The 2025 Summer Term Cardiac Function Seminar series talks will be back on *Wednesday 18th June 2025* when we will be welcoming Professor Gari D. Clifford, Emory University, Atlanta USA.
Talk Title: The PhysioNet Challenges. From Open Data Science to Capacity Building
Talk Time: 15:00 – 16:00 UK time (please not this talk will be held exceptionally on a Wednesday instead of our usual Thursday and later in the afternoon than usual also)
Location: Hybrid Meeting (Hybrid – online Via Teams and Meeting room 427/428 4th Floor ICTEM, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road W12 0NN
Please note the seminar organizers and the Head of Section would like to request that attendees will in the majority of cases be physically present in the seminar room and a participation via Teams shall be the exception.
Short Bio:
Gari is the Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Emory, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and a Fellow of the IEEE (for contributions to machine learning applications in cardiovascular time series). He has been developing and applying machine learning in the medical domain for over 25 years, focusing on open science through his leadership of the annual PhysioNet Challenges. His applications span neuro-psychiatric health, sleep, cardiovascular disease, and maternal-fetal health. He co-founded the Co-design Lab for Health Equity and Safe+Natal with his anthropologist partner, Prof. Rachel Hall-Clifford, to develop interventions that leverage edge AI tools for diagnostics in and with remote communities.
Talk Description:
This talk will provide an overview of the PhysioNet Challenges, a set of international data science competitions that have been running for 26 years. It will focus on the evolution of open-access cardiac data over the last 25 years, and the potential and hazards involved. It will also focus on this year’s Challenge (which is still open), and which addresses Chagas disease, as a discussion point on how such challenges can be used to address global health issues through scalable AI.
If you are joining online and you have not yet signed up to join the Cardiac Function Seminar Team group in order to participate in the seminar online please register via the linked tab or here which will provide access to the Team.
Please do this ahead of time of the talk.
The Cardiac Function Seminar Team
(Prof. Thomas Brand, Natasha Richmond)