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Sony Announces the Launch of the SFAi – Life Sciences Cloud Platform
Sony today announced the launch of the SFA – Life Sciences Cloud Platform, a flow cytometry data analysis cloud solution that can quickly identify rare cells, such as cancer cells and stem cells, from a wide variety of cell populations, using data obtained from flow cytometers. A flow cytometer is a powerful tool that analyzes…
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Fujitsu and TMDU leverage world’s fastest supercomputer and AI technology for scientific discovery to shed light on drug resistance in cancer treatment
Fujitsu and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) today announced a new technology that uses AI to discover new causal mechanisms of drug resistance in cancer treatments from clinical data. Leveraging the world’s fastest supercomputer Fugaku, the new technology enables high-speed calculation of 20,000 variables of data within a single day and allows for…
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EIZO Announces Its First 32″ 4K Resolution Surgical Monitor for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
EIZO today announced the release of CuratOR LX3240-MR – EIZO’s first 32-inch, 8-megapixel color monitor for use in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system environment. CuratOR LX3240-MR 4K UHD (3840 x 2160 pixels) wide-screen monitor is specially designed for operation in medical environments and for displaying images in the vicinity of a strong magnetic field,…
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Fujitsu and Aichi Cancer Center Develop AI System to Offer Patients Personalized Cancer Treatment
Aichi Cancer Center and Fujitsu today announced the development of an AI solution able to select effective medical treatment from a wide range of drugs based on patients’ individual cancer types and various genomic variants. With current cancer genomic medicine in Japan, treatment plans are considered based on the patients’ unique circumstances, including the type…
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Olympus SLIDEVIEW VS200 Research Slide Scanner Offers Easy-to-Operate High-Resolution Data Acquisition
Olympus announced today the launch of the SLIDEVIEW VS200 solution, a research slide scanner that captures high-quality virtual slide images and enables advanced quantitative image analysis for brain, cancer and stem cell research, as well as drug discovery. Reliable virtual slide data can be acquired with as few as two clicks. The SLIDEVIEW VS200 slide…
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Smart Phone Selfie using Artificial-intelligence Technology to Detect Periodontal Disease
Japan based Tohoku University and NTT DoCoMo has begun researching an artificial-intelligence (AI) technology to detect periodontal disease simply by photographing a person’s gums with a smartphone. Periodontal disease can lead to tooth loss and lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, stroke, obesity and type II diabetes, so a solution for early detection could offer…
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EIZO Announces 5 Megapixel Monochrome Medical Monitor Ideal for Viewing Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis
EIZO today announced the release of the RadiForce GX560, a 21.3-inch 5 megapixel monochrome medical monitor ideal for viewing mammography and breast tomosynthesis. It comes with space saving features and new functionality for improving reading room efficiency. The Eizo GX560 utilizes a low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) liquid crystal display, which can reach a maximum brightness…
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Endoscopic Imaging Diagnosis using AI System Detects Gastric Cancers with over 90% Accuracy within One Minute
A deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) system (The AI was a joint project developed by Tomohiro Tada of the Saitama-based Tada Tomohiro Institute of Gastroenterology and Proctology, the Tokyo-based Cancer Institute Hospital in Ariake, Tokyo, and other facilities) has been developed to detect gastric cancers, and achieved over 90 percent accuracy in analysis of more…
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South Korean doctors develop method to detect cancer cells in blood without biopsy
A group of South Korean doctors led by Cho Young-koo at the National Cancer Center successfully detected and isolated circulating tumor cells (CTC) in blood samples of early-stage breast cancer patients. This discovery could lead to a broad range of practical clinical applications in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. CTCs have been recognized as…
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CANDLE AI Software to Deliver a Decade of Cancer Advances in Just Five Years
NVIDIA today announced that it is teaming up with the National Cancer Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and several national laboratories on an initiative to accelerate cancer research. The initiative — known as the Cancer Moonshot, announced by President Barack Obama during his 2016 State of the Union Address, and led by Vice…
