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Cancer Digital Intelligence

@pmcdi.bsky.social
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We aim to accelerate the application of discoveries in cancer care through the fusion of human wisdom, data and technology. Our home is at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
SCARF combines benchmarking, expert review, and reproducibility testing. Using the framework, AI-generated contours for 16 of 19 organs of interest were deemed clinically acceptable, requiring only minor revisions. An important step toward trustworthy AI in cancer care. 👏 🧵 2/2
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨 New Publication Alert! Researchers from our team and collaborators at @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social introduce SCARF, a framework for evaluating AI auto-segmentation models in head & neck cancer radiotherapy. 🔗https://www.phiro.science/article/S2405-6316(26)00115-6/fulltext 🧵 1/2
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We’re proud of our team’s contributions to developing AFFRM-AI Interested in learning more? Join the @uhnaihub.bsky.social Rounds tomorrow for a walkthrough of the framework 🔗https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a7a4a6f4-f4f2-48b3-ac78-f3b31701bcf8@d90dce05-063d-414f-aefe-c292ff18d8b0
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University Health Network @uhn.ca · 05/06/2026
Thank you to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social and Minister @evansolomon.bsky.social for joining us to see firsthand how AI is improving patient care in Canada. We are excited to partner with you in advancing AI for All. Read more: bit.ly/4ugaIn6
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Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
May is Cancer Research Month Terry Fox believed research could save lives. That’s why TFRI provides funding to world-class cancer research and initiatives like the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network and the Digital Health & Discovery Platform.
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Benjamin Haibe-Kains @bhaibeka.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our recent paper offers a practical framework to move AI in health care from promise to responsible implementation, focusing on equity, bias mitigation, clinical evaluation, monitoring. @uhnresearch.ca @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @pmcdi.bsky.social Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🚀 From experimentation → high impact Our 2025 Impact Report is live 👉 pmcdi.ca/impact-report/ In 2025, we scaled initiatives at @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social -- from strengthening responsible AI practices to extending care beyond hospital walls Check out what we've been working on!
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University Health Network @uhn.ca · 26/11/2025
Today the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation announced an unprecedented donation. The $50 million gift, donated by Peter Gilgan Foundation, will establish the Peter Gilgan Centre for Early Cancer Detection Research at UHN's Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Read more: bit.ly/4rochiw
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Benjamin Haibe-Kains @bhaibeka.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I am honoured to step into the role of @uhn.ca Executive AI Scientific Director and Co-Director of the @uhnaihub.bsky.social This is a major opportunity to accelerate how we bring responsible, transparent and effective AI into patient care, research, education and operations across UHN.
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Benjamin Haibe-Kains @bhaibeka.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Excited to speak at the 2025 POET Conference in Calgary 🇨🇦! Talk: “All Lesions Matter: Reimagining Response with AI and Radiomics” 👉 AI + radiomics aren’t just tools, they’re changing how we see disease, measure response, and personalize therapy. poet-calgary.ca
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
At @uoft-tcairem.bsky.social AI in Medicine conference, our own Ale Berlin joined a debate: AI will begin to replace some doctors within the next 5-10 years ✅ yes: Ale and a North York General patient partner ❌ no: UHN’s Dr. Heather Ross and a patient partner 💬 What’s your take?
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Benjamin Haibe-Kains @bhaibeka.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨 Excited to chair the AI Applications in Human Health session at the MAQC 8th Annual Conference to make AI clinically relevant and reproducible. Transparency, reproducibility & reusability aren’t optional—they’re the foundation for trustworthy AI in healthcare. Join us: themaqc.org #AI #MAQC25
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UofT-TCAIREM @uoft-tcairem.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📣 Registration is OPEN for T-CAIREM’s 2025 Conference! 🗓️ Nov 14 2025 in Toronto! 🎤 The Evolution of #GenerativeAI 💡 Panels, debates & talks with leading #AI & #medicine experts 🔗 ow.ly/I7bO50WS6RC #AIinMedicine #AI #HealthAI #MedTech #AIinHealthcare
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2025 T-CAIREM Conference
The Evolution of Generative AI
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🔬 Can AI predict cancer-related symptoms before they happen? A new study between our team @pmcdi.bsky.social and Dr. Robert Grants team @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social used ML on routine EHR data to forecast symptom deterioration in aerodigestive cancer patients. 👇 ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Thank you to everyone at @pmcdi.bsky.social and across @uhn.ca for bringing compassion, excellence, and heart into everything we do 💙 Together we are advancing discoveries and transforming the future of #CancerCare #TeamUHN #UHNGratitude @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca
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Research at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · 28/08/2025
Congratulations to Drs. Cheryl Arrowsmith and John Dick on receiving the Canadian Cancer Society's Robert L. Noble Prize and Lifetime Contribution Prize, respectively! 🎉 These awards honour outstanding contributions and lasting impact in #CancerResearch.
