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Similar-Case Search for Medical Imaging Archives

AI search for medical imaging archives that finds similar cases from a single uploaded scan, so staff no longer depend on developers and database queries to find comparable studies.

Validated conceptMedical imaging company2026

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98.5%
Right case as top result
Measured
87%
Relevant cases in top 10
Measured
68
Patients in test set
Observed

The challenge

The solution

Technology stack

PyTorchVision TransformerPostgreSQL + pgvectorFastAPI

The result

The self-learning model put a case from the right spinal region at the top of the results in 98.5% of searches, against 73.5% for the conventional model. Of the top ten results, close to nine were relevant (86.9%), against half (49.9%) with the conventional approach. On a public medical imaging benchmark of 17,778 images, the same approach reached 99.7% top-1 accuracy.

That is where the business case gets real: an archive that was only reachable through developers becomes searchable for the people who actually work with the images, without labelling the archive first.

Next step

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Similar-Case Search for Medical Imaging Archives Case Study | Laava