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Contribute your MRI Data for BraTS-Africa 2024
Dear Esteemed Researcher, We are delighted to contact you regarding an exciting opportunity to join us in the BraTS-Africa 2024 research collaboration. This is a part of our continuous effort to promote brain imaging research in Africa and improve the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders in the region. BraTS-Africa is the first Brain Tumour…
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MAI Lab Scientist wins International Prize for Brain Tumour Segmentation
Maruf Adewole, the Lead Physicist and Lab Manager at the Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Lagos, Nigeria, has won the International Trainee Prize at the 5th Annual Neuro Open Science in Action Symposium 2023. The prize recognizes his innovative work on creating a brain tumour imaging dataset from sub-Saharan Africa for machine learning applications. Adewole’s…
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SPARK Academy: Applications now open
Sprint AI Training for African Medical Imaging Knowledge Translation (SPARK) is committed to empowering African data science communities and imaging researchers to develop deployable imaging diagnostic tools that can assist clinicians to provide high-value care and bridge the gap in the medical disparity between Africa and the rest of the world. SPARK is one of the…
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RSNA News Feature – AI Network in Africa Seeks to Solve Resource Disparities By Uniting Imaging Stakeholders
https://www.rsna.org/news/2023/february/solving-ai-disparities-in-africa BY EVONNE ACEVEDO on February 16, 2023 In Africa, an infrastructure that utilizes an AI “ecosystem” could help place radiology practices in a central network with other stakeholders and researchers throughout the continent and help close gaps in care for underserved patients. But what if technology can’t get to those populations or doesn’t work…
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The Interdisciplinary Glioma Imaging and Clinical Management Symposium for African Clinicians and Scientists – 1.0
The Consortium for Advancement of MRI Education and Research in Africa (CAMERA) in collaboration Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MAI Lab) is set to host the first free virtual symposium to build capacity in imaging diagnostics in Africa. Schedule: Date: 13th February 2023 Time: 12 noon (Nigerian Time) +1 GMT Zoom Registration link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-2hpj4rGdC0daySyMzhI0_kalo_Is6T
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Call for Resident Annotators
Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MAI Lab) is committed to enabling AI solutions in resource-contained settings. This project aims to introduce cutting-edge research practices in Radiology to Residents while creating the Africa-BraTS dataset. As the pilot project for AfNiA, Africa-BraTS dataset creation involves aggregation, curation and annotation of 300 Glioma cases arising in Sub-Saharan Africa. This…
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MAI LAB HPC and NAS finally arrived
Penultimate Tuesday, MAI LAB took delivery of her Computing infrastructure. The pieces of equipment which have since been ordered from OEM include fast processing Graphics Processing Units (GPU) and Network Attached Storage (NAS). With this latest acquisition, the Lab is set to commence its mandate of aggregating and processing 300 Glioma cases from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Lacuna Fund Announce Awards for Health Datasets
The Lacuna Fund has announced the first round of awards to create datasets in the health domain. The teams selected for funding are unlocking the power of machine learning across the globe, from the rural provinces of Nepal to the neighborhoods of Chicago, USA. This funding and the project teams’ work will create, augment, and…