# Thomas J. Fuchs

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## TL;DR

Trained the first clinical-grade AI on tens of thousands of slides, leading to the first FDA-authorised AI pathology product.

## Summary

Thomas Fuchs led the MSKCC work that trained a deep-learning system on 44,000 whole-slide images using only slide-level labels and showed it could triage prostate, skin and breast biopsies at clinical accuracy, the foundation for Paige Prostate, the first FDA-authorised AI in pathology. He co-founded Paige and now leads AI and human health at Mount Sinai, focusing on foundation models for medicine.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: ai; pathology; digital-pathology
- Role: Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Co-founder, Paige
- Specialisms: Computational pathology; Clinical-grade AI; Machine learning at scale; Digital pathology

## Sources

- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Fuchs%20TJ%5BAuthor%5D%20computational%20pathology

## Connected records

- cancers: [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- technologies: [Digital pathology & AI](https://onco.cc/technologies/digital-pathology-ai/), [Pathology & radiology foundation models](https://onco.cc/technologies/pathology-foundation-model/)
- institutions: [The Mount Sinai Hospital / Tisch Cancer Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/mount-sinai/)

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