It has been estimated that the whole medical knowledge doubles approximately every year and by the end of 2021 it will happen every 2 months. Nowadays the health system is one of the major data generators, which, in combination with the enhanced computing power is paving the way for a pervasive use of artificial intelligence (AI) to manage, interpret and generate new knowledge from biomedical data at an unprecedented scale. AI is opening new, yet unexplored avenues for generating biological and medical knowledge linking both, genetic variation and environment, to phenotypes by analyzing clinical and genomic Big Data together. However, most of these data are affected by data protection rules and reside within restricted access hospital environments, which has fostered the emergence of some imaginative recent proposals such as federate AI learners or the generation of highly realistic simulated patients based on deep learning networks. All these novelties brought about by AI are not exempt of limitations, including privacy and security issues, bias, and lack of interpretability, and will be discussed in this workshop along with the future directions of AI in biomedicine.

 

The workshop will be held in Baeza, at the “Sede Antonio Machado”, a XVII century building turned into a Conference Centre of the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA). This Seat includes a residence, where participants will be accommodated. Baeza is a World Historic Heritage town, renowned for its Renaissance and Gothic buildings.