Owkin Teams up with NVIDIA and King’s College London to Deliver AI to Hospitals While Protecting Patient Data With Federated Learning
PARIS and NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Owkin, which is developing Federated Learning and AI technologies to advance medical research, announces it is teaming up with technology company NVIDIA and King’s College London (KCL) to deliver Federated Learning in the healthcare and life sciences sector. The King’s College London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare (AI4VBH) is one of the world’s most ambitious Federated Learning projects in healthcare. It will initially connect four of London’s premier teaching hospitals before expanding throughout the UK, and will offer AI services to accelerate research and improve clinical practice in a wide range of therapeutic areas, including cancer, heart failure and neurodegenerative disease.