A medical AI lab that works inside the hospital.

Maitri-Labs is a translational medical AI lab at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Kochi, working with clinicians at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences , a 1,450-bed tertiary hospital and one of the largest private hospitals in Asia. Doctors bring us the problems. We build the tools, on the equipment their department already owns, to make diagnosis faster, more accurate, and cheaper. Alongside that we publish and open-source our research.

MAITRI · Medical AI for Translational Research & Innovation

HOW A PROJECT RUNS

What happens between a clinical question and a published result.

01

A doctor brings the problem

Work starts with a clinician who wants part of their job faster, cheaper, or less subjective. We scope it first: would a working model change any decision?

02

We start before the data does

Collection and annotation at the hospital take months. We build on public data meanwhile, so a model is ready for the first site cases.

03

The dataset grows under the model

Site data first tests what public data taught the model, then joins the training set. It keeps growing with every batch.

04

Doctors review the real outputs

Once accuracy is reasonable, the clinicians who raised the question look at what the model actually produces. What they flag sets the next round of work.

05

We test where models break

Our clinical data comes from one hospital. Before claiming a model generalises, we run it on other centres and other scanners.

Trust & Governance

The part medical AI can't skip.

01Multi-reader
Validated against expert consensus
Models are scored against the agreement of several expert readers, so the target is the standard of care across a department.
02Full picture
Failure modes exposed
Headline metrics hide the cases a model gets wrong. We report where performance falls off by subgroup, image quality, and difficulty, alongside the aggregate numbers.
03Privacy-first
Data minimisation and de-identification
We collect only the data a specific question needs, and nothing beyond it. Data is de-identified at source, with sharing terms written down before work starts.
04IRB-aligned
Ethics before code
Every study clears the ethics and institutional review requirements of the partner site before a single model is trained.
SUPPORTED BY

The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

The foundation funds AI built for public benefit worldwide. Their support is both a grant and a vote of confidence in where this work is headed.