ASCAPE: An open AI ecosystem to support the quality of life of cancer patients

TL;DR

ASCAPE is an open AI platform designed to enhance the quality of life for cancer patients by enabling healthcare providers to locally process private medical data and share insights securely.

Contribution

This paper introduces ASCAPE, a novel open AI ecosystem that facilitates secure local data processing and knowledge sharing among healthcare stakeholders for cancer care.

Findings

Supports local processing of private medical data

Enables sharing of machine learning models securely

Aims to improve quality of life for cancer patients

Abstract

The latest cancer statistics indicate a decrease in cancer-related mortality. However, due to the growing and ageing population, the absolute number of people living with cancer is set to keep increasing. This paper presents ASCAPE, an open AI infrastructure that takes advantage of the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to support cancer patients quality of life (QoL). With ASCAPE health stakeholders (e.g. hospitals) can locally process their private medical data and then share the produced knowledge (ML models) through the open AI infrastructure.