SpotLab has dedicated efforts to bring the project to completion by developing three main areas: a) technology industrialization and deployment; b) clinical studies for performance evaluation; c) go-to-market strategy and business development. SpotLab successfully accomplished the integration and industrialization of its digital health platform. Work included designing and deploying 3D printed hardware along with mobile application software that together made possible the digitalization with ordinary microscopes; a secure platform in the cloud to enable remote image analysis and case management; and the creation of a groundbreaking AI factory for agile creation and fast deployment of custom AI models both in the cloud and in the smartphone (edge-AI) to analyze these same medical images. All the industrialization process has followed the European medical device design and development guidelines and regulations. In order to perform the clinical studies, Spotlab has partnered with multiple international health institutions, in Europe, Africa and Latinamerica. As a result, 3 clinical protocols have been co-developed covering three use cases, tackling a range of diseases from hematology to neglected tropical diseases. During the implementation of these studies, more than 25 health professionals have participated and +3000 samples have been digitalized, +15000 images have been analyzed, a +100000K clinical labels have been created in the images. These studies allowed to validate the functionality, usability and accuracy of digitalization capabilities and to create and understand the benefits of AI capabilities in the referred use cases. SpotLab witnessed the benefits of digitization to increase the diagnostic capacity of the centers involved, proving the impact of human and AI feedback loops with reduction of times in image diagnoses, improving accuracy or reducing interobserver variability. In parallel, Spotlab has performed intensive market research, exhaustive competitors' landscape mapping and refined its business development strategy. With the help of EU coaches and other experts, Spotlab has established a commercial funnel segmenting and targeting key stakeholders ranging from industry and pharmaceutical companies to ministries of health, global health foundations and research centers. Also, a special emphasis has been done on our communication and dissemination strategy, with the publication of two scientific articles and more than 200 activities, positioning SpotLab as an emerging reference and key stakeholder in the field of AI for healthcare.
