The "IV Meeting AI & Human Development. The Economics of AI: the challenges of the AI Act", organized by the Microsoft-Universitat de Valencia Chair of Privacy and Digital Transformation, in collaboration with the Minsait Legaltech & Artificial Intelligence Chair, hosted the talk "AI in Health", related to the European Federation of Cancer Imaging (EUCAIM) project, among other talks; and was attended by IRTIC researchers Ricard Martínez, who was co-director of the event, and Alma Virto, who served as scientific secretary of the event. The congress took place on January 25 and 26 and the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, participated in its closing together with Maria Vicenta Mestre Escrivá, Rector Magnificent of the University of Valencia.

EUCAIM is a pioneering initiative that aims to leverage imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) towards precision medicine for cancer patients and European citizens that brings together 76 partners from 14 EU member states, among which the University of Valencia provides legal support, especially in privacy, data protection and cybersecurity.

The talk "AI in Health" counted with the participation of Julián Isla, founder of Fundación 29 and member of the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA); Juan González-García, from Healthy Cloud, PhD in Data Science and Biocomputing, from the Biocomputing unit of the Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS); and Leonor Cerdá Alberich, researcher in the EUCAIM project. The moderator was Ricard Martínez, professor of Constitutional Law and director of the Microsoft-Universitat de València Chair of Privacy and Digital Transformation and member of IRTIC, as well as co-organizer of the event along with professor Rafael Marimón.

The EUCAIM project will address the fragmentation of existing cancer image repositories and establish a distributed Cancer Image Atlas with over 60 million anonymized cancer image data from over 100,000 patients, accessible to clinicians, researchers and innovators across the EU for the development and benchmarking of reliable AI tools.

The infrastructure will be further complemented by observational studies from hospitals (21 clinical centers in 12 EU countries), will include clinical imaging and will be linked to pathological, molecular and laboratory data, and will be expanded to at least 30 data providers distributed from 15 countries by the end of the 4-year project. Federated AI solutions will be trained on hospital data warehouses, maintaining data privacy.

Likewise, the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, stated at the closure of the event that artificial intelligence is "a powerful tool to help us solve the great social, economic and environmental challenges of our time".

In this sense, the minister added, "we will make it possible for AI to contribute to the great progress of our civilization only if we exercise real political leadership over uncontrolled technological transformations that put private benefits before those of society." "We want an AI that helps us make better decisions, because that will allow us to improve people's lives," Morant pointed out.

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.