The European project INCISIVE dedicated to enhancing cancer diagnosis and prediction through artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Cancer Imaging Data, is hosting the open hybrid clustering event “AI and Cancer: Unleashing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges” co-organised with the EUCAIM project, on November 7th, 2023 in THE CUBE Innovation Hub in Madrid and virtually. Director of the Chair of Privacy and Digital Transformation and member of IRTIC Ricard Martínez will participate in the session about the ethical and legal considerations of data sharing, cybersecurity, and privacy protection in relation to the CHAIMELEON project.

Τhis gathering will provide a unique opportunity to engage with distinguished clinical experts, legal and AI experts, pioneering companies, patient associations, and esteemed representatives from diverse institutions. The event is bringing together leading partners from the AI for Health Imaging cluster (AI4HI): INCISIVE, CHAIMELEON, EuCanImage, ProCancer-I, PRIMAGE and EUCAIM.

It is a great occasion to connect with a global audience and collaborate with other experts. It is possible either join the event in-person in Madrid, in the THE CUBE Innovation Hub premises, or virtually from anywhere in the world. Register here: https://incisive-project.eu/event-madrid/ai-and-cancer-unleashing-opportunities-overcoming-challenges/

The European Federation for Cancer Images (EUCAIM) is a ground-breaking project aiming to power up imaging and AI towards precision medicine for Europe’s cancer patients and citizens that brings together 76 partners from 14 EU member states, among which University of Valencia provides support regarding Data Privacy. The project will address the fragmentation of existing cancer image repositories and establish a distributed Atlas of Cancer Imaging with over 60 million anonymised cancer image data from over 100,000 patients, accessible to clinicians, researchers and innovators across the EU for the development and benchmarking of trustworthy AI tools.

Regarging CHAIMELEON, it is a project that will establish an European Union-wide structured digital information repository of health imaging data. The repository will be used, among other things, as a controlled open source for experimentation with artificial intelligence in cancer research. The University of Valencia has carried out activities such as the first formal verification of the health image repository centralized in the cloud in which the initiative consists, so it has listed the potential impacts and threats that can occur, the possible origins of a misuse of the data and measures to be taken.

The agenda will be as follows:

09:30h - 10:00h. Registration of attendees

10:00h - 10:30h. Welcome and Keynote Speech

• Mrs. Gianna Tsakou, Project Manager at Maggioli Group, Coordinator of INCISIVE project and moderator
• Mrs. Aleksandra Wesolowska, European Commission, Programme Officer – EU Policies, CNECT.H3 – eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing
• Mr. Thanos Kosmidis, Co-founder & CEO at Care Across, Member of INCISIVE Advisory Board, Keynote Speaker

11:10h - 11:50h. The process, benefits and challenges of data sharing (ethical and legal considerations, cybersecurity, and privacy protection)

• Mr. Ricard Martínez, Director of the Chair in Privacy and Digital Transformation at the University of Valencia, CHAIMELEON project
• Mrs. Magdalena Kogut-Czarkowska, Privacy and IPTech lawyer at Timelex, INCISIVE project
• Mrs. Susanna Aussó, Head of AI at TIC Salut Social Foundation and representative of the Catalonian AI Programme, INCISIVE project
• Mr. Antonio Orduña, Applications and systems engineer at La Fe Polytechnic University Hospital
• Mrs. Ana Belén Callado, Communication Manager at TIC Salut Social Foundation, INCISIVE communication leader, moderator.

11:50h - 12:20h. Coffee break

12:20h - 13:00h. Developed services and emerging technologies and tools for cancer medical imaging data analysis and visualization

• Mr. Alberto Gutiérrez, Postdoctoral researcher on Computer Sciences at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. INCISIVE project
• Mrs. Ana Jiménez, Vice President of AI at Quibim, PRIMAGE and CHAIMELEON projects
• Mrs. Leonor Cerdá Alberich, Physicist at La Fe Health Research Institute. EUCAIM project
• Dr. Vicente Martínez de Vega Fernández, Head of the Imaging Diagnosis Department at Quirónsalud University Hospital Madrid; Ruber Juan Bravo Hospital and Quirónsalud San José
• Dr. Felipe Couñago, Radiation Oncologist, Clinical Director of GenesisCare Madrid

13:00h - 13:40h. Success stories of cancer medical imaging in advancing cancer research and patient care

• Dr. Vladan Zdravković, Project manager at Visaris, INCISIVE project
• Mr. Javier Sánchez, Clinical Science Lead South Europe at Philips
• Mr. Mario Aznar, CEO of Matical Innovation, PRIMAGE and CHAIMELEON projects
• Mr. Pau López, Head of the Informations Systems Technical Office of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS)
• Mr. Javier Miguel Aquerreta, Biomedical Engineer at La Fe Health Research Institute
• Mrs. Susanna Aussó, Head of AI at TIC Salut Social Foundation and representative of the Catalonian AI Programme, INCISIVE project, moderator.

13:40h - 14:15h. Q&A and closing session

14:15h - 15:00h. Networking lunch at THE CUBE premises

EUCAIM is co-funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement umber 1011100633. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

EUCAIM is an Action supported by the Generalitat Valenciana through the Conselleria of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism.