Machine Learning for Cognitive and Mental Health Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
Date & time
26 February 2024
Location
Vancouver Convention Centre
Room 205, West Building
About this event
With a COVID-19 magnified mental health crisis and growing old population (10.7% of population aged over 65 is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and 18% is diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)) there is an immediate need for developing systems that can better understand and characterize cognitive and mental health (CMH) by tracking various biomarkers from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG), speech, electronic health record (EHR), movement, cognitive surveys, wearable devices, structured, genomic, and epigenomic data.
One of the core technical opportunities for accelerating the computational analysis of CMH lies in multimodal (MM) ML: learning representations that model the heterogeneity and interconnections between diverse input signals. MM is particularly important in CMH primarily due to the presence of noisy labels and subjectivity inherent in surveys. The utilization of multiple signals and modalities offers a potential solution to overcome these challenges.
