ASCAPE: An open AI ecosystem to support the quality of life of cancer patients
This addresses the problem of managing quality of life for cancer patients, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing AI/ML advances in a domain-specific application.
The paper tackles the challenge of supporting cancer patients' quality of life by presenting ASCAPE, an open AI infrastructure that enables health stakeholders to locally process private medical data and share machine learning models, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
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.