AI and its healthcare applications
After a short introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Turing test, the talk will focus on the three generations of machine learning developed since the mid-1980s, including the latest generation which has given us Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. Each generation will be illustrated by at least one medical application, and the talk will finish by considering how doctors can best work with AI to improve patient outcomes.
Free event with donations welcome - suggested donation is £20, but you can donate any amount via https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/28169 or on the door.
All proceeds go towards The Archway Foundation's work in tackling loneliness in Oxfordshire.
Reuben College is situated next to the Museum of Natural History / Pitt Rivers on Parks Road. We suggest you arrive from 6.30pm to allow plenty of time to find and access Reuben College Dining Hall in time for the talk at 7pm. (Agenda below)
Professor Lord Lionel Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci is a world-leading expert in the application of AI to healthcare. His work has had a major impact on the identification of deterioration in acute care and on the management of chronic disease. He was elected to the Chair of Electrical Engineering and to a Professorial Fellowship at St John’s College, at the University of Oxford in 1997. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) which he directed from its opening in April 2008 to October 2012. Under his leadership, the IBME grew from 110 to 220 academic researchers, and it was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2015 for “new collaborations between engineering and medicine delivering benefit to patients”.
Professor Lord Tarassenko was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000, and to a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013. In 1996, he was awarded the first British Computer Society (BCS) Medal for machine learning (neural network analysis of sleep disorders). He received the 2006 Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to British engineering leading to market exploitation and he won the Institute of Engineering & Technology IT Award, also in 2006.
Professor Tarassenko is the author of 320 journal papers, 240 conference papers, 3 books and 32 granted patents. He was the Head of the Department of Engineering Science (Dean of Engineering) from 2014 to 2019 and was the Editor-in-Chief for the NHS Review “Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future” in 2019. He is now the Founding President of Reuben College, the University of Oxford’s newest college. He was made a CBE for services to engineering in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List and appointed to the House of Lords as non-party political peer in May 2024.
