News and reflections from the world of AI

    Aiforia and X-ZELL partner to scale up novel AI-powered method for early cancer detection

    Singapore, Helsinki -- Aiforia, a leading software company providing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for medical image analysis, and X-ZELL, a ...
    Written by Aiforia

    5 reasons to use AI in clinical diagnostics

    Rising rates of disease like cancer increase sample numbers creating a bigger burden on pathologists, an already underrepresented group of healthcare ...
    Written by Aiforia

    Benefits of AI and digital pathology to the clinical lab: interview with pathologists Dr. Mirtti and Dr. Sandeman

    Pathologists have been examining glass slides under a microscope for over 150 years. Only recently did laboratories around the world start digitizing ...
    Written by Aiforia
    March 16, 2021

    Validation of PD-L1 AI model launches in six labs across the Netherlands

    Introduction  Programmed death-ligand 1 (PDL1) is a protein that, when attached to T cells, prevent the immune system from killing cancer cells. Hence, PDL1 is used as a biomarker for tumor immune escape, a sign of increasing cancer progression. PDL1 percentage is also a significant predictor for immunotherapy efficacy, whereby immune checkpoint inhibitors bind to PDL1 and block its ability to ...
    Written by Aiforia
    February 4, 2021

    DECIDER project launches to improve diagnostics and treatment of ovarian cancer

    The European Union has funded a project to improve personalized treatments for ovarian cancer with nearly 15 million euros for five years. The international DECIDER project has partners from 14 organizations in seven EU countries.
    Written by Aiforia
    October 9, 2020

    Interview with Kevin Sandeman: driving one of the world’s largest digital transformations in pathology

    Skåne, a southern county of Sweden, recently completed one of the largest adoptions of digital pathology in the world. Four labs, 14 scanners, and an estimated 890,746 slides were used and scanned from May 2019 to July 2020.  At the helm of this feat, pushing forward the digitization of these pathology labs, is Kevin Sandeman. We interviewed him to hear about the process of going digital, what ...
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