During this reporting period, the NetZeroAICT consortium reached a shared understanding of its core values, explicitly aligning with the ethical principles for trustworthy AI as set out by the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the consortium—comprising industry partners, healthcare professionals, and academic researchers—collaboration was established as an additional foundational value.
Achievements
• Legal, ethical and sustainable frameworks for NetZeroAICT have been established
• CT image repository established with more than 590 k CT datasets with continuous data transfer from each 8 clinical sites
• A contrast phase classifier algorithm was created to classify with 95 % accuracy of CT images in the repository, through the Rhino Federated Computing Platform
• Green computing provider selected to be utilized during the training and validation steps of the “Digital Contrast” algorithm
• Development of a robust methodology applicable to multiple AI functionalities (IFUs). Protocols defined study design, inclusion criteria, reader selection, ground truth methodology, and scoring metrics.Feedback improvement loops will come after each IFU.
• Stakeholder engagement activities initiated since M1 of the project, through the establishment of the Public Advisory Group. In addition, an External Advisory Board has been set up.
• Progress on advancing both the environmental life cycle analysis (E-LCA), updating key assumptions and datapoints and refining the lifecycle inventory and the social life cycle analysis (S-LCA), which develops a system boundary specific to social impacts and reviews literature to contextualise stakeholder perspectives. In addition, the demonstration of the economic impact through the Health Assessment Technology model developed.
• Preparations for the first Innovation management and Consortium exploitation plans due at year 2, through the set-up of an asset register and establishment of the Innovation Management Group (IMG) who meets monthly to review the register.
