AI Meet Up: AI for Healthcare

(This event will be held in English)

“AI is expected to play a role in addressing urgent healthcare challenges the world is facing, such as shortage of healthcare workers, increasing health disparities, emerging threats from global pandemics, the management of non-communicable diseases (e.g. cancer) and age-related diseases (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease) and the long trajectory for development of new drugs. In Delft, we believe that Artificial Intelligence can enable innovative approaches to health, well-being, and healthcare, and shape the future of medical professionals, patients, and their families.”
– TU Delft AI Initiative: AI for Health and Care

Join us for the fourth TU Delft AI Meet Up where we will take a closer look at the application of AI in Healthcare, together with Dr. Tom van Riet (Amsterdam UMC) and Dr. Himanshu Verma  (TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering).

Rethinking the Role of AI with Physicians in Oncology: Revealing Perspectives from Clinical and Research Practices – Himanshu Verma
The forces driving rapid advancements in AI are inherently disconnected from the study of their impact on individuals, societies, and organizations. This discrepancy manifests in a biased focus of AI development and deployment. The role and impact of AI in cancer care is similarly unbalanced – significant and rapid advancements have been made on the research side, however, AI’s role in the clinical side has been minimal and limited. These differences can be attributed to the overlooked, yet profound, differences in the clinical and research practices in oncology.

In this talk, Himanshu Verma presents findings from a collaboration with Oncologists about their imaginaries of “what do they want AI to be?”. In this study, they scrutinized oncologists’ current engagements with AI, and disentangling its future alignment across the clinical and research workflows. In this way, they have essentially diverged from the ostensible “one-size-fits-all” paradigm of AI development, and aimed to adjust AI’s position and impact while coalescing the dichotomy in cancer treatment and research.

Can the interaction of AI, Robotics, and People be beneficial to tooth extraction?: Learning from Robot Technology in Tooth Removal – Tom van Riet
Being one of the oldest and most commonly performed surgical procedures worldwide, the lack of scientific progress in the field of tooth removal is surprising. Analyzing different aspects of tooth removal, especially in clinical situations, requires measurements of subtle movements and high forces in a confined space, which might explain the knowledge gap in this field.

Through a collaboration between computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and oral- and maxillofacial (OMF-) surgeons, a setup was designed to measure different aspects of tooth removal procedure. With the use of robotics, data was gathered on (rotational) forces and movements in all their dimensions, directions, in high detail and at a high frequency. A classification model, which is capable of predicting tooth classes based on force and movement data, was developed to make use of the data as a whole.  In this lecture Tom van Riet will present a short overview of robot technology initiatives in dentistry and results of their work regarding tooth removal procedures.

Programme
15.45 – 16.00: Doors
16.00 – 17.00: Keynote speakers dr. Himanshu Verma (Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft) and dr. Tom van Riet (AmsterdamUMC)
17.00: Drinks!

Speakers
Tom van Riet works full-time as an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. Surgically, he is specialized in the treatment of severe growth disorders of the face.
His research interest lies in technological innovation and education. He works at the Department of Cognitive Robotics (TU Delft) as a PhD-student with Dr. Jens Kober as his co-promoter.

Himanshu Verma is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered AI at the Knowledge and Intelligence Design Group at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). His research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Social Cognition, and focuses on studying the internal mechanisms that support or inhibit collaboration, and how they can be supported by technological means. In recent years, his research has focused on investigating human-AI collaboration and how AI can meaningfully assist humans in their endeavors.

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Our Goal
This Meet Up group is set up to showcase the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem of Delft and Zuid-Holland, to inspire students and the surrounding area, and to give academia and industry a place to network.

The Meet Ups are a monthly event, where each time a new AI issue is put to the test. So keep an eye on the agenda!

For more information on AI research @ TU Delft, see here.