Tag: AI

Dr. Ruogu Fang and Ph.D. student Skylar Stolte Win Pioneering Research HiPerGator Award
November 5, 2024Dr. Ruogu Fang, associate professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, and Ph.D. student Skylar Stolte have been awarded the UF Pioneering Research HiPerGator Award for their innovative use of AI in high-fidelity whole-head segmentation of MRIs, aiming to prevent dementia. Fang and Stolte are advancing the field of preventive dementia care using artificial […]
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Fang invited to present at The National Academies’ Workshop on Bidirectionality between AI & Neuroscience
April 8, 2024Dr. Ruogu Fang was invited to present at The National Academies’ Workshop on Bidirectionality between AI and Neuroscience. The invitation comes from The National Academies Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, organizing a hybrid workshop titled “Exploring the Bidirectional Relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.” The workshop occurred on March 25-26, 2024, in Washington, […]
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Motivating luddites toward AI-augmented healthcare
February 23, 2024Motivating luddites toward AI-augmented healthcare – Powering the New Engineer (ufl.edu) Renowned UF biomed expert Parisa Rashidi urges Congress to fast-track broader AI Since Spring 2023 — when several prominent tech thought-leaders issued a public plea for a pause to the progression of certain AI language models, fearing a Pandora’s Box — the U.S. has […]
Read more »Study reveals bias in AI tools when diagnosing women’s health issue
November 21, 2023UF News Machine learning algorithms designed to diagnose a common infection that affects women showed a diagnostic bias among ethnic groups, University of Florida researchers found. While artificial intelligence tools offer great potential for improving health care delivery, practitioners and scientists warn of their risk for perpetuating racial inequities. Published Friday in the Nature journal Digital Medicine, […]
Read more »Bridging Neuroscience and AI: Brain-Inspired AI to make machine perceive emotion like humans
September 18, 2023Dr. Ruogu Fang and collaborators have secured a significant National Science Foundation grant for their project, “NCS-FO: Brain-Inspired Goal-Oriented and Bidirectional Deep Emotion Inference.” This pioneering initiative at the intersection of neuroscience and AI will explore groundbreaking advancements in both fields by building neuroscience-informed, brain-inspired AI systems to sense emotion as the human brain does. […]
Read more »UF to use $23.5 million grant to build AI infrastructure to improve critical care
February 13, 2023By Cody Hawley The University of Florida has been awarded $3.6 million of a $23.5 million multicenter grant for a four-year data-generation project that is unprecedented in its scope, aimed at building an infrastructure for artificial intelligence in critical care and advancing artificial intelligence in ways that improve patients’ ability to recover from life-threatening illnesses. […]
Read more »High-tech hospital uses artificial intelligence in patient care
February 6, 2023Drs. Parisa Rashidi & Azra Bihorac’s research on using AI in patient care was featured on NBC Nightly News Featured on NBC Nightly News Doctors at the University of Florida Health Center are using artificial intelligence to help monitor their patients. The findings will help them develop algorithms that will soon provide real-time health care […]
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