D3.1 - First Report on the Framework Knowledge Base

EU4CHILD is an EU-funded project whose goal is to understand how Artificial intelligence (AI) can help to improve paediatric cancer care. As a product of Task 3.1 of Work Package 3, this Deliverable 3.1 anticipates dimensions of a future Framework on AI for paediatric cancer and gives an example of how one particular type of information resource – a documentary information repository from different domains such as the scientific, ethical, regulatory and clinical domains – can be articulated as a Knowledge Base that suits the information needs of a variety of audiences within the paediatric cancer sector and can feed, alongside other data sources such as cancer registries, imaging repositories, etc., a future AI based platform for paediatric cancer. For that purpose, the EU4CHILD consortium is working on constructing a knowledge base prototype for pediatric cancer. As part of this prototype the foundation for the design of such a platform is laid, taking into account the perspective of multiple stakeholders focusing on both clinical and technical content. In the process of creating the prototype, the ideal and polished version of such a knowledge base is also envisioned and described as a theoretical construct, for which the realization is beyond the scope of this research project.
During the coming 6 six months, the Framework will be developed, and the Knowledge Base will be refined and continued to be populated with content, so that the final result will be reported in deliverable D3.2.