Project CANAIRI Correspondence Published

About

Project CANAIRI: Collaboration for trANslational Artificial Intelligence tRIals. Established in 2024 as an initiative focused on developing guidance for the silent evaluation phase of AI translation efforts at local health settings. This initiative is co-lead by Dr. Melissa McCradden and Dr. Xiao Liu in partnership with 24 academic, regulatory and industry organizations across 4 different countries.

Our Mission

Project CANAIRI’s mission is to provide actionable, ethics-forward evidence-based guidance for health settings to conduct these silent phase evaluations. We will work to ensure this guidance is accessible and practical for anyone - from the largest academic health centre to the smallest community hospital.

To achieve our mission, we are mapping out how we are currently conducting these silent phase evaluations to identify what’s going well, what could go better, and what are some gaps in the current landscape.

We will connect with experts, stakeholders, and consumers all across the world to hear from them about what they think is important, what barriers they’re facing, and where we need to go as a global community to facilitate better translation through local evaluations.

We will work with multi-disciplinary collaborators to consider the literature, the feedback from global stakeholders, values of relevant authorities, and on-the-ground realities to put together a toolkit for local evaluations of AI tools.

We will develop knowledge resources, co-designed with consumers to support health AI literacy knowledge for this critical stage in evaluation of Health AI.

We will test our toolkit through a diverse set of use cases to make sure we’ve got it right!

Project CANAIRI is grateful for the support of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning’s Centre for Augmented Reasoning. This project is funded by a Project Grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Research. Dr. McCradden is grateful to The Hospital Research Foundation Group for their support of her research.