Cancer Digital Intelligence

🌏✈️ Taking @pmcdi.bsky.social innovation to Australia!

🎉Our Director of Design & Innovation, Mike Lovas,
will be speaking at the #NSWCancerSummit2025

Check out Mike's talks and full lineup:🔗 cancer.nsw.gov.au/what-we-do/e...

📅 Aug 13–14
@pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca

4/4🧠Shoutout to CDI’s Joshua Siraj for his poster presentation:
"JarvAIs: A modular framework to standardize ML workflows and accelerate reproducible AI in oncology—benchmarking against human-developed models."

All in all, a great success! Way to go team 💪

3/4👏 Kudos to CDI’s Benjamin Grant for his plenary session talk, and Christopher Deutschman for his poster: "A practical framework for operationalizing responsible and equitable AI in healthcare: Tackling bias, inequity, and implementation challenges."

2/4 🎉Congratulations to CDI's @bhaibeka.bsky.social on co-chairing the conference, alongside @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social, @bowang87.bsky.social, @valboeva.bsky.social

@bhaibeka.bsky.social also gave a plenary talk "Uncovering and mitigating bias in auto-segmentation models in radiation oncology.”

1/4 Last week was an exciting one for @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social's CDI program at the AACR conference!

This year’s focus: The transformative role of AI in oncology—from imaging innovations to foundation models shaping the future of #precisiononcology

@theaacr.bsky.social
#AACRai25

#AACRai25 cochairs Valentina Boeva and Benjamin Haibe-Kains adjourned the AACR Conference on AI and Machine Learning. We thank all of the chairs—including @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social and @bowang87.bsky.social—for developing an outstanding program.
@valboeva.bsky.social @bhaibeka.bsky.social

Shoutout to @pmcdi.bsky.social Tran Truong and Mike Lovas for developing the Artificial Intelligence Patient Librarian — a chatbot that offers on-demand support for patients with metastatic breast cancer.

A powerful example of how AI can help bridge gaps in support during a complex time 👏

Wow! Check this out-- really interesting work by researchers @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social, featuring @pmcdi.bsky.social's Ale Berlin, who explored circular RNA (circRNA) and its role in the progression of #prostate and #lung cancer

🧬A big step in understanding tumour evolution

How Multimodal Datasets and Models Are Helping To Advance Cancer Care In the era of precision oncology, the integration of high-throughput, multimodal datasets presents both a formidable challenge and a transformative opportunity. We spoke to Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains ab...

🚨From the @theaacr.bsky.social Annual Meeting: CDI’s @bhaibeka.bsky.social on the frontier of #AIinOncology-- virtual biopsies have the power to transform #cancercare

🧬Multimodal AI models can enable earlier and less invasive diagnostics

🔗 www.technologynetworks.com/cancer-resea...

🥊The #FightToEndCancer was a knockout success!

Huge shoutout to CDI's Daniel Garcia for stepping into the ring and winning his match! 🏆He also crushed his fundraising goal in support of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation 💪

An unforgettable night💛#FTEC2025 @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhn.ca

🚨 A must-read! Huge congrats to the team & shoutout to CDI’s @bhaibeka.bsky.social on this fascinating paper introducing the #HealthDataNexus platform.

A game-changer for secure, collaborative #AI research-setting a new standard for data-driven discoveries. Proud to see this innovation! 👏

Incredible work by CDI's own @bhaibeka.bsky.social and team — making it easier for cancer researchers to collaborate and share data is a huge step forward for accelerating discovery.

Grateful for @ccsresearch.bsky.social supporting this important effort. 👏 #CancerResearch

Multiomic Landscape of Extracellular Vesicles in Human Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Reveals Endothelial Communication Networks | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology BACKGROUND: Carotid atherosclerosis is orchestrated by cell-cell communication that drives progression along a clinical continuum (asymptomatic to symptomatic). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-d...

June is #StrokeAwarenessMonth. As such, check out this recent publication in ATVB Journal from Dr. Kathryn Howe
and team exploring endothelial cell communication with cells in atherosclerotic plaques (and AI had an adjunctive role in this work!).
👇🧵 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

🫁 Using #ArtificialIntelligence to Detect Changes in #Lung #Tumors with Greater Speed and Precision
www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/res...
#MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #Healthcare #MedTech

New insights on brain tumour invasion

Our study found that glioblastoma cells hijack normal brain development processes to infiltrate brain tissue, informing new ways to control cancer spread—a study led by Dr. Federico Gaiti in collaboration with Dr. Gelareh Zadeh.

www.cell.com/developmenta...

