Gabor Fichtinger and his team have been awarded, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, a third grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in support of their ongoing efforts in the theme of AI in Global Health.
The project: 3D Slicer for African Scientists: Enabling AI for Health received $400,000 US grant by the Wellcome Trust through CZI
3D Slicer is a free open-source software platform for medical imaging data analysis, 3D visualization, and image-guided therapy used in clinical research, education and commercial products worldwide, through nearly seven million downloads from all continents, including even Antarctica. However, the platform is only available in English.
“This is part of a larger program, our third grant from CZI for global health efforts,” Dr. Fichtinger, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Computer-Integrated Surgery, explains. “The first one was for Africa, second for Latin America, and this one for Africa again. Queen’s is co-leading; we are running these grants through Harvard University with Dr. Sonia Pujol. Our larger mission is to provide free-source software resources for the global community.”
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