Fueling Voice As Biomarker of Health

The Consortium (Who We Are)

The Bridge2Ai Voice Consortium is composed of Voice AI researchers with various backgrounds and from many different institutions across the US and CANADA.

The group is composed of clinicians, data engineers, AI experts, bio-ethicists, speech pathologists, acoustic engineers and educators that have the common goal of building a large human voice database related to health information and disseminating data and findings to improve patient outcomes.

The consortium’s work is centered around people, ethics, and data in order to develop the standardized methods of ethical voice data collection, and to develop the resources and infrastructure to train the future generation of AI researchers.

Structure

Teaming

Yael Bensoussan MD MSc

University of South Florida

Olivier Elemento PhD

Weil Cornell

AIM: To build bridges between the medical voice research world, the acoustic engineers, and the AI/ML world to promote algorithms with the integration of tangible clinical application for Voice AI algorithms

Ethics

AIM: To integrate existing scholarship, tools, and guidance with development of new standard and normative insights for identifying, anticipating, addressing, and providing guidance on ethical and trustworthy issues from voice data generation and AI/ML research and development to clinical adoption and downstream health decisions and outcomes. To develop new guidelines for consenting to voice data collection, voice data sharing and utilization in the context of voice AI technology.

Jean-Christophe Belisle Pipon PhD

Simon Fraiser University

Vardit Ravitsky PhD

President and CEO of The Hastings Center

Standards

AIM: To introduce the field of acoustic biomarkers by developing new standards of acoustic and voice data collection and analysis for voice AI research.

Alistair Johnson DPhil

Sickkids

Satrajit Ghosh, PhD

MIT

Alex Bennett MASc

Sickkids

Tools Development and Optimization

AIM: To develop a software and cloud infrastructure for automated voice data collection through a smartphone application that allows non-invasive, user-friendly, high quality voice data collection while minimizing human manipulation. This will include integrated acoustic amplifiers and acoustic quality standardization. To implement Federated Learning technology to allow analysis of multi-institutional data while minimizing data sharing and preserving patient privacy.

Alexandros Sigaras MS

Weil Cornell

Pantelis Zisimopoulols MSc

Weil Cornell

Jeff Tang

Weil Cornell

Data Acquisition

AIM: To build a multi-modal, multi-institutional, large scale, diverse and ethically sourced human voice database linked to other biomarkers of health that is AI/ML friendly to fuel voice AI research

Yael Bensoussan MD MSc

University of South Florida

Anais Rameau MD

Weil Cornell Medicine

Satrajit Ghosh, PhD

MIT

Robin Zhao

Weil Cornell Medicine

Ruth Bahr PhD

University of South Florida

Donald C Bolser PhD

University of Florida

Micah Boyer PhD

University of South Florida

Jordan Lerner Ellis PhD FACMG

University of Toronto

Tempestt Neal PhD

University of South Florida

Stephanie Watts PhD

University of South Florida

Skills and Workforce Development

AIM: To develop a unique curriculum on voice biomarkers of health and the development, validation, and implementation of AI models that are FAIR and CARE – To create a community of voice AI researchers, especially those from underserved communities, and foster collaborations to promote application of ML for Voice Research – To engage a broad range of learners with competency assessment and mentorship.

David Dorr MD MS

Oregon Health & Science University

Phillip Payne PhD

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Steven Bedrick PhD

Oregon Health & Science University

William Hersh MD

Oregon Health & Science University

Andrea Krussel

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Plan for Diverse Perspective

AIM: To review and implement diversity and inclusion throughout the project’s demographics and in the distribution of the data results researched. 

Maria Powell PhD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Ahmed Toufeeq PhD

University of Texas Medical Center

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In-Hee Lee- FHIR

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