Healthcare

Healthcare Algorithm Design

Healthcare Algorithm Design is the discipline of building AI systems that think with clinical precision. Healthcare data is vast, messy, multimodal, and governed by strict privacy and regulatory expectations. Building algorithms that operate safely and meaningfully in this environment requires far more than technical skill—it requires domain fluency, statistical rigor, and engineered reliability.

Theta Tech designs custom healthcare algorithms that power clinical decision support, predictive analytics, risk scoring, imaging workflows, and large-scale biomedical data processing. From structured EHR fields to free-text notes, from physiological signals to complex imaging studies, we create AI systems that enhance care rather than complicate it.

Understanding the Concept

Healthcare algorithms sit at the intersection of biomedical insight and computational architecture. They must be built around clinical workflows, data constraints, regulatory considerations, and the unique statistical properties of medical datasets.

Our expertise spans classical machine learning, modern deep learning, and digital signal processing. That includes classification models for diagnosis support, regression models for forecasting, boosted decision trees for structured data, feature extraction pipelines for multimodal signals, and visualization systems that surface insights clearly to clinicians and researchers.

Healthcare algorithm design isn’t one model—it’s the continuous interplay of data quality, preprocessing, statistical validation, domain-specific heuristics, and deployment-ready engineering.

Why This Matters

Build smarter, more efficient healthcare algorithms with AI-driven insights and data science expertise.

Healthcare is unforgiving of error. An algorithm that fails quietly is worse than an algorithm that fails loudly. Models built without clinical awareness can introduce bias, amplify inconsistencies, or produce misleading results that impact care delivery.

Startups and medical organizations often lose months (or years) trying to adapt generic AI tooling to clinical problems. Theta Tech eliminates this gap by bringing deep AI expertise paired with clinical engineering fluency. We understand how to design algorithms that withstand scientific scrutiny, protect patient data, and integrate cleanly into existing systems—from imaging pipelines to digital health platforms to device ecosystems.

Build smarter, more efficient healthcare algorithms with AI-driven insights and data science expertise.

Sub-Services
  • Clinical Decision Support – Classification & Regression:
    AI models that enhance diagnostic precision, risk assessment, and clinical decision-making.
  • Boosted Decision Trees:
    Optimized classical ML algorithms for structured healthcare data and tabular metadata.
  • Feature Engineering:
    Extracting meaningful, domain-specific insights from raw clinical or biomedical data.
  • Data De-identification & Anonymization:
    Pipelines engineered for HIPAA compliance and PHI-safe AI development.
  • Large Dataset Analysis:
    High-performance processing of large-scale imaging, EHR, and device-generated datasets.
  • Healthcare Data Science:
    Custom analytics and modeling pipelines built for clinical research, operations, and digital health platforms.
  • Data Visualization:
    Interactive dashboards that convert complex metrics into intuitive visuals for clinical teams.
  • Digital Signal Processing (ECG, EEG, Biomedical):
    Advanced signal analysis for diagnostic, monitoring, and device-integration applications.

The Result

Smarter, safer healthcare algorithms engineered with precision and real-world clinical awareness.

Theta Tech transforms raw medical data into actionable intelligence—
supporting better decisions, clearer insights, and stronger patient outcomes.

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Case Studies

Real-World Impact

Explore our successful AI case studies.
Algorithm for Collaboration & Distribution
Updating disparate and unorganized AI algorithm code into cohesive and easily sharable notebooks.
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Clinical UI Design for Radiology AI
Creating intuitive software interfaces that empower doctors and accelerate AI innovation
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Developing 3D Radiology AI Solutions
Moving University Client to the Cloud with Open Source Medical AI Models
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Publications

Explore Our Work

See our 35+ Peer-Reviewed Publications & Patents.
Improved Active Shape Models for Segmentation of the Prostate on MR Imagery
Toth, R. “Improved Active Shape Models for Segmentation of the Prostate on MR Imagery,” M.S. Thesis, Rutgers University, 2010.
Evaluation of prostate segmentation algorithms for MRI: The PROMISE12 challenge
Litjens, G., Toth, R., van de Ven, W., Hoeks, C., Kerkstra, S., van Ginneken, B., Vincent, G., Guillard, G., Birbeck, N., Zhang, J., Strand, R., Malmberg, F., Ou, Y., Davatzikos, C., Kirschner, M., Jung, F., Yuan, J., Qiu, W., Gao, Q., Edwards, P.E., Maan, B., van der Heijden, F., Ghose, S., Mitra, J., Dowling, J., Barratt, D., Huisman, H., Madabhushi, A. “Evaluation of prostate segmentation algorithms for MRI: The PROMISE12 challenge.” Medical Image Analysis 25:18(2), Dec 2013 pp. 359-373. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2013.12.002
HistostitcherTM: An informatics software platform for reconstructing whole-mount prostate histology using the extensible imaging platform framework
Toth, R.J., Shih, N., Tomaszewski, J.E., Feldman, M.D., Kutter, O., Yu, D.N., Paulus, J.C., Paladini, G., Madabhushi, A., “HistostitcherTM: An informatics software platform for reconstructing whole-mount prostate histology using the extensible imaging platform framework.” Journal of Pathology Informatics 5(8), Mar 2014. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.129441
A Domain Constrained Deformable (DoCD) Model for Co-registration of Pre- and Post-Radiated Prostate MRI
Toth, R., Traughber, B., Ellis, R., Kurhanewicz, J., Madabhushi, A., “A Domain Constrained Deformable (DoCD) Model for Co-registration of Pre- and Post-Radiated Prostate MRI.” Neurocomputing 144(20) Nov 2014. pp. 3-12 doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.01.058
"Theta Tech AI is an exciting medical AI consulting company whom we’ve worked with for over a decade.

Their team of experienced healthcare AI developers and PhD level biomedical engineers have helped us accelerate our clinical AI research implementation efforts.

Their team is hardworking and extremely responsive.
If you’re in the healthcare technology space, you’d be remiss to not work with Theta Tech." 
Professor Anant Madabhushi
Executive Director for the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute
"Theta Tech AI brings together biomedical engineers and medical imaging experts who deeply understand both AI and clinical practice.

For anyone working in healthcare AI—especially at a leading university or tech company—they are a fantastic team to collaborate with."
Assistant Professor Andrew Janowczyk
Emory University
"Theta Tech AI is an outstanding team of biomedical engineers and medical imaging software experts, who can provide you with specialized healthcare AI solutions that will ensure successful ventures in this space."
Satish E. Viswanath, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
"Theta Tech AI is a highly competent healthcare AI consulting company that has deep expertise spanning machine learning, data science, medical data, image analysis, comprising of a great team of biomedical engineers."
Mike Galvin
Co-Founder & Chairman of LivAI

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