Sixteen years with AI in health: Tamás Fodor spoke at a University of Bologna workshop
At the invitation of Professor Rita Fioresi, Tamás Fodor, Head of Software Engineering at Silurus Software, gave a talk at a workshop of the University of Bologna, titled "Sixteen years with AI in health". He first saw the university's buildings ten years ago as a tourist. Returning to the institution, founded in 1088, as a collaborator on EU research projects was a special honor.
His talk traced a line from his early work on depression speech analysis to today's clinical AI. In a joint project of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and Semmelweis University, he recorded patients at a psychiatric ward and searched for objective, measurable markers of depression in their voice, aiming for cheaper, faster, and more consistent diagnosis. The field still asks the same questions today. The methods have changed beyond recognition, and far more data is available, together with tools that can make real use of it.
The workshop also featured talks by Catarina Coutinho on visual field archetypes in optic neuropathies, Angelica Simonetti on the data requirements of training autoencoders for glaucoma visual field reconstruction, and Giovanni Miselli (Datalogic) on predicting the decoding complexity of QR and DataMatrix codes with CNNs and GNNs.
Silurus Software began working with the University of Bologna about a year ago, and several joint EU projects are already in the pipeline.