AI Lund is an open network for artificial intelligence hosted by Lund University, Sweden, with over 1400 members from academia, industry, and the public sector. It aims to support AI research, innovation, education, and cooperation. Lund University researchers apply AI within medicine and life sciences across sectors to evaluate opportunities and challenges. AI Lund connects members through events, education, and collaborations to link AI with fields like medicine, life sciences, and materials science.

1. Artificial intelligence at
Lund University
Sonja Aits
Cell Death, Lysosomes and Artificial Intelligence Group
Faculty of Medicine, Lund University
Lund Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Sciences
AI Lund
Mobile Heights ToppenKväll 2020-10-22

2. AI
Lund
AI Lund
Open network for artificial intelligence hosted by Lund University, Sweden
http://ai.lu.se/
 AI research, innovation, education and cooperation
 >1400 members - academia, industry, public sector
 Very interdisciplinary
 Close connections to other local, Swedish and European e-science
organizations
eSSENCEWASP
AI
Sweden
Sustainable
AI Center
AI
Competence
for Sweden
Compute
Graduate
SchoolWASP
HS
RSG
Bioinformatics
ELLIIT
Region
Skåne
Swedish AI
Society

3. ai.lu.se

4. ai.lu.se

5. AI Lund drop-in
guidance on projects and
discussion with AI
researchers
On zoom, every second
Monday
10:00-12:00

6. How could AI Lund help you?
 Connecting with academic collaborators
 Finding experts for consultations/events
 Networking with AI community
 Education
 Joint funding applications
 Suggest hackathon challenges
 Citizen science
 …

7. Lund University
has a rich
environment of
organizations
supporting AI
research,
education and
cooperation
AI Lund: http://ai.lu.se/
eHealth@LU: http://www.ehealth.lth.se
Digit@LTH: https://www.lth.se/digitalth/
eSSENCE: http://essenceofescience.se/
ELLIIT: https://old.liu.se/elliit
WASP: https://wasp-sweden.org/
WASP-HS: https://wasp-hs.org/
AI/Biocompute at LINXS: http://www.linxs.lu.se/
COMPUTE PhD School:
http://cbbp.thep.lu.se/compute/index.php
RSG-Sweden - Lund: http://rsg-sweden.iscbsc.org/

8. Joint e-science calendar:
http://www.compile.lu.se/events/

9. LU students
& researchers
apply AI within Medicine/Life Sciences across all sectors
evaluate related opportunities & challenges
External
organizations
General
public
Linking AI with Medicine and Life Sciences
COMPUTE
courses/
seminars
LUCE
course
package
Popular
science
activities
Cross-
faculty
PhD school
AI Lund
events/X-Lab
Online
material/
MOOC
Student
projects
Interaction
with external
partners
LINXS
Working
group
Research
collaborations
Lectures
in LU courses
Community

10. Linking AI with X-ray/Neutron Science
AI/BioCompute @ LINXS
X-ray/neutron researchers
“the people with the problems”
AIML researchers/companies
“the people with the solutions”
Next seminar: Nov 4
Next hackathon: April 12-14

11. Research examples

12. Wang et al. ArXiv. 2020
Coronavirus articles per year
> 300 000

13. Clinical/research data DatabasesPublications
Disease Patient Treatment

14. Clinical/research data DatabasesPublications
Disease Patient Treatment

15. Drug A Gene BArticle 1
Gene B Gene CArticle 2
COVID19Gene CArticle 3
www.aitslab.org
Artificiell intelligence can identify and
connect pieces of information

16. Drug A Gene BArticle 1
Gene B Gene CArticle 2
COVID19Gene CArticle 3
Text analysis
with AI
Drug A
Gene B
Gene C
COVID19
www.aitslab.org
Artificiell intelligence can identify and
connect pieces of information

17. AI-based text analysis has many applications
Named entity
recognition
Named entity
linking
Relationship
extraction

18. AI for image analysis
www.aitslab.org
Object detection/segmentation Classification

19. AI-based clinical tools
Decision
support for
diagnosis,
prediction,
treatment

20. Cell Death, Lysosomes and AI Group
Language technology
Image analysis
covid19dataportal.se
AI education
http://research.med.lu.se/sonja-aits
www.aitslab.org
http://github.com/Aitslab/
https://www.youtube.com/c/AitsLab
Twitter: @Aitslab
sonja.aits@med.lu.se