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Two radiology residents win a U of T Health Innovation Hub fellowship for AI in radiology

Toronto. Mark Cicero and Alexander Bilbily, then radiology residents, won one of three Student Entrepreneurial Fellowships at the University of Toronto's Health Innovation Hub for "Towards Artificially Intelligent Radiology Systems." It is where 16 Bit started.

Four Health Innovation Hub award winners standing together at the 2016 pitch contest, including Mark Cicero and Alexander Bilbily
Photo: 16 Bit, H2i pitch contest, October 2016

The Health Innovation Hub (H2i) fellowship came with $5,000 and a place in the hub, which supports early-stage health ventures at the University of Toronto. The pitch described automated analysis of medical images, starting with classifying chest X-rays as normal or abnormal.

Cicero and Bilbily incorporated 16 Bit the same year and kept working as radiologists. The company’s first products, a bone age tool that became Physis and an osteoporosis screen that became Rho, both came out of that early work on learning from the images radiology departments already produce.