Dr. Theo van Walsum, one of the initiators of the lab: ‘We want to use artificial intelligence to help stroke patients from the 112 moment to rehabilitation. The care pathway After a stroke there are many moments of choice. We want to develop modern AI to help healthcare professionals and patients make better choices.’
Personalized treatment
In the coming years, five PhD students will work in collaboration with Philips to support these choices. ‘We are going to create an environment in which we collect data along the entire patient timeline. We can extract information from that data with AI. For example, for which type of patients which treatment will be more effective. Or which patients need which rehabilitation. We can ultimately use this for personalized treatment to improve patient outcomes.’
Striving to improve outcomes for stroke patients can also reduce the socioeconomic costs associated with stroke.
Stroke
About 1 million Europeans suffer a stroke every year. It is a leading cause of death in developed countries and disables half of patients. More than 6 million Europeans live with the consequences of a stroke. This results in enormous costs: approximately 38 billion euros per year in Europe. Furthermore, strokes are becoming increasingly common in young people, with an estimated 1.5 million strokes per year in Europe by 2025.
Erasmus MC will provide clinical expertise through the departments of Neurology, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine and collaborate with researchers from the Department of Social Healthcare and the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam with expertise in artificial intelligence and biostatistics. The Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management is involved from Erasmus University and the IGT Innovations department from Philips.
Also read the previous article ‘Two labs for artificial intelligence at Erasmus MC’.
2023-09-30 23:00:48
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