Workshop
“AI in Biology and Medicine”
14-15
February 2023
Jerusalem
College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel
The international workshop "Artificial
Intelligence in Biology and Medicine" was held at the Jerusalem College of
Technology (Lev Campus) on Feb. 14-15, 2023. The workshop was a two-day event
precipitated as a result of a collaborative project between the Jerusalem
College of Technology (JCT) and the Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear
Safety (IRSN), Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, in the framework of Israel-France
"Maïmonide-Israel" research program.
The project focused on the use of AI for analyzing
low-dose radiation effects on intestinal tumorigenesis in mice. We decided
however to open this event to a broader research community since AI has been
steadily finding its use in various studies in radiation biology and medicine.
We thus invited participants and speakers to present and discuss their
innovative work applying AI, in its very broad terms, in biological and medical
research. Twenty researchers and R&D from Israel, France and Germany
presented their results. Fifteen JCT students also presented their results as
posters.
The workshop concluded with a social guided tour in Jerusalem, followed
by a dinner.
We would like to thank all the participants and
everybody who supported us. It is our hope that such workshops will be held on
a regular basis from now on.
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Dmitry
Klokov, IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France |
dmitry.klokov@irsn.fr |
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Yehoshua
Socol, JCT, Jerusalem, Israel |
socol@jct.ac.il |
|
Ariella
Richardson, Local Organizing Committee |
richards@jct.ac.il |
Program
Tue Feb 14
8:30 Welcome reception &
registration
9:00-9:20 Greetings
Chaim Sukenik - President, JCT
Avi Domb - Chief Scientist, Israeli MOST
Camille Padet - Scientific Officer,
Embassy of France.
9:20-11:10 Session
A – AI in Biology
D. Klokov (20 min) Maimonide project
overview
O. Armant (30 min) Long term evolutionary impact
of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on tree frog populations: perspectives for
machine learning methods
M. Benajaoud (30 min) Statistical association
between variables not jointly observed: a Bayesian latent modeling approach
with applications in radiation biology
J. Reindl
(30 min) CeCILE – intelligent detection, tracking and cell cycle
evaluation of eukaryotic cells on phase-contrast live-cell videos
11:10-11:25 Coffee
break
11:25-13:20 Session B – AI in Medicine
I. Pechersky (20 min)
Foundation models in biomedical research
N. Rappoport (20 min) What
can we tell from routine laboratory test results?
C. Nadler (20
min) Artificial Intelligence used in oral and maxillofacial imaging
T. Yeshua (20
min) Using diverse image processing and machine learning tools for automatic
diagnosis of medical and biological images
G. Fialkoff (20 min) Deconvolution of cell-free
nucleosomes and inferring tissue-of-origin and transcription programs in
autoimmune hepatitis plasma
Posters – short presentation (15 min)
13:20-14:20 Lunch
break
14:20-15:00 Poster
session
15:00-17:20 Session C – AI in Medicine
M. Yanovskiy (20 min) Ethics of AI in medical decision making
C. Sagiv (20
min) Why AI should ultimately be the playground for medical doctors and how it
works for Computational Pathology
B. Milgrom (20 min) Autoencoders in depth sensing
for vision enhancement
Y. HaCohen-Kerner (20 min) Detection of anorexic
girls in blog posts written in Hebrew using a combined heuristic AI and NLP methods
A. Rosenfeld (20 min) Quantifying AI for better
prediction of cancer
O. Ashush (20 min) Feature harmony classification
for the detection of handwriting disorders
17:20-17:35 Coffee break
17:35-18:30 Panel
discussion
18:30 Evening Reception
Wed Feb 15
9:00-10:45 Session
D – Maimonide project
G. Vares
I. Garali
S. Grison
A. Richardson
Y. Socol
D. Klokov
10:45-11:00 Coffee
break
11:00-12:30 Session
E – Summary and Outlook
12:30-13:30 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Guided walking tour:
City of David, Davidson Archeological Park,
Old City, modern Jerusalem
18:00 Dinner