Artificial Intelligence for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Workshop on July 22, 2022

More than 50 million people worldwide live with different neurodegenerative diseases (NDD), including Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Early detection of dementia would help older adults at the early stages of the disease seek out different intervention programs and clinical interventions to maintain their quality of life at the normal level and slow down disease progression.

The global effects of the diseases requires international and multidisciplinary collaborations between neurologists and psychiatrists and AI developers that result in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven solutions to measure, diagnose, and treat the neurodegenerative diseases. To foster such research collaborations, we will hold the AI4AD Workshop, which will be hosted by WCCI 2022.  

If you have questions or comments, please contact us at: WCCI2022-AI4AD@crim.ca

program

6:30 - 6:40 -

Workshop Opening Session (Virtual)

6:40 - 7:20 -

Using Sensors for Dementia Monitoring and Early Diagnosis by Dr. Kompatsiaris

7:25 - 8:15 -

Early Warning Sounds of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Let's not Forget about the Potential of AI by Dr. Schuller

8:20 - 8:55 -

DementiaBank and TalkBank by Dr. MacWhinney

9:05 - 9:30 -

Handwriting Analysis against Neuromuscular Disease: The HAND PROJECT by Dr. Pirlo

9:30 - 10:00 -

Inferring mental health from brain images with machine learning by Dr. Varoquaux

10:00 - 10:30 -

Dementia Early Detection using Electronic Health Records and MRIs by Dr. Razavian

11:00 - 11:25 -

Multimodal Sensors for Dementia Care by Dr. Khan

11:25 - 11:50 -

Alzheimer Disease & Driving - Leveraging Mobile Technology and AI to Expand Diagnostic Toolkits by Dr. Bayat

12:25 - 13:25 -

Panel Discussion

13:25 - 13:30 -

Wokshop Closing Session

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Workshop Organizers

Mah-Parsa

Mah Parsa

Ph.D., Postdoctoral researcher in speech and language processing at CRIM

Mah Parsa is a postdoctoral researcher at CRIM focusing on developing and deploying machine learning based speech and language assessment methods for neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Alzheimer's disease) and psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia).

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Gilles Boulianne

Ph.D., Senior researcher in automatic speech processing at CRIM

Since joining CRIM in 1998, Gilles Boulianne has been conducting research in audio signal processing, speech and speaker recognition, and doing applied work in indexing, post-synchronization and captioning of multimedia documents. He is particularly interested in the intersection of Bayesian probabilistic and deep learning approaches, and in unsupervised and supervised learning methods.

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VINCENZO DENTAMARO

Vincenzo Dentamaro

Ph.D., student at University of Bari Aldo Moro with scholarship by InnovaPuglia S.p.A.

Vincenzo Dentamaro has published about neurodegenerative disease assessment on various pattern recognition journals and conferences, and reviewed IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, IEEE Access, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal, MDPI Sensor, MDPI Information and many more. He has worked for Johnson Controls, IBM Rome and Nextome S.R.L.

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Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris is the Director of CERTH-ITI and the Head of Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory.

His research interests include ΑΙ/ML for Multimedia, Multimodal and Sensors Data Analysis, Semantics (multimedia ontologies and reasoning), Social Media and Big Data Analytics, Human Computer Interfaces, e- Health, Cultural, Media/Journalism and Security applications.

He is the co-author of 178 papers in refereed journals, 63 book chapters, 8 patents and 560 papers in international conferences. Since 2001, Dr. Kompatsiaris has participated in 88 National and European research programs, in 31 of which he has been the Project Coordinator. He has also been the PI in 15 contracts from the industry. 

He has been the co-chair of various international conferences and workshops including the 13th IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP 2018) Workshop and has served as a regular reviewer, associate and guest editor for a number of journals and conferences currently being an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is a member of the National Ethics and Technoethics Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board of the CHIST-ERA funding programme and an elected member of the IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing – Technical Committee (IVMSP – TC). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.  

