Hector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry (HITKIP)

The aim of the HITKIP is to develop and apply advanced computational methods from the area of artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover the causes of mental illness and thus contribute to the prevention and the improved clinical management of these disorders.

Through the integrative analysis of diverse, high-dimensional data, the HITKIP will characterize biological and environmental factors affecting illness risk along the lifespan, identify the associated mechanisms, and derive predictive signatures that aid in personalizing prevention strategies and clinical care to the individual subject.

The HITKIP amalgamates the development of innovative AI technology, such as biologically informed and geo-distributed machine learning, interpretable machine learning models of dynamic neural systems, and advanced approaches for multimodal data integration, into a coherent AI strategy geared towards the identification of illness and treatment-relevant effects. This research strategy is decidedly translational with the aim of implementing algorithms into tools that have a substantial positive impact on clinical care.

The HITKIP is made possible by a generous grant from the Hector Foundation II.