NVIDIA announced that it will implement its artificial intelligence technology in medical devices with a view to detect cancer early. The company signed an agreement with Medtronic to integrate AI into your GI Genius endoscopy module. According to the technology, this will be the first AI-assisted colonoscopy tool that will help specialists identify possible colon cancer.
The GI Genius is an AI-assisted system that identifies colorectal polyps. Specialist doctors use it in colonoscopies to visualize polyps and lesions that could become cancer. Unlike conventional procedures, artificial intelligence marks areas with abnormal characteristics in real time.
Although the GI Genius was launched in 2021, the agreement with NVIDIA will allow it to be promoted in the future by implementing your Clara medical platform. This comprises Holoscan, a real-time AI software solution for building medical devices, as well as IGX, a hardware platform that will power the system to deliver diagnostic images enhanced by artificial intelligence.
GI Genius has been designed to house a suite of AI algorithms and the integration of the NVIDIA Clara healthcare platform could allow Medtronic to scale algorithm development for procedures in real time, potentially accelerating AI innovation for better patient care. patient.
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Kimberly Powell, vice president of healthcare at NVIDIA, said the company is collaborating with Medtronic with the goal of improve clinical decision makingreduce medical variability and generate better outcomes for patients.
AI as a tool to detect cancer
NVIDIA, like other companies, have opted to integrate artificial intelligence into medical devices to fight cancer. In recent days, Google advertisement who works in an AI that will help health centers in the interpretation of ultrasounds. Image analysis is intended for clinics in regions that do not have enough specialists.
In addition to that, Google is also working on the development of an AI-powered ultrasound technology that could become an alternative to mammograms. The technology company closed agreements with various health organizations worldwide and announced that it will explore the role of artificial intelligence in cancer treatment planning.
Although Google’s medical-focused LLM models have improved significantly, they are not the only alternative. An AI developed by the company Vara would help detect breast cancer with a higher success rate than medical personnel. The technology analyzes the radiographs and allows to identify values that could lead to a major health problem.
ChatGPT will not replace doctors (for now)
Vara’s model was trained on more than 367,000 mammograms and related patient information. the AI would solve a latent problem women face in proceedings, and it is that radiologists fail to detect 1 in 8 cancer diagnoses. The technology analyzes details that are overlooked by medical personnel, which will be sent for further analysis.
It is worth mentioning that AI is not capable of detecting cancer by itself. We are not yet at a point where ChatGPT will replace doctors, although it will become an indispensable tool for them in the future.