Episode 29
Global Dynamics of AI in Healthcare
This week we are joined by Darlington Akogo to speak about Global Dynamics of AI in Healthcare. Darlington Akogo is the Founder and Director of Artificial Intelligence at GUDRA, and its subsidiaries; including minoHealth, an AI Healthtech company and minoHealth AI Lab, an AI Healthcare, Biotech and Biomedical Research Lab.
Darlington is the also lead for TG-AI4 Radiology under the United Nations ITU and World Health Organization's Focus Group on 'Artificial Intelligence for Health' (AI4H). He is also an Advisory Board Member and Ambassador to West Africa at AI Expo Africa, the largest business focused AI community in Africa. He is a member of MIT Tech Review Global Panel, and he's a Global Shaper under the World Economic Forum's initiative.
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Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor & Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
Resources:
Read Darlington’s article in the FT where he outlines ‘Five ways AI can democratise African healthcare’.
You can find Darlington’s paper published in Advances in Information and Communication, ‘Detecting and Classifying Biomedical Polymer-Based Scaffolds via a Convolutional Neural Network’.
His paper published in the Journal of Industry on ‘End-to-end learning via a convolutional neural network for cancer cell line classification’.
And his paper for Cornell University, ‘A Standardized Radiograph-Agnostic Framework and Platform For Evaluating AI Radiological Systems’
Watch AI Africa Report ‘s interview with Darlington where he discusses the future of AI implementation in Africa.
Darlington spoke to the Portulans Institute as part of their ‘Black Leaders in Digital Transformation’ series about his work, and the impact of COVID-19 on AI healthcare innovation.
Watch Darlington’s interview at AI Expo Africa 2019, where he was awarded the Directors Choice Award
Ajay Aggarwal’s article in the Financial Times ‘Beware hype over AI-based healthcare in lower income countries’ goes into some of the challenges that lie in the way of AI implementation.
You can explore the work of the UN ITU and WHO’s Focus Group on 'Artificial Intelligence for Health' (AI4H), which is led by Darlington.
And Carol Guensberg’s Voice of America article, ‘Recruiting Tech Volunteers to Fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia ’ investigates a drive to tackle COVID-19 in Ethiopia with data collection.