![]() How are these datasets different and more valuable?Īs per Ziad Obermeyer, the physician and Machine Learning scientist who launched Nightingale Open Science, what sets these datasets apart from the rest is the fact they are not labeled with the doctor’s opinion but with what actually happened to the patient.įor example, cardiac arrest ECG datasets will not be labeled with whether cardiologists detected something wrong with the patient but whether the patient eventually suffered a cardiac arrest. This gives researchers the ability to learn from the ground truth, which is the actual patient outcomes. The project has already started garnering attention from tech giants like Google and hundreds of researchers from institutions like MIT, Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Problems with the current landscape of the medical data The current medical data is often siloed. Some part of carefully examined, high-quality data is primarily owned by medical institutions that reserve access to this data to their own researchers. The other part is owned by big tech companies that can spend large amounts to access the data. But what about other people and enterprises that cannot pay large sums to access medical data? They end up wasting several days and even months negotiating for access to data. How does Nightingale’s Open Science make things easier for researchers? They have to deal with several challenges in the middle, including – getting themselves into the hospital system to access the data and wasting several months in the process. Nightingale Open Science is an endeavor to help researchers, startups, and anyone who has to work extremely hard to access high-quality medical data. It shares de-identified clinical datasets with the researchers, absolutely free of cost. ![]() How does Nightingale fill gaps in existing medical datasets? It also accelerates Artificial Intelligence in the field of health sciences by collecting, vetting, and cleaning the data, making it exceptionally high-quality. It does so via linkages, which is done before the de-identification of data. Nightingale’s partner health institutions give it access to raw patient data.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |