Case Study: UC San Diego Health achieves rapid AI imaging deployment in 10 days with Amazon Web Services

UC San Diego Health Uses AWS to Implement Artificial Intelligence Imaging Model in 10 Days

UC San Diego Health, working with Amazon Web Services, needed a way to move an AI pneumonia-detection model from research into a real clinical workflow during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team had already built a machine learning model that analyzed X-ray images and produced a color-coded probability map, but it needed a secure, HIPAA-compliant environment and a fast path to use it in patient care.

Amazon Web Services helped UC San Diego Health implement the model in a clinical setting in just 10 days using AWS services. The solution let X-rays be processed quickly and returned results to support diagnosis, potentially prompting retesting after false negatives and helping assess illness severity and prognosis in infected patients.

UC San Diego Health

Brian Hurt

Resident Physician