Hertie Foundation establishes new institute combining artificial intelligence and neuroscience

Hertie Foundation donates 10 m'euros in sponsorship for joint project with University of Tübingen Institute to comprise new building block in Cyber Valley, Europe's largest AI research consortium New institute will use advances in artificial intelligence to help patients with neural disorders - This month marks the launch of an outstanding project integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and neuromedicine - the Hertie Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Brain Health (Hertie AI). Founded on February 1 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen, it will be the first institute in Germany to research the prevention and early diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system using artificial intelligence methods. AI and big data for the prevention of brain diseases - Hertie AI will build on recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence and use them to better understand the nervous system in both healthy and diseased states. With the help of complex data sets now available in basic research and collected in everyday clinical practice, new methods will be developed at the Institute to detect diseases of the nervous system earlier, to predict disease progression and to apply treatments in a more targeted manner. To fully exploit this potential, Hertie AI will focus on the methodological innovations that meet the special requirements placed on clinically applied AI methods in clinical use - accuracy, robustness and accountability. Founding director Philipp Berens, professor of Data Science at the University of Tübingen and spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" has been conducting research in the field for 15 years.