IRSN, Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire

 

 

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. About 25 researchers and R&D from Israel, France and Germany presented their results. 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.

 

Dmitry Klokov, IRSN, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France      dmitry.klokov@irsn.fr  

Yehoshua Socol, JCT, Jerusalem, Israel                       socol@jct.ac.il

Ariella Richardson, Local Organizing Committee      richards@jct.ac.il

 

 

Conference flyer

 

Abstracts

 

Posters


 

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