• Ciara Greene: "How false news and memories change readers’ behaviour"

    Articles, Disinformation
    Cognitive psychologist Ciara Greene studies attention and memory at University College Dublin. Greene recently published a study on how pandemic-related false news changes people’s behaviour. In this interview, she talks about their psychological experiments to demonstrate our susceptibility to false...
  • Making the medical imaging pipeline smarter

    Articles, Artificial Intelligence
    An interview with Prof. Dr Daniel Rückert, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). In 2020, he received a EUR 2.5 million European Research Council (ERC) grant for the five-year project ‘Deep Learning for...
  • EU project : INCISIVE

    EU projects
    A Multimodal AI-based Toolbox and an Interoperable Health Imaging Repository for the Empowerment of Imaging Analysis related to the Diagnosis, Prediction and Follow-up of Cancer   INCISIVE is a 42-month project that aims at exploring the potential of novel AI tools for enhancing current imaging solutions...
  • EU project : EuCanImage

    EU projects
    Novel pan-European imaging platform for artificial intelligence advances in oncology   The goal of the EU-funded EuCanImage project is to build a secure, large-scale European cancer imaging platform with capabilities that will advance the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in oncology. The platform...
  • EU project : ProCAncer-I

    EU projects
    AI models of prostate cancer diagnosis   In Europe, prostate cancer (PC) is the second most frequent type of cancer in men and the third most lethal. Current clinical practices lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, necessitating more effective tools for discriminating between aggressive and non-aggressive...
  • ESMH Media Review – October 27, 2021

    Media review

    COP26, mental health and misinformation in news: check out the ESMH selection of 35 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web.

  • "Interactive dialogue on social media platforms can help build public trust" - takeaways from the ESMH event at EYE2021

    Articles, Past Events

    What lessons can we learn from Covid-19 to help us tackle the climate emergency? Has Covid-19 changed the way in which we interact with science? How can we reduce the impact of misinformation? And what roles should policymakers, journalists, scientists, and online platforms play?

  • Fighting abusive deepfakes: the need for a multi-layered action plan

    Articles, Artificial Intelligence, New Technologies

    Deepfakes videos herald some promise for the media industry, but at present they are mostly used for malicious purposes including the production of non-consensual pornography. The law is failing to protect victims as it struggles to keep pace with technological advances.