From 7 to 10 July 2026, SmartCHANGE joined the AIME 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Ottawa, Canada, represented by our partners from the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE).
About the event
The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine has served as a foundational gathering for the global AI-in-health community for over 40 years, bringing together clinicians, computer scientists, biomedical researchers, and health system leaders to advance intelligent systems in healthcare. Now in its 41st year, AIME 2026 marked the 24th edition of this prestigious event, hosted at the University of Ottawa. The conference offered a unique opportunity to engage with global leaders, present transformative research, and shape the future of AI in medicine.
SmartCHANGE at the event
On Wednesday 8 July, our partner Ana Krstevska (JSI) presented a joint research paper as part of the session "Beyond Accuracy (1): Human Factors, Data Scale & Green AI", a session dedicated to the broader dimensions of trustworthy and responsible AI in clinical settings, bringing together five papers that looked beyond performance metrics to explore reliability, human factors, and real-world impact.
The SmartCHANGE contribution, entitled "Evaluating Static and Dynamic Approaches for Assessing Trustworthiness in Medical Risk Factor Forecasting", co-authored by Mykola Pechenizkiy, Rianne M. Schouten, Soroush Ghandi, and Mitja Luštrek, addressed one of the most pressing challenges in clinical AI: not just whether a model is accurate, but whether it can be trusted.
The research studied predictive trustworthiness in forecasting cardiovascular risk factors from childhood and adolescence to later ages, comparing a dynamic approach based on probabilistic uncertainty with a static approach identifying interpretable subgroups with consistently high prediction error. Domain experts favoured a conservative combination strategy, noting that predictive uncertainty is particularly valuable for refining patient dialogue.
The presentation was a natural fit for AIME's focus on scientific excellence, clinical relevance, and ethical responsibility in AI, values that sit at the heart of the SmartCHANGE project.
Learn more on the official event website.