On 17-18 November, the H2020-funded AI-Mind project held its General Assembly Meeting as a hybrid event (online and in Madrid, Spain). The project kicked off in March 2021 and aims to facilitate a paradigm shift in clinical practice. AI-Mind will create intelligent digital tools for screening of brain connectivity and dementia risk estimation in people affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
The meeting was hosted by two project partners, the Complutense University Of Madrid (UCM) and Lurtis Rules S.L. (Lurtis). Prof. Fernando Maetsú (UCM), Cristobal Belda (Instituto de Salud Carlos III) and Luis Peña (Lurtis) kicked off the meeting by welcoming more than 60 members from the AI-Mind consortium counting 15 partners. The in-person meeting was an excellent opportunity to bring consortium members to discuss AI-Mind progress, attend scientific lectures and share knowledge also through interactive exercises. The welcome introduction was followed by a “state of the play” from the project coordinator, Ira Haraldsen (Oslo University Hospital, OUS), whose talk focused on the AI-Mind progress.
Over two days, several sessions dedicated to the different work packages were held to discuss progress, ongoing activities, challenges and next steps to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for dementia prediction. The agenda also offered three guest lectures:
• Electrophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease, Prof. Cornelis Stam (Amsterdam UCM)
• Electrophysiology of other types of dementia (non-AD), James Rowe (University of Cambridge)
• How AI and neuroscience drive each other forward, Prof. Ole Petter Ottersen (Karolinska Institute)
AE Project Officers Cindy Birck and Ana Diaz attended the meeting on behalf of Alzheimer Europe. Cindy Birck and Jeanette Muller (accelopment) held an exciting session on the dementia research landscape. During this session, Cindy Birck presented the mapping exercice undertook by AE in 2020 on the dementia European research projects. Ana Diaz presented the AI-Mind Deliverable D1.5 led by AE, including the rapid review, the Public Involvement work/stakeholder consultation with people with MCI, dementia and carers and with clinicians.
The full summary of the 5th AI-Mind General Assembly is available on the project website: https://www.ai-mind.eu/blog/highlights-from-the-5th-ai-mind-general-assembly-meeting/
