Centre for AI Innovation

Karin Dembrower was honored with this year's AI@KI Award for her outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence in healthcare – not only through pioneering research, but also by successfully translating these innovations into clinical practice.

She received the award at the latest Advances in Artificial Intelligence at KI conference on December 2, and was selected by the Centre for AI Innovation out of nominated candidates.

Artificial Intelligence that detects breast cancer, enables medical imaging in low-resource countries and that identifies the patients who require advanced treatment even at the point of diagnosis – these are just a few examples of AI research at Karolinska Institutet that is impacting an entire world. Parts of this work were presented during the conference AI@KI, Advances in Artificial Intelligence at Karolinska Institutet, on 2 December 2025.

A new international study published in The Lancet Oncology shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can be more accurate than experienced radiologists in detecting pancreatic cancer on computed tomography (CT) scans. The study is a collaboration between Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and the University of Bergen in Norway.

Around 200 AI enthusiasts – from SMEs, healthcare providers, academia, decision-makers, and service providers for AI development - gathered last week at KI to discuss different aspects of implementing AI in healthcare. The event - Deploying Trustworthy AI in Healthcare - aimed at lowering barriers to AI implementation in clinical settings and was hosted by TEF-Health together with Health Data Sweden, two European Union funded initiatives designed to help SMEs and other innovators.