Building India's Health AI Infrastructure

Building India's National AI Data Infrastructure for Health

MIDAS is a collaborative ecosystem connecting researchers, clinicians, and institutions to advance AI-driven healthcare through ethical data sharing and open-source innovation

Our Vision

To create India's most comprehensive, ethical, and accessible medical AI data ecosystem that accelerates research, improves clinical outcomes, and serves as a model for responsible data governance

Openness

Committed to open-source principles and transparent data sharing for collaborative research advancement

Ethics

Rigorous ethical frameworks ensuring patient privacy, informed consent, and responsible data governance

Collaboration

Building bridges between institutions, researchers, and clinicians for collective innovation

Scalability

Infrastructure designed to grow with India's research needs, from pilot to national scale

Our Mission

MIDAS (Medical Imaging and Data Analytics for Science) is committed to democratizing access to high-quality medical datasets and research tools. We facilitate collaboration across India's premier research institutions to advance AI/ML applications in healthcare while maintaining the highest standards of ethical data governance.

100%

Ethics Compliant

Open Source

Transparent & Accessible

Multi-Institutional

Collaborative Network

Our Journey

From inception to national-scale impact — the milestones shaping India's health AI data infrastructure

2021Completed

Foundation

MoU signed between ICMR and IISc to set up center for health data

2022Completed

Centre for Health Data

"ICMR-IISc Centre for Health Data" was set up at IISc

2023Completed

Partner Network

First set of Hubs and Spokes for Oral Cancer was formed

2024Completed

Platform Launch

National Expert Technical Committee Report was released, Contributor system deployed

2025Completed

First Datasets

High Quality Datasets for Oral Cancer and Meningioma were launched

We Are Here..In Progress

National Scale

MIDAS scales across 13 hospitals for 4 disease verticals. MIDAS enables dataset worth 1 TB+ across multi modalities. TB Hub at ICMR-NIRT launched, MIDAS to scale across new diseases