On Wednesday, June 7, the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging hosted a delegation of German political leaders and academics from the state of Schleswig-Holstein for the official launch of AI FLEX, a federated learning exchange project with great promise for advancing biomedical imaging and improving patient care. AI FLEX will begin with a large repository of orthopedic radiographs archived at UCSF, training a model to find biomarkers that predict which patients are at risk of suffering hip fractures based on indicators in previous scans.
Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, and Dr. Claus-C. Glüer, research collaborators since the 1990s, are the principal investigators for AI FLEX. Dr. Majumdar is a UCSF faculty member. Dr. Glüer is a faculty member at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) and the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), the…
