New Dataset Features More Diversity and AI Readiness

Nov 8, 2024 - An NIH-funded study involving seven institution and sites in Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; and Birmingham Alabama will enable new insights into diabetes research. The aim of the research is to collect health information from a more racially and ethnically diverse population than has been measured previously, and to make the resulting data ready, technically and ethically, for AI mining. “Conventionally scientists are examining pathogenesis — how people become diseased — and risk factors,” said Dr. Aaron Lee, UW Medicine professor of ophthalmology and the project’s principal investigator “We want our datasets to also be studied for salutogenesis, or factors that contribute to health. So if your diabetes gets better, what factors might be contributing to that? We expect that the flagship dataset will lead to novel discoveries about type 2 diabetes in both of these ways.”