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Millions in funding for brain simulation

 

eBRAIN-Health brings a variety of information together. This information includes brain imaging studies such as PET, EEG and MRI, behavioral studies and lifestyle surveys, as well as clinical data from thousands of patients and healthy controls. The data is combined with biological information from knowledge databases and made available for research purposes. The resulting digital twins of the brain will allow a large number of researchers to conduct innovative research within a powerful digital platform. The project involves 20 partners and takes place in cooperation with EBRAINS, the coordinating body of the EU flagship Human Brain Project.

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New publications

 

Michael Schirner, Gustavo Deco, Petra Ritter
Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing
Nature Communications 10.1038/s41467-023-38626-y

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New Publication: Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing

Autors: Michael Schirner, Gustavo Deco and Petra Ritter

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Oral presentation : EU Legal Framework for Digital Brain Twins in Health Research: Facilitating Trustworthy AI

During the 33rd Alzheimer Europe Conference in Helsinki! Lukas Faymann, Klaudia Kwiatkowska and Daphné Lamirel gave a presentation titled: EU Legal Framework for Digital Brain Twins in Health Research: Facilitating Trustworthy AI, during which they presented their research conducted for the Horizon Europe eBRAIN-Health Project. During the presentation, they talked about digital brain twins, AI medical devices, the relevance of data protection laws and AI regulation as well as ethical concerns related to stakeholder participation and accessibility of medical AI.

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Artificial Intelligence - Legal Framework & Case Studies

The Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna and the Federal Division of Information and Consulting of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber held the event "Artificial Intelligence - Legal Framework & Practical Cases" on May 21, 2024. Lukas Faymann (UNIVIE) held a presentation on "Europäischen Innovationen in der Demenzbehandlung: KI-basierte “digitale Zwillinge” und ihre rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen" (European Innovation in dementia treatment: AI-based "digital twins" and the legal framework).

More information and a recording of the event are accessible through this link: https://www.wko.at/oe/information-consulting/kuenstliche-intelligenz-rechtliche-rahmenbedingungen (German only)

 

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CPDP.ai Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference

"European AI-powered Solutions to Combat Dementia – How to Implement AI in the Health Sector?" with Petra Ritter,  Ira Haraldsen, Lukas Faymann, and Daphné Lamirel as panelists and Klaudia Kwiatkowska as moderator.



Link to the panel on YouTube.

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Progress

Press, Publications, Events

2024

events, dissemination and communication
Feb. 12, Webinar:"The EBRAINS Project: A Gateway to Collaborative Neuroscience", organized by Castriel2 – with Petra Ritter as invited speaker.

scientific publications

Kathrin Giehl, Henk-Jan Mutsaerts, Kristien Aarts, Frederik Barkhof, Svenja Caspers, Gaël Chetelat, Marie-Elisabeth Colin, Emrah Düzel, Giovanni B Frisoni, M Arfan Ikram, Jorge Jovicich, Silvia Morbelli, Wolfgang Oertel, Christian Paret, Daniela Perani, Petra Ritter, Bàrbara Segura, Laura E M Wisse, Elke De Witte, Stefano F Cappa, Thilo van Eimeren. (2024) Sharing brain imaging data in the Open Science era: how and why?. The Lancet Digital Health.

Katrin Amunts, Markus Axer, Swati Banerjee, [...], Petra Ritter, [...], Lisa Vincenz-Donnelly, Florian Walter, Laszlo Zaborszky. (2024) The coming decade of digital brain research: A vision for neuroscience at the intersection of technology and computing. Imaging Neuroscience

Russell A Poldrack, [...], Petra Ritter, [...], Michael Schirner, [...], Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski. (2024) The Past, Present, and Future of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS). eNeuro (in press)


2023

events, dissemination and communication
Nov. 29, XIV Annual Conference of the Health Cluster Portugal: "Health Business Portugal" – with Petra Ritter's talk: "The Charité Berlin Ecosystem and the TEF Health Project".
Oct. 23-26, SciDataCon 2023 – with Petra Ritter as panelist in session: "Standards for a FAIR Data Future: How to Advance Standardization in Data Management?".
Sep. 27, MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar: "Moving towards Interpretable Models of Functioning Brains For Adaptive Real-World Behavior and Sustainable Health" – with Petra Ritter as panelist.
Sep. 14-15, 6th EU-Japan Workshop on Neurorobotics: "Healthcare and ageing in the era of AI" – with Petra Ritter's talk: "EU Reference Center: Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics".
Mar. 28-31, HBP Summit 2023: "Achievements and future of digital brain research" – satellite event, exhibition day, talk and poster session.
The eBRAIN-Health Website is Now Live   [Public Deliverable]

scientific publications
Michael Schirner, Gustavo Deco, Petra Ritter (2023). Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing. Nature Communications

scientific reports
Scoping review on digital twins for dementia research