IKCC is a proud partner of the COMFORT Project – COMputational Models FOR patienT stratification in urologic cancers – Creating robust and trustworthy multimodal AI for health care.
COMFORT is a four-year project to enhance cancer care through data-driven decision support systems funded by the European Commission Horizon Europe.
Current clinical methods inadequately leverage unstructured data for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer (PCa) and kidney cancer (KC), resulting in suboptimal patient management and elevated costs. The effectiveness of diagnostics and therapeutics relies on a fusion of multimodal information. However, the deficiency of data access and the absence of collaborative validation between clinicians and computer scientists hinder the advancement of multimodal models. In this context, the EU-funded COMFORT project will develop commercially viable, data-driven, multimodal decision support systems. These systems seek to enhance clinical prognostication, patient stratification, and personalised therapy. It will also evaluate the confidence that healthcare professionals and patients place in such AI tools.
By providing improved, personalised diagnosis and prognosis assessment, the multimodal models will ultimately contribute to better patient outcomes and quality of life. The models developed in this study can be used as basis for any use case where imaging and electronic medical records are relevant, as they are easily adaptable and can help combat different types of cancer.
IKCC’s role in the consortium focuses on promoting cancer patients’ needs, contributing to the design of patient-friendly interfaces, and disseminating information on the results of the COMFORT project.
For further information on the project visit:
https://comfort-ai.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101079894
https://eurice.eu/projects/comfort