ProCAncer-I - An AI Platform integrating imaging data and models, supporting precision care through prostate cancer's continuum (DIT.AD001.136)
Thematic area
Engineering, ICT and technologies for energy and transportation
Project area
Dispositivi e Sistemi ICT (DIT.AD001)Structure responsible for the research project
Institute of information science and technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI)
Other structures collaborating in the research project
Project manager
SARA COLANTONIO
Phone number: +39 050 621 3141
Email: sara.colantonio@isti.cnr.it
Abstract
In Europe, prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most frequent type of cancer in men and the third most lethal. Current clinical practices, often leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of indolent tumors, suffer from lack of precision calling for advanced AI models to go beyond SoA by deciphering non-intuitive, high-level medical image patterns and increase performance in discriminating indolent from aggressive disease, early predicting recurrence and detecting metastases or predicting effectiveness of therapies. To date efforts are fragmented, based on single-institution, size-limited and vendor-specific datasets while available PCa public datasets (e.g. US TCIA) are only few hundred cases making model generalizability impossible. The ProCAncer-I project brings together 20 partners, including PCa centers of reference, world leaders in AI and innovative SMEs, with recognized expertise in their respective domains, with the objective to design, develop and sustain a cloud based, secure European Image Infrastructure with tools and services for data handling.
Start date of activity
01/10/2020
Keywords
prostate cancer, repository, open image space, annotated and under donorship images, quality of image providers, cloud infrastructure, tools to build AI applications, advanced AI techniques
Last update: 07/07/2025