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Galicia’s Health Service Tenders Federated AI Tools for Cancer, Eye and Heart Diagnosis

Models train where patient data stays to strengthen privacy protections.

Overview

  • Galicia’s health authority, Sergas, has put out a €250,000 tender to build clinical AI within a shared medical‑image platform called ImageDataSpace.
  • The program targets three uses: automated prostate cancer evaluation, detection of diabetic macular edema, and support for diagnosing ischemic heart disease.
  • Work will run in a federated data space that keeps personal images on local servers while sending algorithms to train on site.
  • Health officials say the tools are meant to help clinicians make faster calls and give patients quicker answers.
  • The models will learn from tens of thousands of images, building on about one million studies already processed by AI in Galicia’s emergency, primary care and breast cancer programs.