Research & Labs

Learning by Building

This section documents technical investigations, research notes, prototypes and engineering laboratories. Not everything here is a commercial product — some projects exist purely to understand the science and engineering more deeply.

Medical Imaging Lab

  • DICOM networking
  • CT reconstruction
  • ultrasound imaging
  • image processing
  • Hounsfield Units
  • window and level
  • PACS architecture
  • modality workflows
  • medical image formats
  • reconstruction algorithms

Clinical AI Lab

  • CAD systems
  • segmentation
  • classification
  • object detection
  • explainable AI
  • dataset shift
  • model calibration
  • uncertainty
  • medical AI validation
  • multimodal clinical systems

Speech & Language AI Lab

  • Whisper
  • medical speech recognition
  • speaker diarization
  • LLM fine-tuning
  • RAG
  • QLoRA
  • quantization
  • local inference
  • GPU optimisation

Biomedical Systems Lab

  • ESP32
  • Arduino
  • sensors
  • MQTT
  • physiological signals
  • IoT
  • medical instrumentation
  • robotics

Agricultural Intelligence Lab

  • satellite imagery
  • vegetation indices
  • disease detection
  • yield prediction
  • model fusion
  • edge AI
  • precision agriculture

Open Questions

Current Research Questions

  1. 01

    How well do medical AI models trained elsewhere generalise to African populations?

  2. 02

    What medical imaging infrastructure architecture makes sense for low-resource environments?

  3. 03

    How can useful AI systems run on limited GPU hardware?

  4. 04

    How can radiology workflows be improved using AI without removing clinicians from the decision loop?

  5. 05

    How should African healthcare datasets be governed, anonymised and shared responsibly?

  6. 06

    What combination of cloud, edge and on-premise computing best suits healthcare environments with inconsistent connectivity?

Related writing lives in Engineering Writing. Product context for Zyemed Labs is in the Zyemed case study.