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Stream 3, Session 2: Transparency and bias  

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11:45

Welcome address 
Professor Alastair Denniston - Professor of Regulatory Science and Innovation, University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

11:50

STANDING together 
Dr Xiaouxuan Liu - Clinician Scientist in AI and Digital Health Technologies, Ophthalmology, University of Birmingham, UK

12:10

AI for children's imaging 
Professor Susan Shelmerdine - RCR Sustainability Lead and Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK

12:30

Creating and using synthetic medical data using generative artificial intelligence
Dr Anmol Arora - Academic Clinical Fellow, University College London, UK

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded as one of the leading digital innovations to affect the healthcare industry in the 21st century. Much of this attention has focussed on deductive machine learning systems. Generative AI, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), has only recently gained significant academic, commercial and investor attention. In healthcare, artificially generated patient data has the potential to revolutionise clinical research and protect patient privacy. Using novel techniques, it is increasingly possible to anonymise and augment datasets. This can be used to expand and balance datasets as well as to replace the use of real patient data in certain contexts. This presentation focusses upon the key uses of synthetic medical data: clinical research, data privacy, clinical trials and medical education. It emphasises ethical, legal and practical concerns that require consideration in order for synthetic data to be implemented safely, to the benefit of industry and the population.

12:50

Panel discussion chaired by Professor Alastair Denniston, featuring: Dr Xiaouxuan Liu, Professor Susan Shelmerdine and Dr Anmol Arora.

13:10

Closing remarks
Professor Alastair Denniston - Professor of Regulatory Science and Innovation, University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

13:15

Session ends

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Professor Susan Shelmerdine

RCR Sustainability Lead and Consultant Paediatric Radiologist
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK
Professor Susan Shelmerdine
  • Professor Susan Shelmerdine

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    Professor Susan Shelmerdine is a consultant paediatric radiologist based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and a post-doctoral academic funded by the NIHR for her research work on artificial intelligence for children’s imaging. She is currently the lead for education subcommittee of the RCR AI committee, taskforce chair for AI at the European Society of Paediatric Radiology and also research lead for the South West London AI Group.

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Dr Anmol Arora

Academic Foundation Doctor
Cambridge University, UK
Dr Anmol Arora
  • Dr Anmol Arora

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    Anmol Arora is an Academic Clinical Fellow at University College London and Honorary Researcher at the University of Cambridge. His research revolves around the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, with a specific focus on the use of synthetic data as a privacy preserving technology.

    He holds honorary research affiliations with NHS England and Improvement and Moorfields Eye Hospital. As an Honorary Analyst within the central NHS Data and Analytics team, Anmol led novel machine learning analysis of national mental health data working with senior NHS management.

    He is Co-Chair of the Health Data Research UK Impact Committee and has advised synthetic data legislation in the United States.

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Dr Xiaouxuan Liu

Clinician Scientist in AI and Digital Health Technologies
Ophthalmology, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Xiaouxuan Liu
  • Dr Xiaouxuan Liu

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    Dr Xiaoxuan (Xiao, pronounced "Shau") Liu is an Associate Professor in AI and Digital Health Technologies and an Honorary Clinician Scientist at the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. She is the AI theme lead for the Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation.

    Dr Liu was appointed a 125th Anniversary Fellow at the University of Birmingham in August 2024 following her significant number of contributions to reports on AI and health policy. Before this, she was an ophthalmology doctor in the NHS and a Health Scientist at Apple.

    Dr Liu and Professor Alastair Denniston co-lead the AI & Digital Health Group, a research and policy group focused on responsible innovation of AI health technologies. The group’s work seeks to ensure AI technologies are safe, effective and equitable, and benefits patients and society. The group’s work includes:

     - Improving scientific standards - developing internationally adopted reporting guidelines for clinical trials of AI health technologies: SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI; and contributing to other AI reporting standards including TRIPOD+AI, STARD-AI, and DECIDE-AI.

    - Improving evidence - building evidence standards for digital health technologies for NICE (DHT-ESF), in collaboration with Imperial College London and the Alan Turing Institute.

    - Improving safety - developing tools for assessing safety of AI-enabled medical devices: the medical algorithmic audit, and through working directly with medical device regulators such as the MHRA.

    - Improving diversity and representation within the data used in AI - tackling bias in health datasets to mitigate AI-driven health inequalities through STANDING Together.

    The group works in collaboration with academic, industry and policy institutions around the world, bringing diverse and interdisciplinary teams together to build best practices that can be translated internationally.

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Professor Alastair Denniston

Professor of Regulatory Science and Innovation
University of Birmingham, UK
Professor Alastair Denniston

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