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AI-enabled imaging and diagnostics previously thought impossible

In partnership with health organizations globally, we’re harnessing the potential of AI to assist clinicians with diagnostics and make specialized expertise more accessible. Our efforts span the full spectrum of AI development - from pioneering research models that push the boundaries of what's possible, to providing open-weight models that empower developers, and offering readily available cloud solutions that are designed to enhance clinical workflows.

AI-enabled imaging and diagnostics previously thought impossible
Accelerating AI development for medical imaging

Accelerating AI development for medical imaging

Developing AI for health can be challenging because of the extensive data, specialized expertise, and computational power needed to create models for clinical use. That’s why we provide healthcare organizations and developers with cloud solutions and open-weight models. These resources are designed to help accelerate their efforts to develop, adapt, and refine AI for specific applications more efficiently within their unique environments.
  • Google Cloud’s Medical Imaging Suite

    90% of healthcare data consists of images, which are large, complex, and dependent on humans to interpret. Google Cloud’s Medical Imaging Suite helps organizations realize the full potential of AI by accelerating imaging diagnostics with interoperability, enabling increased productivity, and helping improve access to better patient care.

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  • Health AI Developer Foundations

    Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF) is a collection of open-weight models and companion resources to help developers building AI models for healthcare. HAI-DEF includes multimodal open-weight models, like MedGemma and TxGemma, instructional notebooks, and demos. Using HAI-DEF resources, developers can choose to build medical imaging applications, relating to medical imaging, medical text comprehension, bioacoustics or therapeutics development.

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Advancing early cancer detection and treatment

Early and accurate cancer detection can significantly improve patient outcomes. We're developing AI systems to empower clinicians in identifying subtle signs of cancer and potentially reducing treatment planning time, supporting more timely and personalized care.
  • Using AI to improve breast cancer detection

    With Northwestern Medicine, we’ve researched how AI could potentially help with the detection of breast cancer by reducing the time to diagnosis. We’re also working with Imperial College London and three NHS trusts to explore how AI could alleviate the workload pressure of clinical reviewers.

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  • A promising step forward for predicting lung cancer

    Our research, published in Nature Medicine, shows that deep learning may eventually help physicians more accurately screen for lung cancer. To advance this work, we’ve partnered with DeepHealth and Apollo Radiology International to validate our AI systems and bring these models into clinical care.

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  • Exploring AI advancements in radiotherapy planning to improve efficiency

    We are collaborating with Mayo Clinic to study the use of AI to help clinicians plan radiotherapy treatment for cancer. We’ve joined forces to research, train and validate an algorithm to assist physicians with segmenting healthy tissue and organs from tumors to reduce treatment planning time and improve the efficiency of radiotherapy, hopefully allowing clinicians to spend less time planning and more time with their patients.

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Expanding access to critical diagnostics globally

Expanding access to critical diagnostics globally 

Around the world, access to specialized diagnostic expertise can be limited. Our AI research aims to bridge these gaps, developing tools that can help healthcare workers in diverse settings provide high-quality care.
  • Advancing AI systems for tuberculosis (TB) screenings

    AI can help screen TB from chest x-rays, making screenings more accurate and accessible. That’s why we’ve partnered with Apollo Radiology International and Nexus Intelligence to deploy AI-powered screenings across TB endemic countries. These partnerships include commitments to provide millions of no cost screens to help eradicate TB. Our bioacoustics foundation model, HeAR, can also help researchers build AI models that flag early signs of TB through sound.

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  • Making eyesight-saving screenings more accessible

    Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of preventable blindness. Working with partners in India and Thailand, we’ve developed an AI system to help expand DR screenings on a large scale and bring it to millions of patients at no cost.

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  • AI-Assisted Ultrasound for Maternal Health

    Ultrasound is a versatile and increasingly more accessible early disease detection tool. That’s why we’re building AI models to expand access to ultrasound, allowing health care providers with limited to no background in ultrasonography collect clinically useful ultrasound scans.

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Dive deeper into our work

Discover the science behind our innovations. Explore our publications, blog posts, and learn more about specific research.