Sean Manion, PhD (Equideum Health)

Abstract

Interest in and exploration of clinical applications of artificial intelligence has been expanding rapidly, yet clinical AI lags behind many other industries in maturity level - with less than 1% of clinical AI having been clinically validated in some areas. This talk will focus on the current state of clinical AI and associated emerging technologies, the critical steps necessary for clinical validation, and the role statistics will play in broader clinical validation and generalizability of AI in the future.

Bio

Sean Manion, PhD is a neuroscientist with two decades of experience in federal brain research. He is the Chief Scientific Officer at Equideum Health, a small business focused on the application of emerging technology (decentralized machine learning, confidential computing, and blockchain) in healthcare and life sciences. He is a member of the HIMSS blockchain task force and the IEEE SA 2418.6 standards working group for blockchain in healthcare & life sciences. He is a chief editor for the open access, peer-reviewed journal Frontiers - Blockchain for Science, as well as a Fellow of the non-profit British Blockchain Association (BBA) and an editor for the review board of the Journal of the BBA. He co-authored the book Blockchain for Medical Research: Accelerating Trust in Healthcare with journalist Yael Bizouati-Kennedy (2020, CRC Press). Sean is currently writing a book aligning the cybernetic origins of AI with neuromorphic computing and computational neuroscience.