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Technical Keynote Lecture
Prof. Frans Coenen (University of Liverpool)
What has AI ever done for Health Care?
AbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) in its many forms is increasingly seen by governments and governmental organisations as the panacea to the increasing funding crisis within health care. A funding crisis fuelled, to a large extent, by an increase in life expectancy of the global population. But can AI really plug this funding gap? This presentation will consider what AI can do for health care in terms of eight “spheres” of interest: from early diagnosis and prediction, to end of life care. There are, of course, challenges to the uptake of AI, both from the perspective of the providers and regulators of health care, and those at the receiving end of health care. In many areas there is a certain amount of “reticence” with respect to the technology! These challenges are also explored in the presentation. Frans Coenen is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at The University of Liverpool. He has been working in the field of AI for some 38 years, especially in the context of Machine and Deep Learning. He is particularly interested in the application of the techniques of Machine/Deep Learning and AI to medical applications, such as: (i) medical 2D and 3D image analysis (currently electrocardiogram and echocardiogram data), (ii) the analysis of Flow Cytometry (blood cell) data, (iii) triage in accident and emergency departments and (iv) explanation generation in the context of medical prediction. He has supervised over 70 PhD students working on many aspects of AI, especially in the context of health care, and over 35 post-doctoral research associates working on funded projects; he has some 450 refereed research publications and has been on the programme committees for many Machine Learning conferences and related events.
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