GE Healthcare required the fast performance of a DynamoDB-compatible database, but to run on-premises to ensure patient data remained confidential. Find out how they employed Scylla's DynamoDB-compatible API to provide precision medical diagnoses in their Edison AI solution.

1. Enabling Precision
Health with Edison AI
Sandeep Lakshmipathy
GEHealthcare.com

2. Sandeep Lakshmipathy
Director of Engineering, Edison AI
GE Healthcare
With close to 2 decades in the software industry, and the last 7 years in the Healthcare domain,
Sandeep has played diverse roles in Technology & Product Management space. Sandeep is
currently the Director of Software for Edison AI Platform at GE Healthcare in the John F Welch
Technology Center in Bengaluru, India. Sandeep leads several initiatives to accelerate AI product
development across the healthcare products.
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3. 3
40% shortage
in practicing obstetrics/
gynecology doctors
2.1 nurse/midwife
.8 doctor
.6 obstetrics/gynecology
doctor
Per 1,000 people in India
Prevalence Stats: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.NUMW.P3
Occurrence of CNS: Occurance of CNS abnormalities: http://www.ijmr.org.in/temp/IndianJMedRes1454471-5575188_152911.pdf
Shortage of practicing obstetrics/gynecology doctors: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/paediatrics-to-gynae-where-are-the-surgeons-physicians/
Ultrasound is highly user
dependent, repetitious, and
manual.
Clinical training is often
neglected
~130M babies born
every year
~350K babies born
every day
Healthcare Challenges

4. 4
Healthcare Artificial Intelligence
An infinite AI space
■ Physics
■ Anatomy
■ Function (fMR)
■ Pre/intra/post scan
■ Genomics
■ And more
https://wsrs.org/2018meeting/handouts/allen_ai.pdf

5. 5
TRAININGEST ANNOTATE
DEPLOYMENT
TARGETS
HOSPITAL
PARTNERS
AWS
IAM
AMAZON
COGNITO
AMAZON
CLOUDWATCH
AMAZON
S3
AMAZON
EC2
GE HEALTH
CLOUD
GE HEALTH CLOUD
EDGE
TRAININGEST ANNOTATE
GE HEALTH CLOUD
FEEDBACK
Edison | An Artificial Intelligence
Factory for Everyone
Cloud Platform for GEHC Internal AI Model Development / Deployment
AWS Cloud
We like the Edison AI
Cloud Workbench,
but can we have this
on-prem ?

6. 6
TRAININGEST ANNOTATE
DEPLOYMENT
TARGETS
HOSPITAL
PARTNERS
AWS
IAM
AMAZON
COGNITO
AMAZON
CLOUDWATCH
AMAZON
S3
AMAZON
EC2
GE HEALTH
CLOUD
EDISON HEALTHLINK (On-Prem)
EDGE
TRAININGEST ANNOTATE
On-Prem
FEEDBACK
On-Prem Deployment of Edison AI Workbench for Research Purposes
Scylla Alternator
Edison | An Artificial Intelligence
Factory for Everyone

7. Edison AI Workbench
Multiple Deployment Options
7https://wsrs.org/2018meeting/handouts/allen_ai.pdf
Edison AI Workbench | Cloud
Edison AI Workbench | On-Prem
On Edison Platform Hardware

8. Zeroing in on Scylla Alternator
▪ Porting cloud asset to run on-prem is non-trivial
▪ People expertise & Time to market considerations
▪ Wanted to minimize turn-around time for ISO releases
▪ Keeping DB layer similar across cloud & on-prem was
invaluable for our use-case
▪ API compatibility with DynamoDB was need of the hour
▪ Quick proof-of-concepts helped decision making
▪ Also K8s compatibility accelerated deployment
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9. Support from ScyllaDB Team
Always Available
▪ Developer level interactions
▪ Quick turn-around with
nightly builds for issue fixes
▪ Constant touch-bases from
Technical & Marketing
teams
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Receptivity & Flexibility
▪ Around DynamoDB Streams
▪ Customized licensing for
our needs
▪ Partnering in solution
evolution

10. Having Right Data
Our experience on volume
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Essential, but not sufficient
■ Volume increases performance
■ Volume must be “balanced”
■ Annotation can drive volume
needs
Supporting on-prem AI
Workbench needs allows
access to data that cannot
get onto cloud for variety of
reasons!
Variety prevents brittle
Artificial Intelligence
■ DL models are data driven
■ If only one data source is used, the
model is likely “brittle” and not
generalizable
■ Diversity = geo, depart, vendor,
socio/eco, and more

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GEHealthcare.com
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GE Healthcare reserves the right to make changes in specifications and features shown herein, or discontinue the product described at any time without notice or obligation. Contact your GE Healthcare
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Conclusion
Partnerships will be key to AI Revolution

12. Thank You
@sandeepl
sandeep.lakshmipathy@ge.com
Sandeep Lakshmipathy