LINKÖPING, Sweden, Nov. 6,
2018 /PRNewswire/ --
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company
Sectra (STO: SECT B) will provide its vendor-neutral platform
for AI to the consortium Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative
(NPIC). University of Leeds announced today (Tuesday November 6) that the three-year project
has received a total investment of £17.1m from UK Research and
Innovation and the companies involved in the programme. The
consortium is now set to become a globally-leading centre for
applying artificial intelligence (AI) research to cancer
diagnosis.
NPIC consists of nine NHS hospitals, seven universities and ten
industry-leading medical technology companies and is led by Dr
Darren Treanor at the University of
Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Digital pathology
images will be gathered for training AI systems and will generate
about 760,000 images per year, about 1.2 Petabytes of data. The
project also aims to develop more integrated ways of working across
regional clinical pathology services.
Sectra will contribute to the project with its vendor-neutral
platform for AI, with its IT solutions for reviewing and handling
medical images, Sectra PACS and Sectra VNA, at its core. Sectra
will also carry out the integrations with scanners and Laboratory
Information Systems (LIMS). Additionally, Sectra will provide its
solution for sharing images (IEP), which will contribute to a
'national pathology exchange' solution. It allows images to be
shared between NHS sites nationally so that patients can benefit
from second opinions from anywhere in the UK.
"Sectra brings in comprehensive experience with imaging
platforms and dealing with large amounts of data. We are proud to
have the opportunity to share and use it during this exciting
project. Sectra's vendor neutral approach, standards-based
communication, and experience integrating with third party
specialised applications, will allow the use and encourage further
development of small AI companies by bringing their tools into the
common platform, and allowing them the use of all the training data
available. All of which we believe is crucial to the successful
implementation of AI technology to truly revolutionise diagnostic
work," says Jane Rendall, president
of Sectra in the UK.
Dr. Darren Treanor, a Pathologist
at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,
said: "Digital pathology is a technology with a huge potential to
improve healthcare. This new northern co-operative will allow us to
use digital pathology to help patients across the region and
provide a platform on which we will develop artificial intelligence
tools for pathology diagnosis to be used around the world."
Read more about the project >>
For further information, please contact:
Dr.
Torbjörn Kronander,
CEO and President Sectra AB,
+46(0)705-23-52-27
Marie Ekström Trägårdh,
Executive Vice President Sectra AB and President Sectra Imaging IT
Solutions,
+46(0)708-23-56-10
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