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Which cancer patients truly benefit from immunotherapy? Doctors can use the AI tool EIDOS from healthcare innovation startup Ellogon.ai to find out. Director Robert Kuipers: "If we don't continuously apply technology in healthcare, our system will break down."

AI can analyze medical data quickly and accurately, potentially improving diagnoses and treatment plans. However, bias remains a persistent problem, making medical AI solutions not yet effective for every population. Researchers from the UvA Informatics Institute are unfolding the bias issue and suggesting improvements.

We are fresh off AI020, our team is still buzzing!

€652 million was allocated to leading researchers across Europe through the EU's Horizon Europe program, aiming to facilitate scientific breakthroughs. Notably, the Netherlands secured a total of 23 grants, with Amsterdam universities and research centres claiming around half.

ROM InWest's €1.5M investment in Amsterdam's Kepler Vision Technologies will facilitate the launch of 'Kepler Night Nurse,' which uses AI-driven technology to improve care quality, particularly for the elderly.

Last week, researcher Sara Pires de Oliveira received funding from the Dutch Research Council NWO (Dutch Research Council) to explore this concept. 

In her essay, Nanda Piersma from CREATE-IT APPLIED RESEARCH at HvA discusses the complexity of artificial intelligence and how its deployment by people is key to responsible usage.

In the ERC project RE-LINK, Fernando P. Santos and his team examine the social effects of link recommendation algorithms on social media.