What is the AINCP project and why it is important

AINCP is one of the largest European project to validate new artificial intelligence algorithms for functional diagnosis and personalised tele-rehabilitation of children with hemiplegia. Researchers from the University of Pisa are leading the project since March 2022. The acronym AINCP stands for "Clinical validation of Artificial Intelligence for providing a personalised motor clinical profile assessment and rehabilitation of upper limb in children with unilateral Cerebral Palsy" - Horizon Europe Framework Program (HORIZON).  

It’s aimed to open new perspectives for clinical evaluation, care and rehabilitation treatment in children with cerebral palsy, one of the most important scientific research that in Europe will clinically validate new artificial intelligence algorithms to develop evidence-based clinical decision support tools for the functional diagnosis of children with hemiplegia (paralysis on one of the two sides of the body) building tele-rehabilitation systems at home.  

These systems will permit not only to carry out the personalized assessment of the child's clinical motor profile but also to set up the personalized rehabilitation treatment of "action observation" (AOT), a new rehabilitation model based on the functioning of mirror neurons. 

Leading this important project, funded for almost 6 million euros (precisely 5,999,942€) by the European Union under the EU Horizon Framework Program, will be the Italian team of the University of Pisa, led, as scientific coordinator, by the researcher Dr. Giuseppina Sgandurra of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, together with a group of researchers from the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa coordinated by Professor Giuseppe Prencipe.