AIDA Day in September would have been relocated to a place other than Linköping for the first time since AIDA started. Lund would be the first to host. Due to the fact that the situation is as it is, it was instead a well-attended meeting at a distance.

More than 60 participants from around the country participated in the meeting. The theme for the day was “Medical AI Applications and Data Handling” and first out was Bart Wilkowski from the Statens Seruminstitut in Denmark. Bart leads the IT team for Denmark’s national biobank and has been involved in building up the national system for finding biobank samples and data.

The Danish Biobank Register is an open website where researchers can go in and search for material without first having to apply for a permit to use it. When the researcher has established that material or data is sufficient for the study, the application procedure starts. The register provides an easily accessible overview that saves a lot of time and makes the assets visible.

Bart also presented the work they do to collect data produced by the research groups when they analyze biobank samples in databases so that they can be useful in other research studies. This includes building a secure system for pseudonymization.

Lund contributed presentations by Julius Åkesson who talked about improvements in semantic segmentation in deep learning and Magnus Dustler who talked about validation of AI for breast cancer.

During the day, two completed AIDA projects were also presented. It was Rodrigo Moreno, KTH, who told about his project to identify brain structures for the hearing impaired and Christoffer Levandowski, QRTECH, whose project is about diagnosing fundus images.