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Cleaning and annotating external clinical datasets

TEF-Health Service
Consulting Virtual
Pricing/Discount Options: Call #2

Service Description

OVERVIEW This service provides expert cleaning, curation, and annotation of clinical datasets supplied by external organizations. Multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professionals and data specialists review and enhance the quality, consistency, and usability of the data to ensure they are suitable for AI development, validation, and clinical research.

HOW CAN THE SERVICE HELP YOU ? Clinical datasets collected from different sources often contain missing values, inconsistencies, heterogeneous formats, or insufficient clinical labelling, limiting their use for AI applications. This service improves data quality through expert cleaning and annotation, making datasets more reliable for machine learning, validation studies, and clinical research. Clinical experts ensure that annotations are medically relevant, while data specialists optimize the dataset structure to facilitate efficient analysis and AI model development.

HOW WILL THE SERVICE BE DELIVERED ? The service starts with an assessment of the external dataset to evaluate its structure, quality, completeness, and intended use. Based on the customer's objectives, clinical and technical experts perform data cleaning, quality control, clinical annotation, and, when requested, standardization and documentation. The processed dataset is then delivered through secure data transfer mechanisms (using the secure FileCap software solution) together with documentation describing the performed processing and annotation activities.

PROVIDER DESCRIPTION HUmani CHU Charleroi-Chimay is a hospital network composed of five general and specialized hospitals and 8 polyclinics offering healthcare services in more than fifty medical and surgical specialties. Located in Belgium, at the heart of Europe, we are strongly committed to clinical research with the support of a dedicated Clinical Research Unit offering Clinical Research Organization (CRO)-like services.

TECHNICAL DETAILS The service includes: • Assessment of dataset quality and completeness. • Identification and correction of inconsistencies, duplicates, and missing or erroneous data where feasible. • Clinical annotation and labelling performed by qualified healthcare professionals. • Data curation to improve consistency, traceability, and usability. • Standardization of clinical terminology and coding systems where applicable. • Optional mapping to interoperability standards such as OMOP CDM or HL7 FHIR. • Preparation of datasets suitable for AI training, validation, clinical research, or secondary data analysis. • Documentation of data processing and annotation methodologies.

SERVICE CUSTOMIZATION The service can be tailored according to the characteristics of the dataset based on customer’s needs: • the scope of the data cleaning activities; • the type and level of clinical annotation required; • the clinical domains and variables of interest; • the desired interoperability standard or output format; • specific quality control or documentation requirements. The extent of the service depends on the quality and structure of the source dataset, the requested annotation complexity, internal policies and requirements, regulatory approvals, and legal constraints.

Offerings: Data Processing (curation, preprocessing & standardization, mining, visualization, anonymization, FAIR, etc.) Expert Medical Opinion
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Provider & Contact

Provider Country Belgium
Organisation Website https://www.humani.be/humani/projets-ia/
Billing: per hour
Full Price 63–265 EUR
Reduced Price 48–202 EUR
Pricing Detail

This price is based on the less qualified human resource who may perform the service. Additional costs of 0.15€-0.45€/data may also be incurred. The final price will be determined in the contract between the service provider and the applicant.​

Operational Details

Service Inputs Dataset/Documentation about the data collection procedure.
Service Outputs Annotated and curated external datasets & recommendations.
Service Standards
  • International guidance and norms (Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP), ISO14155, etc.), and Belgium national laws and royal decrees (loi du 7 mai 2004 relative aux expérmentation sur les êtres humains, loi du 22 décembre 2020 sur les dispositifs médicaux, AR 18-05-2021 relatif aux investigations cliniques de dispositifs médicaux, etc.)
  • Where applicable: EU regulations (AI Act, EU regulations 2017/745-746 and 2020/561 on medical devices (MDR), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), etc)