Project
- Work Program
- Objectives
WP1: Project Management
WP1 mainly provides the coordination of scientific and administrative activities. Project management, budget allocation, and reporting activities will all be coordinated as part of this work package. This work package will be led by UEvora, who has extensive experience in project management.
WP2: Requirement Gathering and Use Case Co-Design
WP2 is focused on requirement gathering and use-case co-design. Consequently, the key task is to gather requirements and expectations from healthcare stakeholders for the design and evaluation of trustworthy AI solutions and establish high-level requirements for technical research activities of the project. We will then define relevant and convincing use cases in view of promoting the capabilities of developed solutions.
WP3: Explainable AI Models and Evaluation Metrics
WP3 is geared towards developing explainable AI models and evaluation metrics. Harmonic AI will develop explainable AI models with respect to use cases. We will establish formal quantitative evaluation metrics for the quality of AI explainability in the healthcare domain. Lastly, the WP will propose a design framework for explainable AI in digital health.
WP4: Bias Mitigation Techniques and AI Fairness Metrics
WP4 aims to develop bias mitigation techniques, AI fairness metrics, and operational guidelines. The WP will design bias mitigation techniques to improve AI fairness with respect to use cases. WP will also explore fair AI operational guidelines for healthcare organisations. Lastly, we will establish unified quantitative AI fairness evaluation metrics.
WP5: Hybrid Learning Paradigm for Secure and Privacy-Preserving AI
WP5 will propose a three-tier privacy-preserving hybrid learning paradigm for prioritised predictions. It will integrate state-of-the-art privacy-enhancing technologies into the proposed hybrid learning paradigm. The WP will develop security mechanisms to defend against attacks on the cyber-physical system, AI models, and datasets. Lastly, the WP will establish a quantitative metric to measure global privacy loss.
WP6: Human-Machine Collaborative Multi-Objective Model Selection
WP6 will integrate the proposed explainability, fairness, and privacy innovations into a unified AI pipeline. We will develop a human-guided multi-objective model selection algorithm. Further, we will develop a human-machine co-design framework for domain-specific, requirement-oriented trustworthy AI in digital health.
WP7: Implementation, Testing, and Stakeholder-Centered Evaluation in Use Cases
WP7 will implement the proposed explainable, fair, and private AI solutions in use cases. The WP will evaluate the proposed human-machine collaborative multi-objective design framework for trustworthy AI. Lastly, WP will evaluate the proposed guidelines for AI practitioners and healthcare stakeholders.
Research Objectives (RO)
RO1: Stakeholder Perception
Investigate healthcare stakeholders’ perceptions of current use of AI in digital health and gather requirements for the design of trustworthy AI solutions.
RO2: Explainable AI
Build accurate, measurable, and explainable AI models to improve AI transparency for digital health.
RO3: Fairness through De-biasing
Establish a de-biasing strategy that contains a portfolio of technical and operational actions for fair AI deployment in digital health.
RO4: Privacy-preservation
Develop a secure and privacy-preserving hybrid ML/DL learning paradigm for timely, prioritised, and accurate predictions.
RO5: Human-Machine Collaboration
Develop a human-machine collaborative multi-objective model selection framework for coherently explainable, fair, and privacy-preserving AI in digital health.
RO6: Trustworthy AI
Implement, test, and evaluate the developed trustworthy AI solutions in real-world digital health use cases.
Knowledge Transfer Objectives (KT)
KT1: People
Enhance the research and innovation potentials and career prospects of participating researchers, including early career researchers (ESRs) and experienced researchers (ERs).
KT2: EU R&I Potential
Strengthen EU’s competitiveness and leading position in the development of human-centric, sustainable, secure, inclusive, and trustworthy AI.
KT3: Link
Strengthen existing research links among the leading researchers and institutions that allow the exchange of knowledge and professional training. Develop new and sustainable cross-disciplinary, cross-sector, and cross-border collaboration to build up world-leading overarching technologies and systems related to the future trustworthy AI in digital health.
KT4: Dissemination
Effectively disseminate and exploit the outcomes of the project through the project website, social media, publications, and outreach activities.
KT5: Communication
Engage the public in the research and innovation activities and communicate research outcomes with the public to promote AI and digital health technologies and applications.