King's College London to deliver healthcare AI model

King's College London (KCL) is partnering up with two companies to deliver an artificial intelligence model in the healthcare and life sciences sector. KCL is joining forces with Owkin, a company that develops AI algorithms for cancer centres and pharmaceutical companies, and American technology company, NVIDIA, to provide Federated Learning, a framework for AI. Federated learning is a machine learning technique that trains an algorithm across multiple decentralised servers holding local data samples, without exchanging their data samples. Owkin aims to demonstrate that the Federating Learning model is safer for patients, and statistically equivalent to the traditional pooled model for analysis. KCL will use Owkin's Federated Learning software and NVIDIA's EGX Intelligent Edge Computing platform to develop research, clinical and operational improvements across a large number of clinical pathways, with cancer, heart failure, dementia and stroke likely areas of early focus.