Oslo University Hospital to join the European Federation for Cancer Images (EUCAIM)

Press release from EUCAIM - OUH co-organizers Atle Bjørnerud and Kyrre E. Emblem:

We are excited to be formally part of the European Federation for Cancer Images (EUCAIM) consortium. Oslo University Hospital was introduced as a new open call partner at a meeting in Brussels on the 6th Feb where the European Commission, together with the European Society of Radiology (ESR), and EUCAIM brought together 160 leading experts from policymaking, research, healthcare, and industry to explore how the European Cancer Imaging Initiative harnesses health data and Artificial Intelligence to advance cancer detection and treatment.  

The European Cancer Imaging Initiative is a core element of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and implemented by EUCAIM through the development of Cancer Image Europe, a pan-European federated infrastructure for cancer images. Two years into the project, the infrastructure has been set up and will provide secure access to unprecedented volume of high quality, standardised cancer imaging datasets, thus unlocking the potential of AI-driven solutions for earlier and more precise cancer detection, improved treatment planning and enhanced patient outcomes. The event reviewed the mid-term achievements, discussed next steps, sustainability and stakeholder engagement and was placed in the context of the European AI Act and the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulations.

At the meeting, Atle Bjørnerud presented on behalf of OUH how we plan to contribute to the EUCAIM consortium by providing brain tumour MRI data and our NeoMedSys.io platform for data annotation and AI model deployment. We look forward to contributing to this important initiative. The OUH activities in EUCAIM will co-organized by research group leaders Kyrre E Emblem (MRI Research & Technology) and Atle Bjørnerud (Computational Radiology & Artificial Intelligence), at the department of Physics and Computational Radiology, Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

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