ProCAncer-I at the “Al and Cancer: Unleashing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges” workshop

Published on: November 16, 2023
Categories: News

240 professionals from more than 20 countries registered for the workshop event ’Al and Cancer: Unleashing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges’, coorganized by INCISIVE, EUCAIM, and the AI4HI cluster, with the local support of Medtronic and TIC Salut Social Foundation, the 7th of November in Madrid, Spain.

The workshop joined clinicians, researchers, AI developers, lawyers, innovation managers, and other professionals interested in oncology and AI working in hospitals, universities, research institutes, research infrastructures, and private companies. During the event, speakers and attendants jointly explored how AI powered by health data sharing can transform cancer challenges into remarkable opportunities, in the following roundtables: introduction to medical imaging repositories and their importance in research and clinical practice; the process, benefits and challenges of data sharing; developed services and emerging technologies and tools for cancer medical imaging data analysis and visualization; and success stories of cancer medical imaging in advancing cancer research and patient care.

Mr. Kostas Marias, Head of the Computational BioMedical Lab of FORTH and Technical Director of ProCAncer-I project, presented the challenges related to multi-center data collection and AI modeling

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The ProCAncer-I at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) in Malta

The ProCAncer-I at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) in Malta

The ProCAncer-I Consortium is organising a mini symposium under the scope Data Engineering in Cancer, chaired by prof. Dimitris Fotiadis and are inviting every interested stakeholder to participate. The mini symposium will take place during the IEEE EMBS International Conference on Data Science and Engineering in Healthcare, Medicine & Biology, in Malta (Hilton Malta Hotel) on December 7, 2023 – December 9, 2023, on the second day.

Prof Tsiknakis: Launch of the federal European infrastructure for cancer imaging

Prof Tsiknakis: Launch of the federal European infrastructure for cancer imaging

The EUCAIM (European Federation for Cancer Images) project is the cornerstone of the European Cancer Imaging Initiative, launched by the European Commission, within the framework of the European Beating Cancer Plan, emphasized Prof. Manolis Tsiknakis, as Coordinator of the ProCAncer-I project and Affiliated Professor at the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory (CBML), speaking at the Health IT conference.

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