Value
There is a large potential in using AI in medicine. Use case include digital pathology, segmentation of organs and tumor, and detecting anomalies in time series data. Today doctors manually generate annotated training data. The software needs to learn from this user generated data to improve machine learning models. Without the data, they do not reach the required scale of data to train high performing models.
Data challenges
The problem is that the data is sensitive, owned by the customers, and subject to health data regulations. Data cannot be be moved off site and shared, and cannot be used effectively to improve AI software. Single clinics struggle with obtaining diverse enough data in large enough quantities. Anonymization and pooling of data is both costly, time consuming, and risks reducing data utility.