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AIsaliencyGrad-CAM

Can We See What Kifua AI Sees? Building Trust with Saliency Maps

Kifua AI uses Grad-CAM heatmaps to show why it flagged an X-ray, helping clinicians see the regions that influenced the prediction and judge its reliability

Fred MutisyaDec 1, 2025

Clinical Decision Support IMCI/IMNCISmall Language Model (SLM)

Why Afya-Yangu AI? Rethinking Clinical Decision Support for Kenyan Primary Care

An offline, Kenya-aligned clinical assistant that turns scattered guidelines into fast, clear, point-of-care answers for frontline clinicians.

Fred MutisyaDec 1, 2025

RadiologyKifua AIAI

Kifua AI: Why Chest X-ray Triage Matters in Low-Radiologist Settings

A tool that flags concerning chest X-rays and prioritises urgent cases supporting clinicians in high-volume settings with few radiologists.

Fred MutisyaNov 26, 2025

AIAfya-Yangu AI MedGemma

Inside Afya-Yangu AI: How MedGemma, RAG, and FAISS Turn Guidelines into Answers

How Afya-Yangu AI works by combining smart search and a medical language model to turn Kenyan guidelines into quick, reliable, bedside answers—working fully offline for frontline clinicians.

Fred MutisyaAug 12, 2025

AIGPUMedGemma

Bringing Afya-Yangu AI to the Edge: Designing for Patchy Networks and Low-Power Devices

Designed for real clinics with patchy networks, it runs a small on-device model and fast local search to deliver reliable, up-to-date guidance on low-power hardware.

Fred MutisyaJul 1, 2025

AIclinical AIRAG

Can We Trust an Offline AI Clinician Assistant? Guardrails in Afya-Yangu AI

Grounded in Kenyan guidelines, tightly prompted, and fully auditable through de-identified logs, Afya-Yangu AI is built to support clinicians safely not replace them

Fred MutisyaMay 15, 2025

EffusionCardiomegalyAtelectasis

From CheXpert to Kifua AI: Training Deep Learning Models to See Lungs

Kifua AI starts by learning from the large CheXpert dataset, then uses an ensemble of models for stronger, more reliable detection later fine-tuned with local Kenyan X-rays.

Fred MutisyaNov 6, 2024