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tata-medical-centerIIT Kharagpur and Tata Medical Center set up Comprehensive Digital Archive of Cancer Imaging

Economic Times Healthworld (July 27, 2019)

IIT Kharagpur and Tata Medical Center have set up an open architecture image biobank to aid cancer research in the country. Named CompreHensive Digital ArchiVe of Cancer Imaging (CHAVI) it will address the emerging field of imaging-related research and will be India's first step towards harnessing artificial intelligence and deep learning methods to answer medical questions of importance in the field of image banking.

Once the pilot program is successful, it can be scaled up to a larger set of medical images. Medical imagery can then be combined with AI to enable reach of treatment to more people as well as provide targeted therapy based on individual symptoms. (Read More)