Over the past several decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force in accelerating biomedical research and improving health outcomes.

The Center on Artificial Intelligence Research for Health (AI4Health) is developing novel AI approaches that have the potential to accelerate biomedical research and to improve health outcomes.

Headquartered at the USC Information Sciences Institute, the Center builds on ISI’s long history of innovations in AI and data science for biomedical research. ISI has been the lead organization in eight Coordinating Centers in seven NIH institutes since 2008, with awards totaling $85M for data management, data integration, and AI-enabled data for community analysis. ISI is co-located with the USC Imaging Genomics Institute, where long-time collaborators lead the ENIGMA Center for Worldwide Medicine, Imaging & Genomics.

The Center includes AI researchers with strong expertise in natural language, computer vision, network science, knowledge technologies, data integration, and machine learning. They collaborate closely with other ISI groups on scalable computing, privacy and security, edge computing, and quantum computing to explore unique approaches. The Center has many collaborators in the Viterbi School of Engineering, particularly in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Systems Engineering, and the Institute for Creative Technologies.

As a collider of talent, AI4Health seeks collaborations with health experts that seek to imagine new possibilities with AI. The Center works closely with USC’s Keck School of Medicine, the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, the Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Norris Cancer Center, and the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. Other partners include Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, the Southern California Center for Latino Health, and the ENIGMA Center for Worldwide Medicine, Imaging & Genomics.

Research at the Center is possible through the support of USC and funded awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Novartis, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, the Kavli Foundation, and the generosity of anonymous donors.

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