India, Oct. 15 -- Aarthi Scans & Labs and the Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH) at Ashoka University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a research collaboration on artificial intelligence in medical imaging.

Most AI tools used in radiology today are built on data from Western populations and are rarely tested on Indian patients, scanners and clinical workflows. The collaboration aims to close this gap by developing and validating AI models on Indian data, in Indian clinical settings.

Together, the two institutions will build a secure data pipeline using de-identified imaging data, in line with ethics approvals and Indian data protection regulations. This data will be used to rigorously benchmark and validate radiol...