BATON ROUGE — Meta is partnering with five schools, including LSU, to bring its artificial intelligence models to medical and scientific research.

Meta said it would be providing $2 million in grants to Caltech, Ohio State, LSU, Indiana and UTHealth Houston.

LSU's project will be monitoring for infant tracheostomies, developing a computer vision system to continuously detect tracheostomy tube displacement and signs of distress in infants who cannot reliably vocalize.

A proof-of-concept has been published, with more work to come, Meta says. Dr. Michael Dunham is leading the project.