Since January 2014, he is a co-founder of the Infalia private company, a high-tech SME focusing on data intensive web services and applications.

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Brian MacWhinney

Teresa Heinz Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University

His Unified Competition Model analyzes first and second language learning as aspects of a single basic system. He has developed a series of 13 TalkBank open access online databases for the study of language learning, multilingualism, and language disorders. The databases for language disorders include AphasiaBank, ASDBank, DementiaBank, FluencyBank, RHDBank, and TBIBank. These databases provide transcriptions of spoken language linked to audio and video media, along with programs for analysis and linguistic profiling. His other research topics include methods for online learning of second language vocabulary and grammar, neural network modeling of lexical development, fMRI studies of children with focal brain lesions, ERP studies of between-language competition, and the role of embodied perspectival imagery in sentence processing.

Brian MacWhinney,Teresa Heinz Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a model of first and second language acquisition, processing, and disorders called the Competition Model.  He is also the creator of the TalkBank system for spoken language data-sharing (https://talkbank.org). Recent edited books include The Handbook of Language Emergence (Wiley) and Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage (Oxford).

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Björn W. Schuller

Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing.

Dr. Schuller received his diploma, doctoral degree, habilitation, and Adjunct Teaching Professor in Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing all in EE/IT from TUM in Munich/Germany.

He is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Head of GLAM at Imperial College London/UK, Full Professor and Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg/Germany, co-founding CEO and current CSO of audEERING – an Audio Intelligence company based near Munich and in Berlin/Germany, independent research leader within the Alan Turing Institute and Royal Statistical Society Lab’s Data, Analytics and Surveillance Group, as part of the UK Health Security Agency, Guest Professor at Southeast University in Nanjing/China and permanent Visiting Professor at HIT/China amongst other Professorships and Affiliations. Previous stays include Full Professor at the University of Passau/Germany, Key Researcher at Joanneum Research in Graz/Austria, and the CNRS-LIMSI in Orsay/France.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Golden Core Awardee of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of the BCS, Fellow of the ISCA, Fellow and President-Emeritus of the AAAC, and Senior Member of the ACM. He (co-)authored 1,000+ publications (40k+ citations, h-index=96), is Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Digital Health and was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing amongst manifold further commitments and service to the community.

His 30+ awards include having been honored as one of 40 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 by the WEF in 2015. He served as Coordinator/PI in 15+ European Projects, is an ERC Starting and DFG Reinhart-Koselleck Grantee, and consultant of companies such as Barclays, GN, Huawei, Informetis, or Samsung.

Giuseppe Pirlo

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Associate Professor of Information Processing Systems, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Professor Pirlo  is a former vice Rector of the University of Bari Aldo Moro and is currently the Rector’s Delegate for Third Mission and Territorial Relations. He is the national coordinator of the “Digital Transition – Industry 4.0” scope of the National Research Program (NRP) 2021-2027, the proxy for University Sustainability and is a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development (RUS). President of the Center of Excellence for University Sustainability.

Since 2014, he has held a number of important positions on behalf of the University of Bari: he has been Delegate for 5G Experimentation, Contact Person for Digital Agenda and Smart City, Delegate for Dematerialization and Improvement of Processes and Services, Member of the Committee for e-learning, Head of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Member of the Interclass Council of Courses of Study in Computer Science.Director of the CINI National Laboratory on Digital Competencies, Training and Certifications, he is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Observatory of Urban Policy Studies (Urban@it), the University Center of Excellence for Creativity and Innovation, and the University Center for Lifelong Learning at the University of Bari.

Professor Pirlo is the author of more than four hundred scientific articles published in national and international proceedings and journals in the following areas: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Pattern Recognition, Cybersecurity, Smart City, and Biometric Systems.

Sayeh-Bayat

Dr. Sayeh Bayat

Sayeh Bayat is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Geomatics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) in the Cumming School of Medicine, and the director of the Healthy City Laboratory (HCL) at the University of Calgary.

Her research integrates innovative methods from engineering, machine learning, and geographic information science to create intelligent solutions for dementia care and diagnosis.

