The first step Waya.ai is taking on its journey to fix healthcare is easy, accurate and available diagnosis.

The earlier you catch cancer the better chance you have for a cure.

Today Waya.ai is announcing a semester long partnership with UIUC’s special interest group on artificial intelligence (SIGAI) to build upon the work Waya.ai has done in skin cancer diagnosis:

Waya.ai will open source the core components of its skin cancer diagnosis software and the work we do over the next few months will live here:

Project goals

Surpass dermatologist level accuracy in our software’s diagnosis of skin lesions Release a free and open source product by the end of the Spring 2017 semester that helps a lot of people

Project details

Our current approach to skin cancer diagnosis uses deep learning to classify images as either benign or malignant. Our R&D has been mostly based around convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks (GANs).

Experience in areas other than machine learning/deep learning are also needed for this project to be successful. Specifically:

Graphics and game engines (hint: the simulator part of SimGANs)

Infrastructure Engineering

Mathematics and Statistics

Software Engineering

If you have experience in any of the above fields please consider joining this effort! Lack of experience can be more than made up for with hard work and passion — you are still welcome to join!

Administrative stuff

Communication for the project will happen in Slack (you must have an illinois.edu email address or request an invite to join):

We will meet weekly at SIGAI’s project meetings: Sundays 1–2pm, Siebel room 1109. http://sigai.ml/

I’ll also hold office hours at various times and locations (announced on the fly in Slack channel) over the course of the week. This will be a good opportunity to coordinate with me, get help, or just do some work together.

Getting involved

Join the Slack group and introduce yourself Show up to SIGAI’s Sunday project meetings Show up to my office hours

Full disclosure

This project will be completely open source and Waya.ai does not intend to profit directly from it. Waya.ai is doing this in hopes that:

The release of this project will help people This project will lead to some of our early hires

While not directly profiting from this project, Waya.ai does see it as an opportunity to build credibility in the healthcare field as well as strengthen our brand.