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Sheba Medical Center pioneers accelerated AI cancer diagnostics platform
Sheba Medical Center , Israel ’ s largest medical centre and ranked world ’ s best hospital for the last five years , announced the deployment of a new accelerated , AI-powered cancer diagnostics research platform to improve patient diagnosis , treatment and outcomes . The platform enables the integration of AI technology developed by Sheba in addition to solutions created by innovative digital health startups .
One of the first AI solutions to be deployed was developed by Imagene , an emerging leader in AIbased precision oncology , incorporating an algorithm to identify actionable biomarkers of non-small cell lung cancer . The algorithm is directly applied to a digitised image of a conventionally stained pathology slide and can then , within minutes , identify the presence of actionable biomarkers in the tumour , thus providing crucial information for diagnostic and therapeutic decisions . The solution essentially shortens diagnostic time from three weeks to minutes , enabling patients to begin treatment earlier .
“ We have reached another significant milestone in digital pathology with this ability to detect biomarkers by AI . The use of deep learning algorithms is changing the world of diagnosis and in certain cases can drastically shorten
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