“Using Federated Learning and AI to Treat Rare Disease and Cancers”
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Date:
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Wednesday, November 20th, 2024,
Location: Online (Zoom)
Speaker
Mr. Jacob Mevorach
Senior Application Modernization Specialist; Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jacob Mevorach is a senior specialist in application modernization for healthcare and the life sciences at AWS. Jacob has a background in robotics, bioinformatics and machine learning. Prior to joining AWS, Jacob focused on enabling and conducting large scale analysis for genomics and other scientific areas.
Abstract
While artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential to positively impact patient outcomes generally this approach remains constrained by limitations in regard to cost and patient privacy. In this talk the author will discuss how federated learning techniques were applied to ameliorate all of these concerns as part of a manuscript entitled “An international study presenting a federated learning AI platform for pediatric brain tumors” which was recently published in Nature Communications. The manuscript has also been featured in Nature Communications’ “Cancer Collection”. According to the journal “the Editors’ Highlights pages aim to showcase the 50 best papers recently published in an area, and we routinely replace papers as more great research is published at Nature Communications.” The author will explore how this approach is promising not just for oncology but all areas of medicine and some areas that will be explored in the near future.