Who can bridge the death gap after the first wave of AI systems?

I recently visited a European event with a fellow researcher to investigate the interest in our new project proposal. Our research group has worked for the better part of a decade on the automated detection of esophageal cancer, a disease that’s on the rise in the Western world and select parts of Asia.

The development of first-generation AI techniques to detect the occurrence of cancerous tissue has been quite successful. Over the past years, a broad set of European hospitals collected videos and pictures of their patients. The data were brought together at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, with which my group has collaborated to develop the desired AI technology.