New AI Model Aims To Increase Lactation, Breastfeeding Rates in NICU

UF College of Medicine project creates personalized care, interventions

Imagine if when a soon-to-be mother arrived at a hospital in labor, her health care team could predetermine what challenges she might encounter with breastfeeding and develop a game plan to address any lactation complications, before she even gave birth.

Clinicians and engineers at the University of Florida College of Medicine have developed artificial intelligence models that they’re now applying to make this a reality for families delivering babies at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville.

The Maximizing Initiatives for Lactation Knowledge, or MILK+, project combines the skills of physicians, nurses and AI engineers to identify mothers who are not producing enough breastmilk for their babies and increase lactation upon discharge for a particularly vulnerable population: premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit.

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