Events: AI in Cancer Research
Discover upcoming and past seminars and workshops organized by NCI on AI in cancer research.
Upcoming Events
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Past Events
Cancer AI Conversations: Evaluating AI Models - Benchmarking and Fairness
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
The panel discussed the role of benchmarks to drive focused areas of AI development.
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Tenth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop 2024 (CAFCW24)
Monday, November 18, 2024, 2:00 - 5:30 p.m. ET
This workshop was held as part of SC24, Nov 17-22 at the World Congress Building in Atlanta, GA. It brought together a wide range of individuals including clinicians, cancer biologists, mathematicians, data scientists, computational scientists, engineers, developers, vendors, thought leaders, and others with an interest in advancing the use of computation to better understand, diagnose, treat, and prevent cancer.
Cancer AI Conversations: AI and Global Oncology
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
The panel discussed considerations for AI development and implementation in low-resource, global settings.
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Cancer Moonshot Workshop: Using AI Approaches to Target
Undruggable Cancer Targets
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. ET
This White House Cancer Moonshot workshop, co-organized by NCI, DOE, ARPA-H, and FDA, show-cased the state-of-the-art and future prospects for AI to target undruggable cancer targets and identified strategic opportunities for academia, government, and industry to collaborate in advancing responsible AI toward new drug targets.
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Cancer AI Conversations: AI and Cancer Health Disparities
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The panel discussed ways in which AI has the potential to impact health equity in cancer.
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Cancer AI Conversations: Machine Learning in Cancer Care Delivery - Implementation and Sustainability
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The panel discussed the challenges and opportunities that come with integrating and sustaining AI tools in healthcare systems.
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AACR 2024 NCI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programs and Resources for Advancing Cancer Research
Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 10:15 a.m. PT | View the session abstract
In this session, attendees learned about NCI funding opportunities, resources, and community activities that support the appropriate development and application of AI in cancer research.
Cancer AI Conversations: Machine Learning in Cancer Care Delivery - Moving from Model Validation to Clinical Workflow
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
The panel discussed the challenges faced when moving from the creation and validation of machine learning tools into patient care.
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Cancer AI Conversations: Understanding the role of prompt engineering in generative AI
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
In the first session of the Cancer AI Conversations series, the panel discussed the emerging field of prompt engineering—the process of designing inputs for generative AI tools that will produce optimal outputs.
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Equitable and Engaged AI to Advance Biomedical Research
July 25–28, 2023
Hosted in coordination with the US-EU AI Administrative Agreement, this series of three meetings explored various AI topics relevant to cancer research.
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- Day 1: Privacy Preserving AI
- Day 2: Community/Patient-Engaged AI for Biomedical Research
- Day 3: Ethical AI and Inclusion of Underserved Communities
Virtual Workshop on Medical Image De-Identification (MIDI)
May 22–23, 2023
NCI staff shared the best practices/recommendations for conducting sensitive data removal, known as “de-identification,” as identified by the MIDI Task Group (convened by NCI).
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Cancer Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research: Computational Approaches Addressing Imperfect Data
April 3–4, 2023
NCI hosted a virtual workshop focused on methods to address data limitations for applying AI approaches in cancer research.
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Envisioning a Cancer AI Accelerator
January 10, 17, and 26, 2023
NCI invited thought leaders in cancer-focused AI research to participate in a series of three virtual working meetings to envision the core structure, scope, and priorities for a Cancer AI Accelerator.
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Machine Learning and Health Outcomes in Cancer Care Delivery Research
May 16–17, 2022
NCI conducted a virtual workshop focused on research in machine learning, cancer care delivery, and health outcomes.
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Collaboratively Envisioning AI and Ethics in Biomedical Research
March 14–18, 2022
The NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) sought to build a multi-disciplinary community of stakeholders interested in the social implications of technology to collaboratively envision the integration of AI and ethics in biomedicine to advance the NIH mission.
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