from the Bactometer Project which utilizes spintronics and machine learning for rapid detection of multi-resistant bacteria. Rui Henriques (T\u00e9cnico and INESC ID) highlighted ongoing advances in human health technologies in several reserch fields ongoign at INESC-ID. Rounding out the presentations, H\u00e9lder P. Oliveira (FCUP nad INESC TEC), discussed the project AI4Lungs and the development of AI-based personalized care for respiratory diseases using multi-modal data for patient stratification.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    The session also featured contributions from Dr. Cristina Barbara (Unidade Local de Sa\u00fade de Santa Maria and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon) and Dr. Tatiana Pinheiro (Director of the Innovation and Projects Department at Unidade Local de Santo Ant\u00f3nio). They provided valuable insights into the adoption of new technologies, digital literacy, regulation, and the future perspectives for AI technologies in clinical settings. Their discussions emphasized the significant gains achieved through the partnerships established by the showcased projects.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    This session offered a glimpse into the cutting-edge research and technological advancements happening across these institutions, with examples of EU-funded projects. It positioned INESC Group institutions as entities of reference in AI for Health within a European competitive environment, potentially serving as a foundation for future institutional collaboration initiatives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    S\u00edlvia Castro
    <\/strong>Head of the Innovation Management Office at INESC-ID<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    INESC’s Cutting-Edge AI Innovations in Health Systems Advancing Intelligent Care: Bridging AI and Health Systems through INESC Innovations\u202f\u00a0 This year, at Encontro Ci\u00eancia 2024 (Porto, 3-5 July 2024), the INESC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-1820"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14457"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}