The generative revolution: AI foundation models in geospatial health-applications, challenges and future research.

IF 3 2区 医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Bernd Resch, Polychronis Kolokoussis, David Hanny, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Maged N Kamel Boulos
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Abstract

In an era of rapid technological advancements, generative artificial intelligence and foundation models are reshaping industries and offering new advanced solutions in a wide range of scientific areas, particularly in public and environmental health. However, foundation models have previously mostly focused on understanding and generating text, while geospatial features, interrelations, flows and correlations have been neglected. Thus, this paper outlines the importance of research into Geospatial Foundation Models, which have the potential to revolutionise digital health surveillance and public health. We examine the latest advances, opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations of geospatial foundation models for research and applications in digital health. We focus on the specific challenges of integrating geospatial context with foundation models and lay out the future potential for multimodal geospatial foundation models for a variety of research avenues in digital health surveillance and health assessment.

生成革命:地理空间健康应用、挑战和未来研究中的人工智能基础模型。
在技术快速进步的时代,可生成人工智能和基础模型正在重塑行业,并在广泛的科学领域,特别是在公共和环境卫生领域提供新的先进解决方案。然而,基础模型以前主要集中在理解和生成文本,而地理空间特征、相互关系、流动和相关性被忽视。因此,本文概述了地理空间基础模型研究的重要性,这些模型有可能彻底改变数字健康监测和公共卫生。我们研究了数字健康研究和应用的地理空间基础模型的最新进展、机遇、挑战和伦理考虑。我们侧重于将地理空间背景与基础模型相结合的具体挑战,并为数字健康监测和健康评估的各种研究途径规划了多模态地理空间基础模型的未来潜力。
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International Journal of Health Geographics
International Journal of Health Geographics PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH -
CiteScore
10.20
自引率
2.00%
发文量
17
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: A leader among the field, International Journal of Health Geographics is an interdisciplinary, open access journal publishing internationally significant studies of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare. With an exceptional author satisfaction rate and a quick time to first decision, the journal caters to readers across an array of healthcare disciplines globally. International Journal of Health Geographics welcomes novel studies in the health and healthcare context spanning from spatial data infrastructure and Web geospatial interoperability research, to research into real-time Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled surveillance services, remote sensing applications, spatial epidemiology, spatio-temporal statistics, internet GIS and cyberspace mapping, participatory GIS and citizen sensing, geospatial big data, healthy smart cities and regions, and geospatial Internet of Things and blockchain.
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