University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands has launched its Imagine Open Innovation Lab.
The lab is backed by €54 million in funding from the Dutch Research Council and a diverse group of public and private partners, including Philips, Elekta, and top academic hospitals. The lab will bring together AI, advanced medical imaging, and minimally invasive treatments to offer patients faster access to cutting-edge therapies, Philips said, in a news release.
The lab will feature the following:
Cross-sector collaboration between academic institutions, hospitals, medtech companies, and AI developers
An open lab model embedded in a clinical setting to fast-track translation from research to patient care
Proven success with innovations like MR-LINAC, which reduces prostate cancer treatments from 20 sessions to as few as five
![A normal mammogram confirmed by three-year radiologic follow-up illustrates reader-marked regions of interest (ROIs) during (A) unaided (round 1) and (B) artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted (round 2) reading. Each colored dot represents an ROI for recall by a human reader. Readers could mark more than one ROI per case, represented by multiple dots of the same color. During AI-assisted reading, the AI system displayed three visible prompts: two with suspicion of malignancy scores of 35% (left mediolateral oblique [L MLO] and craniocaudal [L CC]) and one with a suspicion of malignancy score of 10% (right craniocaudal [R CC]), shown as polygonal overlays. Without AI, six of 10 readers (60%) marked a false-positive ROI. With AI assistance, this fell to two of 10 (20%). R MLO = right mediolateral oblique.](https://img.auntminnieeurope.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-radiology-mammogram-ai-auto-bias.H0bYO8QlWs.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
