Mayo Clinic and IBM Establish Medical Imaging Research Center
Posted on: Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 15:00 CST
Mayo Clinic, a not-for-profit medical center, and IBM have announced the creation of a collaborative research facility aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve the quality of patient care.
The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) is an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration announced in 2007, the results of which have given physicians the ability to register medical images up to 50 times quicker and provide critical diagnosis, such as the growth or shrinkage of tumors, in seconds instead of hours.
At the heart of the MI3C will be a latest in high-end imaging platforms and computational hardware, including IBM's breakthrough computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine and blade technology.
Bill Rapp, chief technology officer of healthcare and life sciences team at IBM, said: "The MI3C is a physical manifestation of the larger set of skills and resources IBM and Mayo Clinic can collectively apply to the medical imaging space. IBM has world-class research and development teams focused on the fundamental algorithms that drive medical imaging informatics and hardware, while Mayo Clinic provides its expertise for exploiting these algorithms in applications that support a working, real-life radiology environment."
Source: Datamonitor
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