Medical AI
Foundation Model for Gastroenterology Imaging
SSL pretraining strategy and cloud data pipeline for a ViT foundation model on 5M+ gastrointestinal video frames.
Francesco Vigni, PhD · AI Consultant
I make AI survive contact with the real world.
I've spent my career on the gap between a model that works in a paper and a system that works in the field. From industrial and human-facing robotics to clinical AI imaging.
Who I work with
Hospitals & IRCCS
You're deploying your first clinical-AI system and need it to pass validation, satisfy GDPR and EHDS, and survive procurement, not just demo well.
R&D teams
You're building technical solutions and need experienced support on model performance, MLOps, and the path from prototype to real deployment.
How I help
Three ways to work together, depending on where you are.
01
Pilot
A fixed-scope engagement to prove feasibility before you commit further.
Teams testing whether a clinical-AI idea is worth a larger investment.
02
Support
An ongoing engagement as your embedded technical partner.
Teams building a clinical-AI system that needs senior depth they don't have in-house.
03
Transition
A hand-off engagement that leaves your team self-sufficient.
Teams ready to own a working system and run it without external dependency.
Is this a fit?
We're a good fit if
- You have a clear, expected result in mind, not just "explore AI".
- You're ready to go beyond a proof-of-concept toward something deployable.
Probably not a fit if
- You're looking for a no-code, hands-off solution.
- You expect a production system with no validation phase.
Selected work
Deployment stories: the constraints that mattered and what actually shipped.
Edge AI
Edge AI Occupancy Monitoring System
Real-time people tracking and zone-based automation running on NVIDIA Jetson at the edge.
Robotics
Autonomous Navigation for an Industrial Cleaning Robot
An indoor autonomous navigation stack for a commercial ride-on floor scrubber.
Trust & compliance
How clinical-AI work stays safe, compliant, and accountable.
GDPR & DPA
Patient-data work designed around GDPR and Data Processing Agreements from the start.
EHDS readiness
Data pipelines and governance built to anticipate the European Health Data Space.
Comfortable under NDA
Routine work within NDA boundaries; case studies are anonymized as needed.
Registered engineer
Member of the Ordine degli Ingegneri di Forlì-Cesena, with professional accountability.
Data governance
Anonymization, access control, and reproducibility treated as part of the engineering.
Have a clinical-AI problem worth solving?
A 15-minute call is the fastest way to find out if I can help.
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