We are a diverse, crowdsourced, 'AI for social good' non-profit group comprising of a few hundred engineers, developers, researchers, and medical experts from around the world working towards revolutionizing healthcare using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning principles.
We are currently a team based out of more than twenty time zones working towards a broad set of subdomains including - mapping protein-protein interactions, understanding thirty different types of cancers including - skin, bone, colon, brain, bladder, breast, cervical, cervix, colon, colorectal, eye, lung, esophagus, heart, kidney, larynx, blood, liver, lymph, ovary, pancreas, prostrate, stomach, TB, and testicles.
Founder Daniel J Broz
USA
President Gagana B
India
Manager Tony Holdroyd
UK
Chief Technology Officer Kevin Garda
India
AI Engineer Ninad Shukla
India
Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Purshottam
India
Technical Team Lead Nikhil Kasukurthi
India
Schizophrenia is a chronic cognitive disorder where clinical classification is challenging because of the lack of well-established, non-invasive diagnoses biomarkers. Hence, there is a need for objective systems that can classify schizophrenia using structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) components. We present experimentation to handle multimodal Functional Network Connectivity(FNC) and Source Based Morphometry(SBM) features in order to outperform machine learning benchmarks.
This concept revolving around multilabel classification uses chest radiographs to effectively diagnose Cardiomegaly, Atelectasis, Edema, Consolidation, and Plural effusion. An ensemble model with deep convolutional neural networks is used extracts features from various subsets of data.
A Briefer history on Histopathologic cancers by Dr. Purshottam (2019)
Available for access on request
A note on automated Chest radiograph interpretations by Dr. Purshottam (2019)
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As a part of our AI for Social Good - Africa program, we tried this Kaggle Challenge to identify diseases in the cassava plant, second-largest provider of carbohydrates in Africa. At least 80% of household farms in Sub-Saharan Africa grow this starchy root, but viral diseases are major sources of poor yields.
Analysis of state-wise COVID-19 healthcare preparedness in India in both urban and rural settings taking into consideration factors such as number of hospital beds, number of community healthcare centres and population.
The analysis of breast mammography data based on visualisations using Tableau based on mass shape, calcified type, mass abnormality, and calcified abnormality type. The link for downloading the data set can be found in the blog.
Biomarkers for clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease revolves around quantification of the volume of the hippocampus area. This project is an attempt to use automation for detection.
NOTE : This project is meant to be used for educational purposes only. Please contact developer before use.
EHR data is becoming a key source of real-world evidence (RWE) for the pharmaceutical industry and regulators to make decisions on clinical trials. We are herewith building a predictive model that can identify which type of patients to test drugs on. We first build a regression model that can predict the estimated hospitalization time for a patient and also provide an uncertainty estimate range for that prediction so that predictions can be ranked based off of the uncertainty range.
NOTE : This project is meant to be used for educational purposes only. Please contact developer before use.
In the point of view of building automated diagnostic tools for leukemia, this project deals with malignant cell classification via microscopic image processing. The project is morphologically challenging as affected cells appear fairly similar to normal cells and tend to show unrestricted growth patterns. A SeResNext architecture was employed for the task at hand for identification with an accuracy ~90%.
The efficient spatial pyramid module based on convolutional factorization has been deployed to semantically segment non-small cell lung cancer (with or without IV contrast) referred for curativentent radiotherapy which preserves performance accuracy while being stationed at edge device computational network.
A simple CNN machine learning model is used on skin cancer images for detection of tumors. The dataset used is Dermatology MNIST and the accuracy obtained as per ROC is 99.44.
A simple CNN machine learning model is used on mammography images for detection of tumors.
The advent of neural networks has been a huge thrust to the automated healthcare sector and more so to an era of personalized medicine. In this light, the following work involving the automated detection of cancer from Whole Slide Images(WSI) which encompasses scanning through large swathes of benign regions to identify the areas of malignancy. The precise delineation of malignant tissue is crucial to the subsequent estimation of grading tumor aggressiveness. In this web application, we present a simple Convolutional Neural Network to automatically detect Invasive Ductal Carcinoma(IDC) from Breast HistoPathology Whole Slide Image(WSI) Patches. We experimented with six CNN models - where the number of parameters ranged from 50k to 20M - and we eventually choose a 300k parameter model that gave us the best performance(0.925 +- 0.005) for an optimal parameter count while ensuring stable convergence. The current focus is on fine-tuning these models to reduce risks and minimize error rates.
Generic enhancement over the Grad-CAM architecture provides improvised visual explanations of model predictions with better object localization extended to multiple object instances in a single image frame using weighted partial derivatives of previous convolutional layer feature maps with respect to specific score as generating visualizations of corresponding class labels for positive combinations.
A binary classifier is trained in order to effectively identify metastatic cancer in small image patches taken from larger digital pathology scans. The binary classifier relies on the idea of transfer learning implemented as Xception where existing convolutional neural network layers are reused to extract general feature information. The advantage of this algorithm specially with larger datasets like ImageNet is the ability to improvise the speed of the training process as we start with pre-trained weight matrix. In order to further enhance the performance, augmentation techniques are used. We obtained an accuracy rate of 94.91 when the model was trained for 90k images, where the validation set consisted of 10k images and the test set has 57k images with 10 epochs.
Gradient weighted class activation map interprets the intermediate results of a wide range of CNN architectures by using weights and distributions of any desired class flowing into the final convolutional layer to produce localisation maps of the significant regions of the image.
A group of interns will come on board for an eight week duration to work on high impact projects involving deep learning and AI techniques to detect different types of cancers. To apply, please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSez7jSEm_uzyZY75xDw4VQ82Xe-fWPpBCtGrXswMHF4nK4AzA/viewform
This program will help incoming volunteers to train themselves on theoretical and practical aspects of using AI for medical imaging. At the end of the program, volunteers will be able to understand basic techniques and code the same. To participate, please email us at: f1tech.aiwb@gmail.com
We're now having a new program catering to healthcare and development of AI specifically in these regions.
Contributors of 2020 Github Arctic Code Vault Program.
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