Researchers Tanja Alderliesten of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Peter Bosman of the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands (CWI) are going to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect the hereditary cholesterol disease FH at an early stage. They also want to predict who is at risk of developing heart disease due to narrowed arteries, not only in FH patients, but also within the general population.
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Introduction
LUMC strongly underpins the idea that ‘Science is the driving force behind innovative healthcare’. Outcomes of top level fundamental, translational and clinical research by LUMC researchers form a strong basis for innovative and qualitative healthcare on a national, European and international level.
A real game changer was the development of the Dutch national research agenda (NWA) in 2015. The agenda reveals the complexity of the issues challenging Dutch society today. These issues are clustered in so called routes. LUMC is involved in many of these routes and contributes this way to solving important societal challenges.