AI for Cardiology: Two UNIGE Researches at the Heart of an European Project
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The ARGENTIC project, funded by Horizon Europe, has just secured €7.5 million to develop a sovereign, energy-efficient AI system — to be rolled out across 19 institutions in 9 countries. Elena Tessitore and Douglas Teodoro, from University of Geneva (UNIGE), will lead the healthcare pillar.
Elena Tessitore (HUG / Faculty of Medicine, UNIGE) and Douglas Teodoro (Faculty of Medicine, UNIGE – Data Science for Digital Health) will co-lead the healthcare pillar of ARGENTIC, a major Horizon Europe project supported with EUR 7.5 million and bringing together 19 institutions across 9 countries.
The Geneva teams will focus on a highly promising use case: enabling real-time analysis of vital signs from hospitalised cardiac patients — including ECG, heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation — to help detect arrhythmias and cardiac decompensation earlier, directly at the bedside.
A key innovation of the project lies in its privacy-preserving architecture. Using federated learning, knowledge graphs and digital twins, several hospitals will be able to collaborate on AI model training without sharing raw patient data.
This approach perfectly reflects the mission of the newly launched Geneva Centre for Cardiac and Vascular Research (GCCVR), which aims to strengthen synergies between clinical medicine, cardiovascular research and data-driven innovation.
It also highlights, once again, the unique strengths of the Swiss Health Valley: a compact and highly connected ecosystem where hospitals, universities, research labs and innovators can rapidly collaborate to bring cutting-edge innovation closer to patients.
Congratulations to Elena Tessitore and Douglas Teodoro on this outstanding European recognition.
➡️ Source: UNIGE | 📸 ©UNIGE and AI generated