Design and project support
Design a health artificial intelligence project
QSTOM-IT helps turn a business, scientific or clinical question into a structured, testable and documented AI project. Our principle is simple: design how performance will be demonstrated from the outset.
Principle
Build the model and its evidence protocol at the same time
A prototype can look technically impressive while remaining difficult to evaluate properly. We work from the start on the target population, data, prediction target, metrics and validation conditions.
Scope
Define the use case, user, supported decision and consequences of error.
Qualify the data
Inventory sources, cohorts, identifiers, temporality, missingness and access constraints.
Define the protocol
Specify hypotheses, target, training and test sets, metrics and comparators.
Prototype
Build a reproducible pipeline and a model appropriate to the maturity of the project.
Evaluate
Analyse errors, subpopulations, generalisation limits and sensitivity to real-world conditions.
Document
Produce the material required for decision making, transfer or the next project stage.
Deliverables
Possible deliverables
- Scoping note and success criteria
- Data and risk map
- Experimental protocol
- Prototype or proof of concept
- Reproducible pipeline
- Evaluation report
- Technical and methodological documentation
- Roadmap for the next stage
PRISM dimensions can be used during design to avoid discovering metric, cohort, robustness or reproducibility problems too late.
When QSTOM-IT has built or remediated a project, we do not present a later review as independent due diligence. Roles and potential conflicts of interest are stated before each engagement.
FAQ
Project support FAQ
Do you only work on medical devices?+
No. We can support research projects, internal tools, data systems, document assistants or solutions that are not classified as medical devices.
Can you develop the full product?+
We can scope, prototype and develop targeted components. For large-scale industrialisation, we can work with the client's team or specialised partners.
Do you work with clinicians?+
When the use case requires it, complementary clinical or scientific expertise can be brought in for a clearly defined question.
QSTOM-IT
Do you have an idea, data or an incomplete prototype?
Tell us the problem to solve and the current level of maturity. We will first determine what should be verified before more development is committed.