Innovators bring AI into imaging skills development
October 30, 2019
Two Ontario hospital organizations – encompassing six sites – will soon deploy artificial intelligence to help with continuous learning and peer review in their imaging departments. By automatically detecting the types of cases being read by radiologists at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and Hamilton Health Sciences, the system will deliver the latest journal findings, as well as personal pattern recognition and error avoidance, direct to their desktops. Read More
BURNABY, B.C. – In an unusual move for a municipality, City council in Burnaby has approved a $1-million grant to the Burnaby Hospital Foundation to partially cover the cost of a second CT scanner. The new machine will enable 10,000 more scans per year, according to a city report.
TORONTO – RetiSpec Inc. announced it has received an award from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to fund the accelerated development of retinal imaging technology for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The award of up to $500,000 (U.S.) includes a direct investment in the company. It is an investment through the ADDF’s Diagnostics Accelerator initiative.
SUDBURY – Health Sciences North officially opened its PET scanner suite. The machine has been operating at Sudbury’s hospital since June, but October 9 was the official celebration of something the community has worked for since 2009.
TORONTO – Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) celebrated the arrival of its research MRI, which will be housed in a soon-to-be built world-class MRI suite. This MRI suite will be the first in Canada to be immersive, customizable, child-friendly and fully accessible, and is poised to accelerate research into child and youth brain function.
TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Bialogics Analytics Inc. and emtelligent™ have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate Bialogics DImax AI Ready Business Intelligence Platform with emtelligent’s emtelliPro™ Natural Language Processing engine. Using emtelliPro to extract structured clinical data from imaging reports, Bialogics will be able to provide radiology departments with richer, deeper, analytics-based insights that maximize both operational efficiencies and clinical effectiveness.
MONTREAL – The McGill University Health Centre has acquired Canada’s most sophisticated cardiac MRI machine to advance research into heart disease, and to provide faster and more accurate diagnoses.
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – With more than 1.82 million laboratory tests performed at Peterborough Regional Health Centre every year, the work that happens in the lab is crucial in supporting patient diagnosis. As part of this work, laboratory staff were spending upwards of six hours each day manually filing and sorting slides containing tissue and cell samples – a situation common in labs around the world.