AI in Healthcare Virtual Summit Session Recordings-AI for Diabetes Treatment

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In a talk titled "Data-Driven Machine Learning and the Future of Closed-Loop Diabetes Care," Dr. Yao describes her journey from an AI safety researcher to combining her expertise in AI with her personal experience as a type 1 diabetes patient to help patients better manage their blood glucose levels. She explains the significant potential of AI in healthcare, especially in enhancing the closed-loop systems for diabetes management through advancements such as automatic carbohydrate and glycemic index estimation from meals. Dr. Yao and her team have developed NutriBench, a dataset for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in nutrition estimation tasks, using real-world dietary intake data. Their work demonstrates the superior accuracy of AI over human nutritionists in estimating meal carbohydrate content, indicating strong potential to assist diabetic patients in meal management.<br /><br />The research also extends into understanding how various exercises affect blood glucose levels, with the aim of designing activity-specific insulin presets to mitigate hypoglycemic risks during and after physical activity. Collaboration with technology and clinical partners aims to refine and verify these models in real-world scenarios, with hopes of integrating AI into existing Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) systems to provide more personalized diabetes care. Dr. Yao is open to collaboration with clinicians and industry partners to translate these AI advancements into practical tools that improve the quality of life for diabetes patients by allowing them to live as normal people without being weighed down by disease management.

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Yao Qin, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara
Co-Director, REAL AI Initiative
Senior Research Scientist, Google Deep Mind

Keywords

Data-Driven Machine Learning

Closed-Loop Diabetes Care

AI in Healthcare

Blood Glucose Management

NutriBench Dataset

Nutrition Estimation

Automated Insulin Delivery

Exercise and Blood Glucose

Personalized Diabetes Care

AI and Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Presets


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