NVIDIA ’s Medical Imaging Supercomputer Opens New Horizons for Diagnostics

Silicon Valley-based tech giant, NVIDIA presented its new medical imaging supercomputer, CLARA at the company’s yearly GPU Tech Conference last week. The artificial intelligence-powered platform is able to take even 15-year-old ultrasound images and augment them with visualized, 3D information in order to provide better insight for diagnosticians and advance the process of finding and curing diseases. Using the power of artificial intelligence to modernize medical imaging Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO said in his keynote speech how the company is aiming for „revolutionizing modern medical imaging using computational approaches”. He explained that the starting point for the idea stems from the realization that the adoption of new technologies by medical facilities lags way behind for several reasons. There are approximately 3 million medical imaging instruments out there worldwide, and around 100 thousand ones are purchased each year. As a response, NVIDIA has developed a software-based solution where you can take any medical image produced via any type of machine – CT, MRI, PET scan, ultrasound, mammograms, etc. – and have a lot more insight using the power of deep learning and 3D visualization. As Kimberly Powell, VP of Healthcare in NVIDIA told The Medical Futurist, CLARA can take raw data from an ultrasound scanner and do the entire imaging pipeline virtually and very efficiently. She explained how NVIDIA’s experience in gaming is actually translated here into t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI diagnostics Healthcare Innovation medical medical imaging NVIDIA Radiology supercomputer technology Source Type: blogs