🙌3/3 Huge thanks to our supporters! @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social, Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials Network, @genomecanada.ca, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation(@pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social)

2/3 Developed in collaboration with @bhklab.bsky.social‬ (‪‪@bhaibeka.bsky.social), @pughlab.bsky.social, The Wang Lab (@bowang87.bsky.social), @pmcdi.bsky.social, the platform is currently undergoing rigorous validation.

Learn more about our work!👉https://www.pmatch.ca/

1/3 It's Clinical Trials Week- an ideal moment to spotlight PMATCH: an AI-powered platform that will help automate the matching of eligible patients to the most suitable clinical trials based on their health data 🧬📊

#ClinicalTrials #AIinHealthcare #CareInnovation

2/2 Findings suggest that FaceAge outperformed doctors in predicting short-term survival, and could support clinical decision-making

📖Check out the recent publication & news article:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

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1/2 📸🤖 Your selfie might reveal more than you think — including clues for personalized #CancerCare

A new study featuring CDI’s @bhaibeka.bsky.social introduces FaceAge, an AI model that estimates biological age from photos

Photos as biomarkers? The future of healthcare is here!

2/2: Congratulations to our winners Dr. Arash Zarrine-Afsar (UHN) & Dr. Scott Hopkins (Waterloo), and Dr. Rajesh Bhayana (UHN). Over the next year, our CDI team will help bring their projects to life🚀

Stay tuned as we spotlight both projects and our team's efforts!

Winners of the Cancer Digital Intelligence Princess Margaret Cancer Centre's Grand Challenge/ (Clockwise from top left:) Dr. Scott Hopkins, Dr. Arash Zarrine-Afsar, and Dr. Rajesh Bhayana.

1/2: Grand Challenges thrive on collaboration! 🤝This year's CDI Grand Challenge proudly supports two innovative projects focused on #ResponsibleAI in #CancerCare.

As part of this, we're thrilled to feature an exciting partnership with @uwaterloo.ca 🎉

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AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Overview for AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

🎉 Thrilled to see CDI’s own @bhaibeka.bsky.social
co-chairing the upcoming @theaacr.bsky.social
Conference on AI and Machine Learning in Cancer Research! 🧬

An incredible lineup and an important conversation—don’t miss it!🗓️Register today: aacr.org/meeting/aacr...

@pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social

Artificial intelligence in health information management: Using AI for risk assessment in medicine The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about artificial intelligence in health information management.

#Artificialintelligence in #health information management: Using #AI for risk assessment in #medicine

www.ama-assn.org/practice-man...

#MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #Healthcare #MedTech

4/4
👏Huge congrats to the team behind this impactful work and transforming the future of patient-centric care: Mike Lovas, Shayla Devonish, Faiza Somji, Stacie Carey, Adam Badzynski, Susan Wolf, Rita McCurdy, Kelly Lane, Tran Truong & Ale Berlin
#TeamUHN @uhntoronto.bsky.social

3/4
💡 Since implementation, early evaluation has revealed that Digital Triage is foundational to understanding patients’ unmet needs at home and enabling continuous learning about the challenges they face throughout their care journey

2/4
🚀Built with a patient-centered design and integrated into Epic, Digital Triage lets patients submit questions via the myUHN Patient Portal, keeping them connected between visits and helping clinicians respond with the right info #PatientCenteredCare

1/4
📣 It's #PatientExperienceWeek and we’re proud to spotlight Digital Triage, a service developed by CDI with patients, @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social staff, and leadership!

This #innovation helps patients connect quickly with care teams—improving communication and outcomes

@uhnresearch.bsky.social

During #PatientExperienceWeek, it's inspiring to see AI making a real difference💜

A new study shows how #AIchatbots can support patients with metastatic #BreastCancer by offering guidance during tough care decisions. Shoutout to CDI's very own Tran Truong & Mike Lovas— amazing work by the team! 👏

Kudos to the incredible CDI team: Sejin Kim, Joshua Siraj, Muammar Kabir, Mattea Welch, Clare McElcheran, Tran Truong👏This is a big step toward scalable, robust, and #fairML frameworks in #oncology

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