This cross-disciplinary effort, to this date, has resulted in innovative techniques to study people in the context of their everyday environments, and new insights into the relationship between mobility behaviours and cognitive functions.

Through her work, Dr. Bayat aims to explore whether a human-centric approach to machine learning can assist in the detection, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of health problems including dementia.

Current specific interests include automobile technology, driving behaviours and mobility in older adults and individuals with dementia.

Shehroz-Khan

Dr. Shehroz Khan

Research Scientist at KITE and Assitant Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Shehroz Khan is a Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Rehab Lab at the KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Canada. He is also cross appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a PhD Degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada in Computer Science with specialization in Machine Learning.

Dr. Khan’s main research focus is the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms within the realms of Aging, Rehabilitation and Intelligent Assisted Living (ARIAL). As a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI, his research program has been funded through NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, AGEWELL NCE, NFRF, AMS Healthcare, CABHI, LG Electronics, UAE University and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

He has published 54 academic papers in top international journals and conferences that have garnered more than 2900 citations on Google scholar. He is the founder and organizer of the peer-reviewed International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for ARIAL that is held in conjunction with top conferences in the field (2017-2022).

Dr. Gael Varoquaux

Dr. Gael Varoquaux

Gaël Varoquaux is a research director working on data science and health at Inria (French Computer Science National research).

His research focuses on statistical-learning tools for data science and scientific inference, with an eye on applications in health and social science. He develops tools to make machine learning easier, with statistical models suited for real-life, uncurated data, and software for data science. For example, since 2008, he has been exploring data-intensive approaches to understand brain function and mental health.

He co-funded scikit-learn, one of the reference machine-learning toolboxes, and helped build various central tools for data analysis in Python. Varoquaux has a PhD in quantum physics and is a graduate from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

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Dr. Narges Razavian

Narges Razavian is an assistant professor in the Departments of Population Health and Radiology and a member of NYU Langone’s Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Sciences and its Predictive Analytics Unit.

Her lab focuses on various applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence for medicine with a clinical translation outlook, and they work with medical images, clinical notes, and electronic health records. Before joining NYU Langone, she was a postdoc at CILVR Lab at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She received her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in the computational biology group.

Dr. Olga Tsubiks

Dr. Olga Tsubiks

Dr. Tsubiks is a Director of Data Science and Strategic Analytics at RBC, where she applies machine learning and automation for capacity planning and optimization. She has been working in the field of data science for over 10 years. She brings data to life through machine learning, analytics, and visualization.

Outside of her work at RBC she has worked directly with global organizations such as the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, World Resources Institute, as well as prominent Canadian non-profits such as War Child Canada and Rainbow Railroad on various data science and analytics challenges.

Kirill-Korotaev

Kirill Korotaev

Founder & CEO of Purple Gaze

In 2015, Kirill left his corporate job in marketing. He decided that in order to maximize his positive impact on the world he should either study neuroscience to boost our understanding of the human brain or learn programming to contribute to the development of artificial intelligence.

He ended up enrolling in Cognitive Sciences & Technologies master’s program at the Higher School of Economics where he got an opportunity to engage in both: use neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and TMS to collect the data from the brain and build Deep Neural Networks to model the visual cortex.

Today Kirill is the Founder & CEO of Purple Gaze, an Amsterdam-based computer vision and neurotechnology startup that leverages Eye Tracking and AI to identify biomarkers of neurodegenerative disorders in the patterns of eye movements data.

Dr.Nouha-Bengaied

Dr. Nouha Bengaied

Director Research and Development, Quality of Services at the Federation of Quebec Alzheimer Societies

Dr. Nouha Ben Gaied holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Strasbourg (France), which she completed with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southampton (England), she then worked as a production supervisor in the chemical industry and more specifically in the filed of large-scale oligonucleotide synthesis.

