Powerdent - winner of D-IA-GNO-DENT

We are thrilled to announce that Team Powerdent of UFAZ members - UFAZ DSAI Invited Professor Karim Tout, UFAZ DSAI Coordinator Samer El Zant, UFAZ DSAI student Emil Aliyev, and Hanine Zaidan (dentist), won the 1st place in the prestigious D-IA-GNO-DENT challenge in France!

The D-IA-GNO-DENT challenge, organized by the Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, the Center of Reference for Rare Oral and Dental Diseases, and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, tasked participants with developing an AI-driven solution to detect genetic enamel alterations in dental and oral diseases.

Samer El Zant shared his impressions: “Our team's hard work and dedication have paid off, and we are honored to have been recognized for our efforts. This victory is a testament to the exceptional skills, expertise, and collaborative spirit of each team member. It also highlights how UFAZ is able to compete and win such high-level complex healthcare challenges.”

“I was invited by Prof. Samer El Zant. In this challenge we had to create an artificial intelligence model to diagnose some very difficult conditions in dentistry. The conditions that we had to diagnose were quite difficult for the doctors to see and predict because they were similar to each other and the model that we proposed was working on a step by step basis - we had to predict not one class, but many classes, so it was a multi-classification problem for us. Everyone developed some part of the model. We performed exploratory data analysis, developed a model, tested different architectures on matrices. It was a very fun experience overall and I learned a lot from professors and their expertise”, shared with us Emil.

The winning team will receive a reward of 20000 euros.