E199 Felix Faber, Founder and CEO at MindPeak

Today's guest is Felix Faber, Founder and CEO at MindPeak GmbH in Hamburg. Founded in 2018, MindPeak's mission is to make microscopical analysis accessible for everyone in the world. They automate visual processes in the clinical laboratory with Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. The demand for medical image analysis is growing rapidly but the number of cancer experts remains the same - this results in growing workloads per specialist.

MindPeak help cancer experts meet this challenge. They build automation tools for visual diagnosis using state-of-the-art AI and deep learning. Their tools assist cancer experts in providing reliable and reproducible diagnoses. This frees specialists from tedious, repetitive tasks such as quantification of cells or biomarkers and allows them to focus on tasks where their human expertise is indispensable.

In the episode, Felix will discuss:

The exciting work he is doing with Mindpeak,

Applying AI within pathology,

How AI and automation is making people’s lives easier in the industry,

Challenges they are solving using data science,

How Covid-19 has transformed digitalisation in Healthcare &

What’s in store for the future at MindPeak