AI experts from Imperial and France reveal exciting applications for healthcare

The world's top AI and machine learning experts from fields such as big data, healthcare and neurotechnology showcased their research yesterday. Researchers from Imperial College London, DATAIA and Inria presented their scientific views on emerging techniques and applications of AI and machine learning as part of a programme held in partnership with the Embassy of France to the UK to develop Franco-British collaboration. The seminar was organised following French mathematician and politician Professor Cédric Villani 's visit to Imperial earlier this year to launch a joint mathematics laboratory with France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Imperial's Professor Daniel Rueckert, Head of the Department of Computing, said that 'artificial intelligence and machine learning is transforming how we do science and business.' He spoke about how AI and machine learning are being used in healthcare, such as in imaging. Professor Rueckert said that machine learning can be a useful tool for radiologists and may help the get better quality images, faster. But he warned that we are still quite far away from AI being able to diagnose a patient to the same standard as a clinician. Professor Michael Bronstein, who started at Imperial Department of Computing that morning, gave a talk on geometric deep learning - which is using existing techniques for graph based data representation.