EUCAIM - European infrastructure for cancer images for AI development Passed
Thursday May 16, 2024 09:20 - 09:35 F1
Lecturer: Katrine Riklund
Track: The European Health Data Space; a health specific ecosystem
Umeå University is, together with 79 European partners part of the Cancer Image Europe project, EUCAIM, which, with the help of AI tools and intelligent algorithms, aims to achieve more accurate and faster diagnosis and treatment of cancer by creating a European infrastructure for quality-assured , annotated image data and other associated clinical data. The project is financed with 17.8 million Euros, plus the same amount in co-funding by partners or other financing bodies, during the period 2023-2026. In Sweden, researchers from Umeå university, Region Västerbotten, Uppsala (SciLifeLab) and Linköping University as well as Karolinska Institutet participate. Vinnova secure the co-funding for the Swedish part.
The goal of EUCAIM is to create both a central and a distributed infrastructure, to be able to develop, validate and use AI for clinical questions. The federated part means that images and other data can remain in different hospitals, but everyone can access the description of all data, and this in a GDPR-safe way. To create this, we need, among other things, to build secure infrastructures for data sharing and solve several legal challenges. The central hub rely on mature technologies delivered from third parties.
AI models need a large amount of high-quality data. The EU project EUCAIM is a flagship project within Europe's beeting cancer with the aim of creating an infrastructure with a large amount of high-quality annotated image data and associated clinical data. This is needed as access to this type is fragmented and of varying quality. After the funding period, the infrastructure must remain. EUCAIM is one of the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium, EDIC, which is starting up and is expected to be a sustainable future model.
The first version of the EUCAIM platform was opened in September 2023 and the first data comes from 5 previously funded projects within Ai4HI. In the second quarter of 2024, a call for proposals will be opened to include additional parties to the consortium. Data owners, AI developers and researchers can apply with new use cases and they can be financed with up to 200 thousand Euros per project. Just as for other parties, co-financing is required with the same amount received from the EU. It is also possible to join as a stakeholder. Stakeholders within EUCAIM encompass entities like hospitals, cancer screening programs, clinical trials, imaging biobanks, societies, universities, infrastructures or any other institution with approved projects or research initiatives, as well as companies, such as pharmaceutical industry or medical imaging companies. In other words, any organization seeking collaboration by sharing valuable data and tools, or simply looking to be part of a network of contacts to initiate new projects.
In 2025, the final version of the platform will be released to achieve full operation and integration with other data infrastructures in 2026. Then the business model will also be pilot-tested. Experts in many different fields collaborate in the project. Healthcare with clinical operations and research, IT developers and service providers, biostatisticians and epidemiologists, experts in ethics, law and societal issues. Solving legal challenges, semantic and technical interoperability is central to the project as it is fundamental for the infrastructure to achieve expected functionality.
In addition to project management & coordination, work with engagement and contact between data providers, ethical & legal aspects, federated data and federated data processing and analysis, interoperability, use cases for validation and sustainability after the end of the funding period is included. Professor Luis Martí-Bonmatí, HULAFE, Valencia-Spain is the PI for the entire project,
Topic
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Seminar type
Live broadcast
Lecture type
Presentation
Objective of lecture
Inspiration
Level of knowledge
Advanced
Target audience
Management/decision makers
Politicians
Organizational development
Technicians/IT/Developers
Researchers
Healthcare professionals
Patient/user organizations
Keyword
Actual examples (good/bad)
Patient centration
Innovation/research
Test/validation
Conference
Vitalis
Lecturers
Katrine Riklund Lecturer
Professor/Överläkare, Prorektor
Umeå university
I, Katrine Riklund, MD, PhD is full professor and senior consultant in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine and pro-vice-chancellor of Umeå University. Previously I headed both the clinical department of radiology and nuclear medicine at Umeå University Hospital and was head or deputy head of the university department of radiation sciences for more than ten years.
I served as deputy dean and in various leadership roles at the medical faculty of Umeå University and was programme director of the medical school between 2011 and 2016.
My research carrier started in translational research between immunology and nuclear medicine by developing and evaluating monoclonal antibodies in the diagnosis and treatment of gynecological cancers. The continued research focus on hybrid imaging in cognition, neuro degeneration and movement disorders, as well as in prostate and colorectal cancer. To pursue all my interests, I am using SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MR extensively in oncology, also with a special focus on dopamine in cognitive decline. I have authored more than 160 scientific papers.
I have served in leadership roles both for the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the hospital and the university. In ESR I started as the Chair of the Finance Committee and then continued with other positions. I was the first Chairperson of the ESR Board of Directors and Executive Council from 2016 to 2017 and is the founding president of the European Society of Hybrid Medical Imaging, which later became the European Society for Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging – ESHIMT.
The task during my time as President for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2016, and as a member of the Congress Committee before that was to arrange a congress for almost 30 000 attendees, more than 2000 sessions and a large technical exhibition in Vienna. Radiation protection in medicine is another of my interests and between 2009 and 2015, I was an ordinary member of the C3 subcommittee of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Today I am chairing the EURAMED research committee.
I have been working a lot with specialist societies in Sweden as well and I am the Past President of the Swedish Society of Radiology and the Swedish Society of Nuclear Medicine. Over time I have hold and holds many chairs for different centers and infrastructures. I am the chairperson of the Centre for Medical Image Science and Visualisation at Linköping University, as well as the Centre for Functional Brain Imaging and the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University. I am also an ordinary board member of the national facilities SciLifeLab and the high-performance computing research infrastructure SNIC. I also have experience from grant assessment and has served as a grant evaluator for the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, the Swedish Cancer Society, the Swedish Research Council and Stockholm ALF. Today I am the president of UEMS Radiology.
I have received honorary memberships of the French Society of Radiology and RSNA in 2017 and received the Alfred Breit price from the German Radiology Society in 2019, the Gold medal from ESR in 2020, and the Tage Sjögrens price for development of Hybrid Medical Imaging in 2022.
I was project leader of the digital transformation of radiology in Västerbotten, Sweden. The expansion of medical school education from Umeå to all counties in Northern Sweden is another large project I have led in 2008 to 2016. A major development of combined on- and off-site education with web-based technology was developed during that process.
I am coordinating the Swedish part of the EU DIGITAL project EUCAIM and is the Swedish observer in the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) imaging.