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Antti
Airola
Associate Professor, Health Technology
Assistant Professor, Health Technology
D.Sc. (Tech.)

Contact

+358 29 450 4193
+358 50 517 8711
Vesilinnantie 5
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

artificial intelligence
data analytics
machine learning
health technology

Biography

Antti Airola, is an Associate Professor (tenure track) of data science in the area of Health Technology at the University of Turku. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, won multiple international data science competitions, and received several research excellence awards such as the the HATUTUS award for the best PhD thesis in the area of pattern recognition in Finland (2010 - 2011) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Paper award (2015). He is currently working as responsible leader in several EU and Research Council of Finland funded research projects.

Teaching

Airola is currently responsible for teaching the course TKO_3103 Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, as well as thesis supervision work (BSc, MSc, PhD). He has developed materials for and taught in many courses in the area of data and computer science, is responsible for developing the curriculum for both national BSc and MSc Medical and health technology programmes, as well as the international MSc programme in Health technology, and directs the AI Academy that coordinates AI related teaching between the faculties.

Research

Airola's main research areas are in the area of machine learning and data science, especially their applications in the health domain.

Publications

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Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification in Men With a Clinical Suspicion of Prostate Cancer Using a Unique Biparametric MRI and Expression of 11 Genes in Apparently Benign Tissue: Evaluation Using Machine-Learning Techniques (2020)

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ileana Montoya Perez, Ivan Jambor, Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Harri Merisaari, Jani Saunavaara, Saeid Alinezhad, Riina-Minna Väänänen, Terhi Tallgrén, Janne Verho, Aida Kiviniemi, Otto Ettala, Juha Knaapila, Kari T. Syvänen, Markku Kallajoki, Paula Vainio, Hannu J. Aronen, Kim Pettersson, Peter J. Boström, Pekka Taimen
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Classification of Atrial Fibrillation and Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Using Smartphone Mechanocardiography: A Multi-label Learning Approach (2020)

IEEE Sensors Journal
Saeed Mehrang, Olli Lahdenoja, Matti Kaisti, Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Tero Hurnanen, Antti Airola, Timo Knuutila, Jussi Jaakkola, Samuli Jaakkola, Tuija Vasankari, Tuomas Kiviniemi, Juhani Airaksinen, Tero Koivisto, Mikko Pänkäälä
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Robust ECG R-peak detection using LSTM (2020)

ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Laitala J., Jiang M., Syrjälä E., Naeini E.K., Airola A., Rahmani A.M., Dutt N.D., Liljeberg P.
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)