CHU Dijon has recruited a doctor specializing in artificial intelligence

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Dr Davide Callegarin indicated doing "IT development at the GCM and IT assistance" in the different laboratories and services of the CHU.

In particular, he developed software using unsupervised machine learning to extract unstructured data from medical reports.

"I started this work at the end of my studies in Trieste" (Italy), he detailed. "Originally, the software made it possible to extract information on lung and breast cancers: the location, the size of the tumors … and to make a 3D map of the lesions."

For the GCM, it continued its development in partnership with the CIAD laboratory (Distributed knowledge and artificial intelligence) of the University of Burgundy.

It now allows "a programmable search and the most generic analysis possible", to be used by all specialties.

It is "loading in the cloud to make it as accessible as possible" and will be available in SaaS (Software as a Service) mode "in a few weeks".

A market study is underway for its marketing, reported Professor Callier.

Dr. Callegarin "is a very rare profile," he said. His double skill "makes work easier". "We don't need to explain the medical side like we would do to a computer scientist. I immediately saw its potential."

"To my knowledge, this is the first AI assistant position in France," he said.

Davide Callegarin started his graduate studies with a year in computer engineering school before turning to medicine. "It may sound weird, but you change when you are young," he noted. "I am passionate about computers. I have been programming since high school and I have never stopped since."

Arrived in France in 2015, he completed his medical biology internship within the hospital-university biology platform (PBHU) of the Dijon CHU. In parallel to his thesis in artificial intelligence in health which he validated in October 2019, he followed a master's degree in bioinformatics at Claude-Bernard Lyon I university.

Asked about his choice to work in a teaching hospital rather than in a private company where his skills are in great demand, Dr. Callegarin highlighted the "very dynamic environment" that surrounds him.

"Professor Callier believed in me, the people at the hospital believed in me," he replied. "It is true that we cannot afford a big company, but everyone is working, we are only at the beginning of the projects. And I do not know what I will find elsewhere."

Patrick Callier is currently developing an AI development project at the CHU. "The idea is to create a laboratory that allows healthcare professionals of all specialists to automate repetitive tasks thanks to AI, and to free up time for tasks with high added value."

At GCM, Davide Callegarin is also working on several "confidential" projects around pathological anatomy, they said without further details.

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