Digitization of medical records and use of AI

Autopsy and medical records are crucial to a brain bank, since they provide the clinical and pathological context required to interpret biological specimens.

They make it possible to link cerebral anomalies to clinical symptoms, to establish correlations between macroscopic observations and molecular analyses, and to consider environmental and genetic risk factors. By offering an integrated view of biology and the clinical context, they facilitate advances in translational research and personalised medicine.

Historically, clinical observations were recorded in paper medical records. Today, this information is stored in electronic medical records, making it easier to access and preserve data, and to integrate modern research technologies. The purpose of this module is to digitise the medical archives and to use AI tools such as optical character recognition (OCR) and handwritten text recognition (HTR) to create structured digital databases that can be used for research. This will make it possible to extract data quickly and effectively from the digitized records.