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Simplifying Doctor's Workflow
Arterys, another groundbreaking firm using AWS to build and host
machine learning algorithms in health, is basing its entire platform
to help doctors be more efficient with their review and diagnosis of
patients' conditions. The company spent years in development of a
powerful viewer interface for medical professionals to access medical
images, run AI models within a clinical workflow, and do comparative
analysis. While the platform has a wide variety of technologies at
work through AWS to improve the doctor's workflow (from reporting
capabilities to high-resolution imaging), machine learning is improving
the diagnostic imaging process.
Using Machine Learning to Enhance Diagnosis Process
Arterys began exploring diagnostic applications of machine learning
with heart defects in newborns and young children. These anomalies
were previously detected through ultrasound, which offered only
partial views and couldn't calculate blood flow abnormalities. Using
AWS Machine Learning and cloud instances, the platform easily
handles the massive data crunching needed to create and compare
useful pictures of blood flow. Cardiac analysis time has been cut from
40 minutes to six minutes.
Arterys then explored applications of machine learning diagnosis to
cancer—specifically, lung cancer (the leading type of cancer death).
Historically, radiologists would painstakingly look through the scans to
try differentiate nodules in the lung from cancerous lesions. With AWS,
a new image is compared to hundreds of thousands of similar cases
almost instantaneously to identify these nodules leading to greater
accuracy and productivity. Professionals can then work within the system
to access multiple views from multiple time points, and see likely growth
models for nodules over time automatically. More than 100 hospitals
and imaging centers around the world now use Arterys seamlessly in
their imaging workflow.
With thousands of AI models created around the globe, and no easy way
to deploy them into the clinical workflow, the Arterys platform enables
these to be deployed via a simple web browser. Arterys is building a
world where clinical care is data-driven, intelligent, and patient focused.
By combining the
power of AI and
the AWS cloud,
everyone around
the world can
have a chance
at early-stage
cancer diagnosis
and an increased
chance of
survival."
Fabien Beckers,
Arterys Founder
and CEO
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