CLIC-BAIT

Clinical Imaging Consortium for Broader Application of AI Technology
Press Release April 16 2026

About the CLIC-BAIT Project

The CLIC BAIT is an expansion and extension of the CLIC project.

The CLIC BAIT Project will develop and commercialise a solution that supports the use of clinical images from Danish regions for the development, test, certification, deployment, commercialisation, validation and monitoring of image based AI solutions.

Achitecture
The CLIC BAIT Solution architecture will be modular based. This will ensure that the platform can be adapted and configured to different IT landscapes thus reducing a barrier of entry identified in the project and thus increasing the commercial potential of the platform.
The Solution
The CLIC BAIT Solution can accelerate the adoption of clinical AI in the health care system and provide the foundation for a national ecosystem where health care professionals and private companies can develop, test and validate innovative AI solutions in close collaboration.
National Perspective
Leading technology providers will work with a wide range of clinical departments from regions across Denmark to ensure that the platform becomes a globally competitive platform with unique functionality and usability that meet identified unmet needs.

Benefits to patients

CLIC BAIT facilitates increased usage of image based AI solutions that can enhance the quality and precision of diagnostics for the patients. Furthermore with the use of decision support the clinical processes and the patient journey can be optimized and valuable highly skilled professionals can be released to more complex tasks. AI solutions thus can help to increase the efficiency in health care provision.

Benefits to health care system

There are approximately 600 radiologists in Denmark. If the workload of radiologists dedicated to processing clinical images can be reduced by five hours every week this would be the equivalent of gaining 71 extra full-time radiologists in Denmark.

What is image based AI?

Using artificial intelligens for analyzing image data, can bring us from vast amounts of data to valid conclusions faster than ever before. To get started, the data needs to be collected and annotated, and an AI model needs to be set up, trained and deployed.
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Illustration explaining AI

Objectives for the project

Expands the clinical focus from radiology to all medical specialities where clinical images play a major role in the clinical workflow.
On the basis of the existing CLIC Platform build the CLIC BAIT Solution that can support the entire clinical AI life cycle from development, test, validation, deployment and monitoring of AI solutions by integrating with the open source MONAI DEPLOY platform.
Ensures the platform will meet regulatory requirements for both commercial AI solutions and for locally developed AI solutions that will be used both locally within Region Ø and scaled outside of the local context.
Increases the geographical reach by inviting use cases from the different regions in Denmark.
Adapts the architecture to a modular based CLIC BAIT Solution in order to secure a better fit with the architecture of potential clients.
Enables the sharing of data across regions through a federated learning architecture.
Deepens the public institutional ownership of using AI in the health care system.

Aim for the CLIC BAIT Project

The CLIC BAIT Project will develop, deploy and commercialise a modular solution for AI development that can handle health and image data securely and that will support the entire value chain for clinical AI. 

The specific aims are: 
1. Establish functional requirements, technical specifications and test specifications based on input from clinical specialties where use of clinical images are a central part of the workflow.

2. Develop and deploy a functional CLIC BAIT Platform able to support the development, test, retraining, validation and monitoring of image based AI solutions consisting of 5 elements:
a. Extraction and anonymisation of clinical images
b. Extraction of other health data and integration with clinical images
c. Development, test, retraining, validation, deployment and monitoring of AI solutions based on the combined data
d. Export of test reports and data for validation and monitoring purposes and for regulatory requirements
e. A governance system to ensure compliance with GDPR, EU AI Act and local regulations for image based AI solutions

3. Secure access to relevant health data, required for the use cases and for the realisation of the full commercial potential of the platform. 

4. Perform systems test and validate the CLIC BAIT Solution on at least 5 use cases that cover different clinical specialities and hospital regions in Denmark.

5. Develop functionality that enables national and international collaboration on development, test, validation and deployment of clinical image based AI solutions.

6. Elaborate and implement a communication plan, which include the organisation of at least two seminars which focus on responsible AI in the clinic based on the We Are Not Waiting concept developed by DataFair and includes scientific publications where applicable for both the CLIC BAIT Solution and the individual use cases.

7. Coordinate with Digital Health Denmark to ensure central position of platform in national health data infrastructure.

8. Propose revision of legislation and regulation if necessary to ensure use of images and health data to support the development and use of clinical AI.

9. Elaborate and execute business plan for commercialisation of the CLIC BAIT solution and secure first commercial contract during the project period.

Project Partners

The Region of Eastern Denmark
Project administrator and leads the work defining needs and specifications, development and deployment, and data access and validation.
DEPICT
Defines functional needs for the CLIC BAIT Solution in Region Ø and helps integrate MONAI Deploy elements. Identifying the use cases, secure data access, and support the testing and validation of the use cases.
Radiology AI Test Center
Leads the clinical role by identifying use cases across specializations and regions, and securing access to data. Support the testing and validation of the CLIC BAIT solution.
2021.ai
Provides regulatory requirements input and leverages the GRACE AI governance platform functionality. Development of the platform and build a local test version for commercial efforts.
DataFair
Overall project management and the commercialisation of the CLIC BAIT solution, including developing the business plan and contribute to defining regulatory requirements and specifications for interregional collaboration.

Contact

PROJECT MANAGER
Troels Bierman Mortensen
tbm@datafair.org+45 31 55 10 15

DataFair ApS