WHAT IS AI FOR HEALTH LAB?
Empowering Medical Professionals and Patients with AI
With the AI for Health Lab we pool resources and share knowledge for the advancement of public health. Working with sensitive patient data is a tricky exercise and so is using AI to do critical diagnosis decisions. Through this Lab we are able to organize more AI for Good Challenges; deliver more real life healthcare solutions to medical centers; and train our machine learning community in specific skills relevant to medical AI.
WHY AI LAB FOR HEALTH PROTECTION?
Improving the quality and access to healthcare
Data science is making its way into medicine beyond labs and clinical research. Healthcare providers increasingly onboard bioinformaticians, medical and clinical data scientists requiring an AI-heavy skillset. AI-powered solutions are assisting with diagnoses, patient care and expanding treatment support beyond medical facilities. We can’t be missing here.
Thanks to support, support of our partner ecosystem and our community of AI for Health engineers developing medical AI solutions, we are able to contribute towards
Make life-saving data available while preserving privacy
Make life-saving data available while preserving privacy
Improve the speed & accuracy of diagnostics in radiology
Foster early detection & prevention of diseases instead of treating symptoms
Make preventive diagnostics more affordable
Improve access to mental healthcare
Model the progress and impact of infectious diseases
WHAT AI TECH DO WE FOCUS ON?
Medical Imaging
The use of artificial intelligence in diagnostic medical imaging has shown impressive accuracy and sensitivity in the identification of imaging abnormalities. Assisting healthcare professionals with detection, segmentation and classification, it can be of immense value for screenings and precision medicine. Our AI for Health engineers used Generative Adversarial Networks to segment X-rays of lungs to detect Covid-19. They applied U-nets and mask-RCNN for instance segmentation of cervical vertebrae to predict patient developing hernia.
Sensitive Patient Data
Medical AI is teeming with sensitive patient data used to train machine learning models. We teach our AI engineers how to handle sensitive information without compromising the model accuracy. We deploy techniques like Federated Learning to train algorithms across multiple decentralized servers holding local data without sharing them.
Explainable AI
For transparent algorithmic decision making we deploy the techniques of Explainable AI or sometimes called Trustworthy AI. In healthcare, it’s important to see how the machine learning model arrived at a certain decision. How does it assess which preterm baby is at risk of getting sepsis or what does the neural network pay attention to when segmenting a medical image (as seen on our heatmap of a lung scan)?
Biosensor Analysis
We collaborate with medical professionals to deploy state-of-the-art medical analysis in our Challenges. In order to develop a usable AI solution, the participants need to understand the relevant hardware and the medical procedures. To improve hernia detection models for example, it’s of great value to have a neuroscientist explain the principles of radiology imaging, hernia diagnosis and its treatment to Challenge participants. Or the analysis of electrocardiograms to prevent heart failure.