Maurice Bloch Seminar: Professor Paul Mork and Professor Kerstin Bach

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, IHW

We are pleased to invite you to:
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series 2017/18
Title: 1. Developing Artificial Intelligence Applications for the Primary Care Domain
Title: 2. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (The HUNT Study): Possibilities for research and collaboration
Presenter: Professor Paul Mork and Associate Professor Kerstin Bach
Date: Thursday 1 November 2018
Time: 1pm-2.30pm, a light lunch will be served beforehand at 12.30pm
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building, University Ave
Chair: Prof F Mair
Professor Paul Jarle Mork and Associate Professor Kerstin Bach - from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, are leads of the EU funded ‘selfBACK’ consortium of which GPPC (Dr Barbara Nicholl and Prof. Frances Mair) is a partner – the study relates to the self-management of low back pain using a smartphone app.  They have kindly agreed to present some of their work on Norwegian epidemiology data and artificial intelligence in digital health while they are here. 
 
Abstract: 
 
1. Over the last years Artificial Intelligence (AI) has received a wide attention from the medical field as applications have shown to excel in certain tasks where repetitive and data intensive tasks need to be solved. However, the development of sustainable applications remains challenging and is highly depending on the interdisciplinary collaboration during the development as well as the understandability and explainability to increase trust in the application from stakeholders. Unlike in specialised care, personalised medicine in primary care is less explored and todays possibilities with more detailed data provided by patients and/or the healthcare system will influence how decisions are made. In this talk we will present recent trends from AI research as well as two applications that are currently under development that show how AI can be used to enhance patient care and services in primary care. Specifically, we will present how Case-Based Reasoning is used as decision support for patients and clinicians treating musculoskeletal disorders such as low back pain.
 
2. The HUNT Study is among the largest population-based health studies worldwide. It is a unique database of personal and family medical histories collected over three intensive surveys (HUNT1 in 1984-1986, HUNT2 in 1995-1997, and HUNT3 in 2006-2008). More than 126,000 individuals (13 years and above) have participated in one or several of the foregoing HUNT surveys. The fourth HUNT survey (HUNT4) started in September 2017 and will be finished in February 2018. Data collection in the HUNT Study has been done with questionnaires, interviews, measurements (blood pressure, body composition etc.), blood- and urine samples, and clinical examinations. HUNT Databank includes a large amount of health information for each participant, which makes the HUNT Study suitable for a broad range of research topics. For some participants the amount of data points (variables) is more than 1000. In HUNT4, the HUNT protocol has been extended to include 1-week objective measurement of physical activity. We expect to collect data from about 40,000 adults (≥20 years) and 10,000 adolescents (13-19 years). This presentation will focus on the possibilities for using and getting access to the HUNT data and discuss some of the future perspectives for research based on the HUNT data.
 
Biography
 
Kerstin Bach Kerstin Bach is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is the project manager of the selfBACK project and her core competence field is Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. She is currently deputy head of the Data and Artificial Intelligence group and associated with the Norwegian Open AI Lab. She was awarded her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Her main research interest are data-driven decision support systems as well as knowledge-intensive Case-Based Reasoning. The main focus of her work are methods for applied artificial intelligence. While the application domains differ, we are investigating how to make knowledge and experience available through intelligent systems. Moreover, how to build systems that support complex, knowledge-intensive decisions using heterogenous data sources.
 
Paul Mork Paul Jarle Mork is a Professor at the Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He is project coordinator for the EU funded project selfBACK. He is member of the HUNT4 project group and responsible for all clinical measurements. He is also leading the project on objective measurements of physical activity in HUNT4. Main research interests include 1) epidemiological studies on prevention and risk factors of non-communicable diseases (musculoskeletal disorders and the role of lifestyle factors), and 2) development and implementation of mHealth solutions to improve self-management of musculoskeletal disorders and facilitate follow-up of patients in primary care.

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