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AI Model Forge – Secure Training on Clinical-Grade Data

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Service Description

Who Can Benefit: - MedTech & Digital Health Companies: For developing high-performance AI models on sensitive clinical data without cloud dependency or data sovereignty concerns. - Research Groups: For leveraging state-of-the-art computing infrastructure and ML expertise to accelerate model development. - Startups: For accessing enterprise-grade training infrastructure and clinical AI expertise without heavy upfront investment.

Key Features: - End-to-end ML/DL pipeline development: data preprocessing, feature engineering, model architecture design, training, and hyperparameter optimization - Support in developing RAG Systems and Agentic AI: on-premise infrastructure for deployment and limited fine-tuning. - Secure on-premises computing clusters at the highest data security standards – no cloud computing required - Access to the High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg for large-scale training workloads - Rigorous testing methodology including cross-validation, holdout testing, and subgroup performance analysis - Clinical domain experts from affiliated clinics ensure models are grounded in medical reality and provide valuable feedback for algorithm improvements

Possible Applications: - Digital Biomarker Development (e.g. Cardiology): Training models to detect arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, or heart failure decompensation from wearable ECG or PPG signals. - Biomechanical Movement Classification: Building AI models for automated gait pattern recognition, fall risk scoring, or joint load estimation from inertial sensor data collected in motion labs. - Neurological Disorder Detection: Developing classifiers for tremor subtypes, seizure prediction, or cognitive decline indicators based on neurophysiological signals. - Athletic Performance Optimization: Training models that quantify fatigue, predict overtraining, or recommend personalized load adjustments based on biomechanical and physiological sensor fusion. - Injury Risk Prediction & Rehabilitation Monitoring: Building predictive models that identify musculoskeletal injury risk factors or track recovery trajectories from sensor-based movement assessments. - Sports Science Analytics: Developing AI-driven analysis tools for technique evaluation, energy expenditure estimation, or real-time performance feedback during training sessions. - Predictive Patient Monitoring: Training early-warning models for clinical deterioration, therapy non-response, or adverse events from continuous physiological data streams. - Synthetization and Transfer of AI Model to Edge Device: Re-training and quantizing an ML/DL/AI algorithm, so it can be run on an edge device (e.g. wearable), while optimizing performance (inference accuracy, energy consumption per inference, latency etc.)

Who We Are: The Fraunhofer Insitute for Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS) has established the Center for Sensor Technology and Digital Medicine (CEMDIS) in cooperation with the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) to enhance modern healthcare through innovative sensor technology and digital solutions. This center focuses on integrating innovative medical technologies such as wearables and robotic systems to support medical diagnostics, patient monitoring and evaluating patient-specific therapies by providing digital health solutions für real-life healthcare. Located at the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, it offers unique infrastructures for the development, integration, and validation of novel health technologies, providing companies opportunities for technological advancements. For more information, visit the Fraunhofer IIS website.

Keywords: RAG Data Evaluation Data analysis Machine Learning Agentic AI HPC
Offerings: Expert Medical Opinion Scientific & Medical Communication Clinical Investigation Support (clinical studies & trials, coordination, design, feasibility, documentation, compliance, operations support, etc.) Platform (trusted research environment, authentication federation, etc.) Infrastructure (compute, storage, network, HPC, etc.) Testing Conformity & Compliance Data (transparency, privacy, fairness, accountability, etc.)
TEF-Health Use Case Domain: all
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Provider & Contact

Provider Country Germany
Organisation Website https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/de/ff/sse/health/medical-sensors-and-analytics/analyse-multimodaler-daten.html
Published Email tobias.sebastian.zech@iis.fraunhofer.de

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Operational Details

Service Inputs - Training Dataset (can be collected by Fraunhofer IIS in seperate service) - Clinical Use Case & Intended Use - Performance Targets (can be discussed in the initiation phase of the service provision) - Model Constraints, Baseline / Benchmarks, Training Strategy
Service Outputs - Trained AI Model(s), RAG System, Agentic AI System - Training Pipeline Documentation - Test Results and Quality Report - Analysis of Model Weaknesses and Improvement Recommendations - Model Export Package
Dependencies & Restrictions - Data has to be available or collected via seperate service provision - Computationally demanding tasks have to be outsourced to HPC at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (access agreement required) - Model IP transfer has to be negotiated prior to provision - This service does not include continuous deployment of the algorithm / system
Comments - All computation runs on dedicated internal GPU clusters operated under the highest data security and privacy standards – sensitive medical data never touches public cloud infrastructure. - For computationally intensive workloads (e.g., large foundation model fine-tuning, extensive hyperparameter sweeps), access to the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg HPC cluster provides scalable compute power while maintaining institutional data governance. - The team combines machine learning engineering expertise with deep clinical domain knowledge in cardiology, neurology, and biomechanics – ensuring models are not just technically performant but clinically meaningful. - Testing includes not only aggregate metrics but systematic bias and fairness analyses across demographic subgroups. - Models can be designed for cloud inference, edge deployment (e.g., wearables, mobile devices), or embedded systems depending on the target application.