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🌏✈️ Taking @pmcdi.bsky.social innovation to Australia! 🎉Our Director of Design & Innovation, Mike Lovas, will be speaking at the #NSWCancerSummit2025 Check out Mike's talks and full lineup:🔗 cancer.nsw.gov.au/what-we-do/e... 📅 Aug 13–14 @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
4/4🧠Shoutout to CDI’s Joshua Siraj for his poster presentation: "JarvAIs: A modular framework to standardize ML workflows and accelerate reproducible AI in oncology—benchmarking against human-developed models." All in all, a great success! Way to go team 💪
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
3/4👏 Kudos to CDI’s Benjamin Grant for his plenary session talk, and Christopher Deutschman for his poster: "A practical framework for operationalizing responsible and equitable AI in healthcare: Tackling bias, inequity, and implementation challenges."
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
2/4 🎉Congratulations to CDI's @bhaibeka.bsky.social on co-chairing the conference, alongside @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social, @bowang87.bsky.social, @valboeva.bsky.social @bhaibeka.bsky.social also gave a plenary talk "Uncovering and mitigating bias in auto-segmentation models in radiation oncology.”
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
1/4 Last week was an exciting one for @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social's CDI program at the AACR conference! This year’s focus: The transformative role of AI in oncology—from imaging innovations to foundation models shaping the future of #precisiononcology @theaacr.bsky.social #AACRai25
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
#AACRai25 cochairs Valentina Boeva and Benjamin Haibe-Kains adjourned the AACR Conference on AI and Machine Learning. We thank all of the chairs—including @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social and @bowang87.bsky.social—for developing an outstanding program. @valboeva.bsky.social @bhaibeka.bsky.social
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Shoutout to @pmcdi.bsky.social Tran Truong and Mike Lovas for developing the Artificial Intelligence Patient Librarian — a chatbot that offers on-demand support for patients with metastatic breast cancer. A powerful example of how AI can help bridge gaps in support during a complex time 👏
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Wow! Check this out-- really interesting work by researchers @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social, featuring @pmcdi.bsky.social's Ale Berlin, who explored circular RNA (circRNA) and its role in the progression of #prostate and #lung cancer 🧬A big step in understanding tumour evolution
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🚨From the @theaacr.bsky.social Annual Meeting: CDI’s @bhaibeka.bsky.social on the frontier of #AIinOncology-- virtual biopsies have the power to transform #cancercare 🧬Multimodal AI models can enable earlier and less invasive diagnostics 🔗 www.technologynetworks.com/cancer-resea...
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How Multimodal Datasets and Models Are Helping To Advance Cancer Care
In the era of precision oncology, the integration of high-throughput, multimodal datasets presents both a formidable challenge and a transformative opportunity. We spoke to Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains ab...
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🥊The #FightToEndCancer was a knockout success! Huge shoutout to CDI's Daniel Garcia for stepping into the ring and winning his match! 🏆He also crushed his fundraising goal in support of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation 💪 An unforgettable night💛#FTEC2025 @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhn.ca
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨 A must-read! Huge congrats to the team & shoutout to CDI’s @bhaibeka.bsky.social on this fascinating paper introducing the #HealthDataNexus platform. A game-changer for secure, collaborative #AI research-setting a new standard for data-driven discoveries. Proud to see this innovation! 👏
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Incredible work by CDI's own @bhaibeka.bsky.social and team — making it easier for cancer researchers to collaborate and share data is a huge step forward for accelerating discovery. Grateful for @ccsresearch.bsky.social supporting this important effort. 👏 #CancerResearch
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UHN AI Hub @uhnaihub.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
June is #StrokeAwarenessMonth. As such, check out this recent publication in ATVB Journal from Dr. Kathryn Howe and team exploring endothelial cell communication with cells in atherosclerotic plaques (and AI had an adjunctive role in this work!). 👇🧵 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Multiomic Landscape of Extracellular Vesicles in Human Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Reveals Endothelial Communication Networks | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
BACKGROUND: Carotid atherosclerosis is orchestrated by cell-cell communication that drives progression along a clinical continuum (asymptomatic to symptomatic). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-d...
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UofT-TCAIREM @uoft-tcairem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🫁 Using #ArtificialIntelligence to Detect Changes in #Lung #Tumors with Greater Speed and Precision www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/res... #MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #Healthcare #MedTech
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Changes in Lung Tumors with Greater Speed and Precision
Regular follow-up monitoring is crucial when it comes to treating cancer successfully. In the SPIRABENE project, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS developed a deep learning-based softwar...
