AI Lights S.r.l. won first place at StartCup Lombardia 2026 in the Life Sciences & MedTech category. The spin-off was established in 2026 and co-founded by Dr. Daniele M. Papetti and Prof. Daniela Besozzi in collaboration with researchers from Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (Prof. Marco S. Nobile) and IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano (Dr. Camilla Torlasco) and the partners of Beacon S.r.l. (Lorenzo S. Massucchielli and Riccardo Rabuffi).
StartCup, a regional reference competition for enhancing entrepreneurial ideas emerging from the academic world, awarded THAITI, a machine learning-based technology for the optimization of cardiac magnetic resonance. The recognition shows the high innovative nature and strategic value of the project in the field of healthcare technology.
Daniele M. Papetti led the design and development of models for the real-time prediction of exam acquisition parameters. This system allows the machine to adapt to the patient's specific anatomy during the scan itself, reducing the need to repeat sequences and making cardiac diagnostics faster, more efficient, and reproducible.
Daniela Besozzi coordinated the conceptual framework related to the new AI paradigm in medicine: no longer used solely a posteriori for analyzing and identifying anomalies in already stored images, but employed upstream in machine learning directly guiding the generative phase of the images themselves.
AI Lights now aims to bring THAITI technology into daily clinical practice in healthcare facilities, while expanding its portfolio of solutions into humanitarian and civil protection fields as well.