In 2013, Dr. Ben Gaied joined the Federation of Quebec Alzheimer Societies as Director Research and Development, Quality of Services. Her role is to promote the Alzheimer Society Research Program, ensure knowledge transfer and exchange activities with researchers in Quebec working in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, and implement harmonized programs within the Alzheimer Societies.

Dr. Nouha BengaiedDr. Ben Gaied is the author of several scientific articles, co-investigator on several research projects and sits on several ministerial committees or provincial initiatives dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease

Dr. Gael Varoquaux

Dr. Gael Varoquaux

Gaël Varoquaux is a research director working on data science and health at Inria (French Computer Science National research).

His research focuses on statistical-learning tools for data science and scientific inference, with an eye on applications in health and social science. He develops tools to make machine learning easier, with statistical models suited for real-life, uncurated data, and software for data science. For example, since 2008, he has been exploring data-intensive approaches to understand brain function and mental health.

He co-funded scikit-learn, one of the reference machine-learning toolboxes, and helped build various central tools for data analysis in Python. Varoquaux has a PhD in quantum physics and is a graduate from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

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Dr. Narges Razavian

Narges Razavian is an assistant professor in the Departments of Population Health and Radiology and a member of NYU Langone’s Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Sciences and its Predictive Analytics Unit.

Her lab focuses on various applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence for medicine with a clinical translation outlook, and they work with medical images, clinical notes, and electronic health records. Before joining NYU Langone, she was a postdoc at CILVR Lab at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She received her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in the computational biology group.

Dr. Kathy Malas

Dr. Kathy Malas

Dr. Kathy Malas is Associate to the President and Chief Executive Officer and leader of the Pole of innovation and artificial intelligence in Health at the Hospital Center of the University of Montreal CHUM. She is a dedicated manager in fostering the integration of care, teaching, research, innovation in partnership with patients and employees.

Dr. Malas is passionate about innovation and knowledge management as a vector of transformation of the healthcare system. She also encourages open innovation with partners of all horizons to better respond to the health needs of patients and their families.

Having obtained a graduate certificate at McGill University in Health Management and obtained her Master degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Université de Montréal, Dr. Malas implements a strategy of innovation and IA, is a professional research in health innovation management research projects and facilitates community practices in this field. She deploys concrete mechanisms to foster a culture, an organization and open ecosystem of innovation to create value: improving health and well-being for all!

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Dr. Shehroz Khan

Research Scientist at KITE and Assitant Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Shehroz Khan is a Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Rehab Lab at the KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Canada. He is also cross appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a PhD Degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada in Computer Science with specialization in Machine Learning.

Dr. Khan’s main research focus is the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms within the realms of Aging, Rehabilitation and Intelligent Assisted Living (ARIAL). As a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI, his research program has been funded through NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, AGEWELL NCE, NFRF, AMS Healthcare, CABHI, LG Electronics, UAE University and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

He has published 54 academic papers in top international journals and conferences that have garnered more than 2900 citations on Google scholar. He is the founder and organizer of the peer-reviewed International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for ARIAL that is held in conjunction with top conferences in the field (2017-2022).

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DR. NGUYEN-VI MOHAMED ​​

Pannel Moderator

Dr. Nguyen-Vi MOHAMED is a neuroscientist with entrepreneur skills. She did her thesis at the CRCHUM, University of Montreal where she studied the secretion of Tau protein in Alzheimer’s disease. Then, as a postdoctoral fellow, she joined the Neuro, at the MNI, McGill University, for which she won many excellence awards and distinctions for her cutting-edge research on stem cell technologies and Parkinson’s disease. She also received several fundings from Parkinson’s Canada, Parkinson’s Quebec, FRSQ and private donations to support her research.

She teaches Stem Cells Technologies at University of Montreal to graduate students in neurosciences. Over the past years, her work on cerebral organoids derived from patients, was featured many times in the media. In addition to her academic work, Dr. MOHAMED is also an entrepreneur as co-founder and manager of a French bakery. She recently joined MEDTEQ+ as an account executive to help for the maturation of innovative healthcare technologies.

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