Digital Health Seminar Series: Alfredo Vellido

Alfredo Vellido (Technical University of Catalonia)

Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the health sector

Medicine and healthcare used to be somewhat carefree domains for the use and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), first in the form of expert systems, then in the form of machine learning.
Not any longer. The societal impact of such applications has come to the fore. These days, ethics, privacy, governance and legislation must all be taken into account if we aim to go beyond basic research and become relevant at the point of care. I will argue that we must shift our point of view from AI-centric to data-centric, as the true foundation of both medicine and healthcare as Data Science domains.

Speaker bio:

Alfredo Vellido is currently a full professor at the Computer Science Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain, and part of the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDEAI-UPC) Research Center.
Founder and board member of the Spanish Society of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine (IABiomed).
He is also member of the IEEE-CIS Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee, in which he chairs the Explainable Machine Learning (EXML) Task Force and is a member of the Task Force on Medical Data Analysis.
He has worked on medical applications of Machine Learning for three decades.

Please note: this seminar will be recorded and shared on YouTube.