DATICAN Hackathon 2026

Data Science and Medical Image Analysis for Improved Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria (DATICAN) is a consortium of medical experts and computer scientists from the University of Chicago, Lagos State University, University of Ibadan and Redeemer’s University. The focus of DATICAN is to build capacity in data science and medical image analysis with application in medical image analysis. DATICAN is funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) as part of UE5 grant scheme called DS-I Africa.

Dr Maria del C Valdés Hernández provided an online lecture on, "Machine Learning in Structural Brain Image Analysis - examples of applications" to a range of individuals comprising of experts in data science, medical practitioners, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and other allied fields.