AI in Medicine

Dr. Chollette Olisah - Principle Investigator

Build novel machine vision and learning algorithms for accelerating medical diagnosis in healthcare with particular interest in chronic diseases and providing AI interventions for advancing care and well-being of older adults. 

AI Interventions for Chronic Diseases Diagnosis

Brain Tumor

This project is aimed at developing machine learning algorithms for Glioma semantic segmentation, and for the assessment of the risk of tumor core on brain and cognition. Early stages of development includes the development of a deep convolutional neural network based encoder-decoder network for automated Glioma semantic segmentation. Model shows to be highly performance-efficient and achieves it at minimized computational cost. 


Alzheimer Disease

This project focuses on the development of machine learning algorithms for identifying and detecting digital biomarker with early signs of Alzheimer disease progression. The goal of the project is to create a tool to be used by neurologist in identifying early-on mild cognitive patients who are more likely to progress to Alzheimer disease and can be used to discover the pattern of Alzheimer disease progression and severity for patients who already have Alzheimer disease.  Progress has begun with development of CNN architecture for discriminating between mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease in order to understand the relationship that exist between the disease states before further research is carried out towards progression. 

Epilepsy

The aim is to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for seizure-to-body pulse associative learning to investigate the correspondence between an epileptic seizure and human pulses. This will aid in the development of a machine learning model for predicting seizure onset in order to improve the quality of life of people living with epilepsy. Then will eventually be used to design AI-controlled wearable non-invasive devices for monitoring and managing epipleptic seizure.


This project is aimed at answering the research question of, how related is the life expectancy of a type 2 diabetic patient in relation to race, age, gender and how its extended risk of resulting in a range of complications such as heart attack, stroke kidney disease, and high cholesterol. To answer the research questions, the project proposes to devleop AI algorithms for investigating the interaction between the risk factors and predicting the life expectancy of type 2 diabetic patient. 


Diabetes

https://www.howtorelief.com/hyperglycemia-causes-symptoms-treatment-complication/

Towards AI Interventions for Older Adults RoboCare 

This project is aimed at developing AI solution that is capable of encoding the abnormal posture, unsteady motion, pace from gaits of older frail adults for learning patterns of early signs of fall and confusion in frail older adults. This will eventually lead to the design of AI RoboCare to offer care services to older adults in care homes. The project has made substantial progress with creating a novel dataset that meets the needs of researchers for analysing the gait of frail older adults.