Information & Ethics committee  Historically, Canada has been a true leader in funding basic research, including through CIFAR, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. This has enabled Canadian research laboratories to play a leading international role, particularly in the field of deep learning, which ha

Information & Ethics committee  This can be approached from various angles. It is important to know where the information is made anonymous. If the data remains within a hospital, for example, and only the algorithms are removed, there is no breach of confidentiality. In this case, only the researchers and doct

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I will venture to answer both your questions, because I had some time to think about it. On the issue of bias, I would say that one of the strategies to minimize it in the medical field would be to use a large amount of data to reflect the target population, particularly in

Information & Ethics committee  However, we see many helpful applications for specific tasks that are repetitive and mundane and that would free up time for us to perform more meaningful tasks, such as communication, explaining procedures to patients or even performing these procedures and attending tumour boar

Information & Ethics committee  To paraphrase Mark Twain, I would say that rumours of our demise are vastly exaggerated at this point. At the CAR, we've approached this question conceptually. It also addresses the previous question: What are the various levels of autonomy of software? We make an analogy with t

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for offering me the opportunity to answer. Serendipity has it that the federal government recently awarded a strategic innovation fund grant to a consortium led by Imagia Cybernetics, a Canadian start-up specialized in AI in oncology, along with the Terry Fox Foundatio

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today about artificial intelligence in radiology, specifically in relation to ethical and legal issues