Merck KGaA Partners With Startup for Image Tagging Software
- Improving speed, accuracy of labels key step for AI in science
- Merck sees potential uses in its health, chemical businesses
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Merck KGaA, the German pharmaceutical and chemicals company, is teaming up with a London-based startup called V7 to create software that scientists can use to tag images for future use in training artificial intelligence software.
Many common forms of machine learning require large sets of labeled data to build expertise. But tagging objects in specialized scientific imagery or videos is time-consuming and often involves painstaking work by skilled professionals, such as radiologists outlining the boundaries of tumors in medical imagery or climate scientists identifying forests in satellite images.