Cell imaging, multi-modal fusion, bioprocess optimisation and real-world evidence
We are an AI consultancy for problems that demand both AI and bioscience expertise: a readout that does not yet exist and has to be biologically defensible, data that is heterogeneous, sparse or misaligned across sources, or a result that must be interpretable enough to defend to a regulator, a clinician or a process engineer.
Our technical work draws on more than thirty years of research and development in computer vision and machine learning, across academic and industrial settings, including methods adopted into ISO/IEC international standards. Our scientific work draws on an equivalent period in toxicology and the biosciences. Together, these allow us to define readouts that are both computable and biologically meaningful, and where existing methods are not sufficient, we develop new ones. When the signal is spread across modalities, we combine imaging, omics, clinical and process data in one analysis.
We are a team of scientists and AI specialists who work closely with our partners to understand the scientific problem and the decision it needs to support. Only then do we define the approach and how to use the available data. We do not offer a platform; we build around the specific problem, refining the approach with our partners as the work progresses.
“I have worked extensively with Forecom AI for the past 5 years on a complex groundbreaking innovation that impacts the lives of patients. Forecom have been incredible, quickly understanding the significant challenges that both patients and clinicians faced with the current status quo before interrogating extensive data sets to develop an AI tool that fundamentally changes the way in which patients were identified, treated and managed.
I have found them to be real partners in our endeavour, both adaptable and innovative in their approach. They had a passion to undertake the detailed scientific rigour and innovation required for this study. They are an impressive, innovative and thoroughly professional organisation and I cannot recommend them highly enough.”
- Dr Imran Khan, Global Medical Director, Pfizer
“ForecomAI helped us analyse challenging real-world evidence on recurrent VTE and clinically significant bleeding. Their rigorous approach balanced competing clinical priorities and produced a model that was both interpretable and useful for decision-making. They understood the clinical context, not just the data, and communicated complex outputs clearly to non-technical stakeholders. The team adapted well as requirements evolved, and the collaboration was responsive and well managed throughout. We would gladly work with them again.”
- Dr Kevin Pollock, PhD MPH, formerly Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Director of RWE, International Markets
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Understand the behaviour of your cells when exposed to diverse perturbations, including environmental, pharmacological, and viral, across 2D monolayers, 3D culture systems such as spheroids and organoids, and time-resolved live-cell imaging.
By carefully weighing your available data, endpoints of interest, and other constraints, we design and implement a custom algorithm that brings clear and interpretable insight, whether the challenge involves complex cell types, volumetric quantification, or tracking dynamic cellular processes over time.
For example, cell painting images can be used to predict the mechanism of action for each drug in a high-content screen, or detect early signatures of stress indicative of toxicity. Equally, live-cell data can be analysed to quantify migration, proliferation, and death kinetics that static snapshots cannot capture. This ensures that candidate compounds are more rigorously vetted before passing to the next testing stage, saving precious resources and time.
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Biological systems generate data across fundamentally different modalities: imaging, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, clinical records, and sensor outputs. Each captures a partial view of the underlying biology. Multi-modal fusion is the principled integration of these heterogeneous data streams to construct a more complete representation than any single modality can provide.
This is not simply concatenating datasets. Naive combination frequently degrades rather than improves performance. Each data type carries its own noise profile, dimensionality, sparsity pattern, and sampling bias. Aligning these representations, handling missing modalities, and learning when to weight each contribution are non-trivial technical challenges that demand careful architectural choices.
We design fusion strategies (early, late, and intermediate) tailored to the biological question, the available data, and the downstream application, extracting signal that is genuinely synergistic across modalities rather than redundant or contradictory.
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Optimise your process for yield, efficiency, cell viability or batch reproducibility. We apply machine learning to your process data to identify critical parameter interactions, predict optimal operating conditions and detect early deviations from target performance. Whether you are scaling from bench to bioreactor or troubleshooting batch-to-batch variability, our models integrate multivariate process analytics with real-time sensor data to deliver actionable, data-driven recommendations.
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We apply advanced analytical and AI methods to clinical trial data and real-world data (RWD) sourced from electronic health records, registries, claims databases, and patient-reported outcomes. Our work supports evidence generation across the drug development lifecycle, from early-phase signal detection through post-marketing surveillance and the generation of real-world evidence to support health technology assessment and regulatory decision-making.
Our capabilities include the design and execution of retrospective and prospective observational studies, comparative effectiveness research, and the development of predictive models for patient stratification, treatment response, and disease progression. We can integrate multi-modal data sources to strengthen the evidence base where single data streams are insufficient.
consortia partnerships
We welcome approaches from organisations interested in forming or joining EU research consortia.
ForecomAI (under Forecom Bioscience Ltd) is registered as an SME on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
