The successful launch of CAIMed as a centre for artificial intelligence and causal methods in medicine was one of the topics at the annual closing meeting of the CAIMed Supervisory Board and Board of Directors on 16 December. Chaired by Dr Georg Schütte and Rüdiger Eichel, the committees also discussed the strategic direction to further strengthen research and translation for personalised healthcare.
CAIMed, chaired by L3S Director Prof Wolfgang Nejdl, aims to develop and improve trustworthy AI methods and effectively transfer specific use cases into clinical practice. For example, partners from the fields of AI, medicine, infection research and law are working to create a scalable and GDPR-compliant infrastructure for predicting long/post-COVID. They are using federated learning approaches based on national cohort data.
Another medical informatics use case with clinical partners is the development of an AI-based sepsis prediction model for intensive care units. The goal is to be able to predict life-threatening blood poisoning 6 to 12 hours before the onset of the disease with a specificity and sensitivity of more than 75 per cent. More than 70 features are included in the prediction, including vital signs, laboratory values, procedures and ventilation data.
CAIMed is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) through the Volkswagen Foundation’s zukunft.niedersachsen programme. The CAIMed consortium includes the Leibniz University of Hannover, the L3S Research Centre, the Hannover Medical School, the Georg August University of Göttingen and CIDAS, as well as the Göttingen University Medical Centre, the Technical University of Braunschweig, the CiiM Centre for Individualised Infection Informatics and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.
People on the Photo (fltr): Prof. Michael Meyer-Hermann, Prof. Niels Grabe, Prof. Ramin Yahyapour, Prof. Volker Epping, Dr. Johannes Winter, Prof. Anke Holler, Rüdiger Eichel, Dr. Georg Schütte, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück, Prof. Dr. Michael P. Manns, Prof. Josef Penninger, Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl, Prof. Michael Marschollek
Foto: CAIMed
