Building BRIDGES: Coordinating the Dissemination and Training for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence

PROJECT SUMMARY (ABSTRACT) The growing intersection of computing, biomedical/behavioral research, and healthcare is expected to accelerate with the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and novel applications of data-driven methods. It is imperative that we bring together leaders in these different areas, fostering interdisciplinary opportunities for sharing new ideas and conversations to shape the appropriate use of AI, particularly in relation to health. For three decades, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) conference has been a leading international scientific conference for computer science. Recognizing how computing could help improve biomedical research, health, and healthcare, KDD created KDD HealthDay, a forum to showcase and advance how AI-driven knowledge discovery can address some of the most pressing challenges in medicine, ranging from personalized medicine through to large-scale public health initiatives. The goal of this supplement is to highlight aspects of NIH’s Bridge2AI program, as well as other major US-funded AI programs, as part of KDD HealthDay 2025. Through this supplement, three sessions will be established: 1) Strategies for Advancing Health AI, which will entail a panel involving national leadership spearheading major health-related AI initiatives; 2) Pillar Programs Transforming Biomedical AI, which will paint a picture of the cur- rent achievements of various national programs to advance AI-empowered biomedicine, as well as the current barriers; and 3) Embracing AI Innovations and Implementation in Biomedicine and Healthcare, which looks to the transformative potential of AI in domain-specific areas of healthcare delivery, biomedical/ pharma/health in- dustries. This coordinated sequence of sessions will be further bolstered by a planned KDD Cup data competition involving datasets from a Bridge2AI Grand Challenge. Collectively, these activities will provide further dissemi- nation of NIH’s Bridge2AI signature program on a global scale.