AI & Health Winter School
11th – 15th March 2024
Location: VU Amsterdam
The Winter School has finished. Thanks to all speakers and participants for a wonderful and educational week!

Learning objectives
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Understand the potential uses of AI in improving health and medical care
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Understand the technical basics of commonly used AI methods in health and medical research
- Understand end-user perspectives and the need for human-aware solutions that go beyond the purely technical questions
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Understand the challenges around trustworthy and explainable AI, and implementation and acceptance in clinical practice
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Have met and collaborated with like-minded researchers
In collaboration with:
SIKS Research School
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Stress in Action Research Programme
Practical details
- Dates: Monday 11th until Friday 15th March 2024
- Location: VU Campus, Amsterdam. Nearest train station: Amsterdam Zuid. Most lectures will take place in the O|2 building
- Cost: €300
- Credit: This course is worth 2 ECTS
- Target group: PhD students in AI, data science, any medical discipline, (clinical) psychology or related areas. Post-docs and very advanced MSc students are welcome too.
You will need to arrange your own reimbursement through your institution, if available.
*For members of the SIKS Research School: SIKS has kindly offered to cover the fee for its members (the number of available places is limited, so make sure to sign up soon!)
Registration
Registration has closed.
Lecturers

Martijn Schut
Professor in Translational AI in Laboratory Medicine

Annette ten Teije
Professor in AI in Medicine

Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi
Associate Professor in Information Systems Management

Brenda Penninx
Professor in Psychiatric Epidemiology

Heleen Riper
Professor in e-Mental Health & Clinical Psychology

Prabath Nanayakkara
Professor in Internal Medicine

Ilaria Tiddi
Assistant Professor in Hybrid Intelligence

Matthan Caan
Assistant Professor in AI in Medical Imaging

Vincent Francois-Lavet
Assistant Professor in Machine Learning

Emma Beauxis-Aussalet
Assistant Professor in Ethical Computing

Marike van der Leeden
Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine

Sjors in 't Veld
Research Associate in Neurochemistry and Translational AI

Kakkhee Yeung
Vascular Surgeon

Willem Grootjans
Assistant Professor in Radiology

George Aalbers
Research Associate in AI for Mental Health

Willem Jespers
Assistant Professor in AI & Structure Based Drug Discovery

Sjors van de Ven
PhD researcher in Methodology of Physiological Monitoring
Organisers

Yvonne Blokland
Coordinator of the VU Campus Center for AI & Health

Mark Hoogendoorn
Professor in Quantitative Data Analytics
Programme in a nutshell
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Introductions and networking
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State of the art in medical AI
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Interactive panel session with medical experts
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Group work
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Data-driven and knowledge-driven reasoning
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Translational AI in Laboratory Medicine
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Foundation Models
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Reinforcement Learning
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Group work
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Responsible and explainable AI
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Mental Health – Stress in Action project
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Natural Language Processing and Covid rehabilitation
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Excursion and group dinner
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End-user adoption of AI in clinical practice with examples from Radiology
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Knowledge representation & Hybrid AI
- AI in medical imaging
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Group work
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AI for drug development
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Group work
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Group presentations
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Final reflections and discussion
Addresses
All lectures will take place in the Auditorium, on the ground floor of the O|2 Lab building. Address: De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam
Museum visit (Wednesday afternoon):
Bodyworlds. Address: Damrak 66, 1012 LM Amsterdam
Restaurant (Wednesday evening):
THT. Address: IJpromenade 2, 1031 KT Amsterdam
