Foundation Model for Radiology

Darlington Akogo of MinoHealth AI Labs in Ghana will leverage a multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) to generate accurate and comprehensive medical reports based on the analysis of medical images to reduce the need for manual reports and enhance diagnostic capabilities for radiologists and clinicians. African healthcare systems have excessively high patient-to-doctor ratios and prevalent diseases and severely inadequate numbers of radiologists. They will fine-tune a multimodal LLM applied to radiology and medical imaging using a supervised approach with a labeled dataset of medical images and corresponding reports collected from facilities across Ghana and Africa. The platform will enable interactive conversations with clinicians seeking answers to specific queries or clarifications regarding medical images. They will use metrics and humans to evaluate the model and assess its ability to generate accurate and comprehensive medical reports. They will also conduct field testing with clinicians and individuals from diverse demographics.