Apr 22 2024 46 mins
Dr. Imon Banerjee is an Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, working at the intersection of AI and healthcare research. Her research focuses on multi-modality fusion, mitigating bias in AI models specifically in the context of medical applications & more broadly building predictive models using different data sources. Before joining the Mayo Clinic, she was at Emory University as an Assistant Professor and at Stanford as a Postdoctoral fellow. Time stamps of the conversation 00:00 Highlights 01:00 Introduction 01:50 Entry point in AI 04:41 Landscape of AI in healthcare so far 06:15 Research to practice 07:50 Challenges of AI Democratization 11:56 Era of Generative AI in Medical Research 15:57 Responsibilities to realize 16:40 Are LLMs a world model? 17:50 Training on medical data 19:55 AI as a tool in clinical workflows 23:36 Scientific discovery in medicine 27:08 Dangers of biased AI models in healthcare applications 28:40 Good vs Bad bias 33:33 Scaling models - the current trend in AI research 35:05 Current focus of research 36:41 Advice on getting started 39:46 Interdisciplinary efforts for efficiency 42:22 Personalities for getting into research More about Dr. Banerjee's lab and research: https://labs.engineering.asu.edu/banerjeelab/person/imon-banerjee/ About the Host: Jay is a PhD student at Arizona State University. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahjay22/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaygshah22 Homepage: https://www.public.asu.edu/~jgshah1/ for any queries. Stay tuned for upcoming webinars! ***Disclaimer: The information contained in this video represents the views and opinions of the speaker and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of any institution. It does not constitute an endorsement by any Institution or its affiliates of such video content.***