24 Heures | Switzerland wants to build a safe for data [In French]

“DEAPSnow”, a project by the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support avalanche forecasters in creating the avalanche bulletin. This product provides essential information about the prevailing snow and avalanche conditions in the Swiss Alps and the Jura.

Optoacoustic imaging is a new, real-time feedback and non-invasive imaging tool with increasing application in clinical and pre-clinical settings. The DLBIRHOUI project tackles some of the major challenges in optoacoustic imaging to facilitate faster adoption of this technology for clinical use.

Another office for the Swiss Data Science Center will be established at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. To this end, the ETH Board has approved an increase of five million Swiss francs in the budget of the strategic focus area Data Science. The main aim of this expansion is to help improve the evaluation and processing of the growing amounts of data from large and complex research infrastructures, sensor networks, and databases at PSI and the other three federal research institutes, Empa, WSL, and Eawag. The resources and expertise will be available to all institutes in the ETH Domain.

It is vital to design services and analytics that enable individual privacy protection and self-determination over their data, in such a way that enhances data synergy and empower weaker parties to access and consume data in a fair and responsible way.

PSI, ETH Zurich, and the SDSC are jointly working on automatically analysing such three-dimensional images to ease the burden of the clinicians and pathologists in identifying healthy tissue from sick ones.