ARGENTIC: a new European project for trustworthy agentic AI in healthcare

We are glad to inform that our group will co-lead the healthcare pillar of ARGENTIC (Agentic Reasoning for the Generative AI-Enabled Cognitive Continuum), a Horizon Europe project awarded under the Empowering AI/GenAI along the Cognitive Computing Continuum call. The consortium brings together 19 institutions across 9 countries, with a total funding of €7.5 million. ARGENTIC aims to build a sovereign, trustworthy and energy-efficient European ecosystem for agentic AI, deployable from the cloud down to connected devices at the point of care. The project combines federated learning, knowledge graphs and digital twins to enable collaboration between institutions without sharing raw data, in line with the AI Act and the GDPR.

At the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine, the project is led jointly by Prof. Douglas Teodoro (Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics) and Dr Elena Tessitore (HUG, Division of Cardiology), under the umbrella of the recently established Geneva Centre for Cardiac and Vascular Research (GCCVR). The Geneva teams will drive the healthcare pilot, which consists in deploying lightweight AI agents, based on sovereign language models, directly on bedside monitoring devices. The goal is to analyse vital signs such as ECG, heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation in real time, in order to detect early signs of arrhythmia or cardiac decompensation, while ensuring that patient data never leave the hospital.