The role of artificial intelligence in medicine and neuroscience

2024-03-18

The role of artificial intelligence in medicine and neuroscience
The search for reliable and efficient algorithms to facilitate the work of doctors, the search for new biological markers for specific diseases, the support of diagnosis and better methods for quantifying the therapeutic process are among the greatest challenges of modern societies, which are being addressed at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

As part of the infrastructure work related to the ECBiG-MOSAIC project, which is coming to an end, the PSNC has the opportunity to cooperate with two key units in terms of medical research centres in Poland, i.e. the National Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw (NIKard) and the National Institute of Oncology – Branch in Gliwice. The role of the medical centres in the MOSAIC project is to provide large amounts of high quality medical data with enormous research potential. This data will then be standardised by specialists at Poznan University of Technology, and artificial intelligence models will be developed by teams at PSNC on such prepared datasets to serve researchers from Poland and around the world in the future within the MOSAIC infrastructure.

PSNC receives terabytes of anonymised data from CT scans, echocardiography and clinical parameters of patients from NIKard, while the Institute of Oncology has unique datasets of MRI and CT scans of cancer patients. For both cardiology and neurology, PSNC specialists use a similar set of artificial intelligence tools. This provides expertise in a wide range of medical applications as well as neuroscience.

The AI methods used by the PSNC include artificial neural networks, which enable segmentation of radiological images, classification of individual subtypes and degrees of disease, and differentiation of healthy from pathological tissue. All this makes it possible to participate in fascinating projects that can have a real impact on human health and life.