Advancing Health Equity and Access Using AI

Ehsan Hoque

University of Rochester

https://utsa.zoom.us/j/92387759081

Friday, February 11, 2022

11 AM – 12 PM CST

Did you know using 43 muscles of our face, we can create 10,000 unique expressions? Imagine combining it with language, prosody, body language, physiology, and varying the conversational context (e.g., face to face, computer-mediated, social network). The complexity of modeling such dynamics is still an unsolved problem in computing, making it a grand challenge.

In this talk, I will demonstrate how we can computationally tackle some aspects of the grand challenge with the explicit goal of improving health equity and access. I will provide examples of how AI’s ability to quantify human behavior enables compelling health applications in movement disorders, PTSD, Autism, aging, and terminal illness. I will describe how we can create high-quality and population-representative input data outside of the lab and produce accurate, generalizable, and unbiased results. I will reflect on our experience of engaging the stakeholders early in the process, paving the way for AI into clinical care needs, resulting in practical solutions that end-users, clinicians, and patients find value in.