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Tailored Collaborative Annotation Tool for Medical Data: AI- Assisted, Multi-Annotator, Data Stays On-Site

TEF-Health Service
Consulting Virtual
Pricing/Discount Options: Call #2

Service Description

Overview:

High-quality labelled data is the bottleneck of most medical AI projects. Generic annotation tools rarely fit medical data: unusual formats, multi-channel or 3D signals, domain-specific label sets, several experts who disagree, and data that cannot be sent to a cloud service.

How can the service help you?

CETIC delivers an annotation tool adapted to your data and your clinical question, built on Pyplet and SegLab, CETIC's open-source building blocks for interactive image and signal annotation. The tool runs in the browser, with no installation, and connects to a server on your premises.

  • Adapted to your data: readers and viewers for your formats and modalities, pre-processing applied on the fly, label sets and annotation types (contours, masks, boxes, points, time segments, classes) defined with your experts.
  • AI-assisted: foundation models such as SAM propose a mask from a simple box, and your own models can pre-annotate; experts correct instead of drawing from scratch.
  • Collaborative: several annotators with roles (annotator, reviewer, expert), assignment of cases, review and validation workflow, comparison of annotations between experts.
  • Traceable: who annotated what and when, label versions, export to the formats your training pipeline expects.
  • Privacy by design: data stays on your server or on the expert's workstation; authentication and access control are built in.
How will the service be delivered?
    1. Workshop with your experts: data, formats, label set, annotation workflow, roles.
    1. First working version on a sample of your data, typically within 4 to 8 weeks.
    1. Annotation campaign with your experts, with CETIC support and iterations.
    1. Delivery: tested and documented tool, source code, deployment on your infrastructure; optional connection to your training pipeline (see our MLOps service).

Reference: a CETIC annotation tool built on the same blocks is in production at a research centre. Expert annotation went from about 10 minutes to about 1 minute per item, with precise contours instead of boxes, and campaigns grew from dozens to several thousand annotations.

Keywords: on-premise data annotation medical imaging labelling segmentation AI-assisted annotation SAM multi-annotator inter-rater agreement training data data quality
Service categories: Model & Algorithm (Development, Optimization & Evaluation, etc.) Data Processing (curation, preprocessing & standardization, mining, visualization, anonymization, FAIR, etc.) Quality Management Software (Cybersecurity and privacy-protecting enhancements, development, maintenance, deployment, administration, etc.)
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Provider & Contact

Provider Country Belgium
Organisation Website https://www.cetic.be/

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Operational Details

Service Inputs Sample dataset in its native formats, label set and annotation guidelines, annotator roles and workflow, available domain experts, optional pre-annotation models.
Service Outputs Deployed annotation tool with AI assistance and review workflow, annotated dataset exported in the required formats, annotation traceability log, documentation, source code.