– 21 February 2024
This workshop was the second to be conducted in IISc in the context of the call from the Ministry of Education for consortium-based proposals from higher education institutions on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Healthcare. The first workshop was held on 7 December 2023, which was also supported by KIAC.
The current workshop was primarily to discuss the objectives, implementation challenges, capabilities of the consortium partners, and arrive at a suitable design for the implementation of the proof-of-concept, which is an oral cancer screening tool. The classifications for the remote specialist as well as the histopathologist, based on the guidelines of the World Health Organisation, were discussed. The data sharing policies for Phase 1 were discussed.
Two sharpened objectives were arrived at. The first one was to assess whether the oral cancer screening tool could match the remote specialist in identifying high-risk participants. The second objective was to gather data to assess whether AI-enabled cytology could assist the histopathologist. The study designs for enabling the above assessments and the partner sites where the trials would be conducted were discussed.
It is now known that the IISc led consortium is one of the four selected for support during the proof-of-concept Phase 1. The funding will be given by the Ministry of Education.