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Princess Margaret Cancer Centre @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New insights on brain tumour invasion Our study found that glioblastoma cells hijack normal brain development processes to infiltrate brain tissue, informing new ways to control cancer spread—a study led by Dr. Federico Gaiti in collaboration with Dr. Gelareh Zadeh. www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🙌3/3 Huge thanks to our supporters! @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social, Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials Network, @genomecanada.ca, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation(@pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social)
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
2/3 Developed in collaboration with @bhklab.bsky.social‬ (‪‪@bhaibeka.bsky.social), @pughlab.bsky.social, The Wang Lab (@bowang87.bsky.social), @pmcdi.bsky.social, the platform is currently undergoing rigorous validation. Learn more about our work!👉https://www.pmatch.ca/
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
1/3 It's Clinical Trials Week- an ideal moment to spotlight PMATCH: an AI-powered platform that will help automate the matching of eligible patients to the most suitable clinical trials based on their health data 🧬📊 #ClinicalTrials #AIinHealthcare #CareInnovation
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
2/2 Findings suggest that FaceAge outperformed doctors in predicting short-term survival, and could support clinical decision-making 📖Check out the recent publication & news article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.wbur.org/news/2025/05... @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
1/2 📸🤖 Your selfie might reveal more than you think — including clues for personalized #CancerCare A new study featuring CDI’s @bhaibeka.bsky.social introduces FaceAge, an AI model that estimates biological age from photos Photos as biomarkers? The future of healthcare is here!
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
2/2: Congratulations to our winners Dr. Arash Zarrine-Afsar (UHN) & Dr. Scott Hopkins (Waterloo), and Dr. Rajesh Bhayana (UHN). Over the next year, our CDI team will help bring their projects to life🚀 Stay tuned as we spotlight both projects and our team's efforts!
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
1/2: Grand Challenges thrive on collaboration! 🤝This year's CDI Grand Challenge proudly supports two innovative projects focused on #ResponsibleAI in #CancerCare. As part of this, we're thrilled to feature an exciting partnership with @uwaterloo.ca 🎉 @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.ca
Winners of the Cancer Digital Intelligence Princess Margaret Cancer Centre's Grand Challenge/ (Clockwise from top left:) Dr. Scott Hopkins, Dr. Arash Zarrine-Afsar, and Dr. Rajesh Bhayana.
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🎉 Thrilled to see CDI’s own @bhaibeka.bsky.social co-chairing the upcoming @theaacr.bsky.social Conference on AI and Machine Learning in Cancer Research! 🧬 An incredible lineup and an important conversation—don’t miss it!🗓️Register today: aacr.org/meeting/aacr... @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social
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AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Overview for AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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UofT-TCAIREM @uoft-tcairem.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#Artificialintelligence in #health information management: Using #AI for risk assessment in #medicine www.ama-assn.org/practice-man... #MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #Healthcare #MedTech
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Artificial intelligence in health information management: Using AI for risk assessment in medicine
The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about artificial intelligence in health information management.
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
4/4 👏Huge congrats to the team behind this impactful work and transforming the future of patient-centric care: Mike Lovas, Shayla Devonish, Faiza Somji, Stacie Carey, Adam Badzynski, Susan Wolf, Rita McCurdy, Kelly Lane, Tran Truong & Ale Berlin #TeamUHN @uhntoronto.bsky.social
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
3/4 💡 Since implementation, early evaluation has revealed that Digital Triage is foundational to understanding patients’ unmet needs at home and enabling continuous learning about the challenges they face throughout their care journey
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
2/4 🚀Built with a patient-centered design and integrated into Epic, Digital Triage lets patients submit questions via the myUHN Patient Portal, keeping them connected between visits and helping clinicians respond with the right info #PatientCenteredCare
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1/4 📣 It's #PatientExperienceWeek and we’re proud to spotlight Digital Triage, a service developed by CDI with patients, @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social staff, and leadership! This #innovation helps patients connect quickly with care teams—improving communication and outcomes @uhnresearch.bsky.social
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
During #PatientExperienceWeek, it's inspiring to see AI making a real difference💜 A new study shows how #AIchatbots can support patients with metastatic #BreastCancer by offering guidance during tough care decisions. Shoutout to CDI's very own Tran Truong & Mike Lovas— amazing work by the team! 👏
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Kudos to the incredible CDI team: Sejin Kim, Joshua Siraj, Muammar Kabir, Mattea Welch, Clare McElcheran, Tran Truong👏This is a big step toward scalable, robust, and #fairML frameworks in #oncology @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @uhnaihub.bsky.social
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🎉Huge congrats to our CDI team on launching jarvAIs-an open-source Python package to standardize ML workflows jarvAIs Includes: 🧠 Analyzer – Data insights 📈 Trainer – Model training 🔍 Explainer – Prediction interpretability 🔗https://github.com/pmcdi/jarvais #AI #MachineLearning #Reproducibility
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Cancer Digital Intelligence @pmcdi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Kudos to the incredible CDI team: Sejin Kim, Joshua Siraj, Muammar Kabir, Mattea Welch, Clare McElcheran, Tran Truong👏This is a big step toward scalable, robust, and #fairML frameworks in #oncology @pmresearch-uhn.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @uhnaihub.bsky.social
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