The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preparing to roll out a new AI  initiative called PRIMED-AI, a program designed to apply AI to precision medicine through imaging, Meritalk reported.

The initiative is aimed at transforming medical imaging and biomedical data analysis, according to Chris Kinsinger, assistant director for catalytic data resources at the NIH Common Fund, “So, we know that there’s a lot of machine learning classifiers for imaging out there — that’s going great, I think the industry is doing a fantastic job there.” 

NIH plans to integrate radiology, pathology, cardiology, and other imaging departments. “We’re really looking at working across imaging departments within the hospital and really do precision medicine with AI models that come out of that,” Kinsinger added.

He further revealed that NIH is investing in AI-ready datasets, funding four projects to build flagship resources for training models. One initiative draws on data from 100,000 patients across 14 ICUs to predict critical events like cardiac arrest and sepsis.