MIDAS: a technology-enabled hub-and-spoke system for the collection and dissemination of high-quality medical datasets in India.
Journal:
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date:
Jul 6, 2025
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The need for better AI models fuels the demand for larger and larger high-quality datasets with significant diversity. Over the years, many medical imaging datasets have been published globally, but existing datasets do not contain enough samples from the population of the Indian subcontinent, leading to subpar performance of developed AI models when deployed in India. The Medical Imaging and Information Datasets (MIDAS) India initiative was launched to address this by developing standards, protocols, and policies for gathering medical imaging data nationwide.
