MobiHealth News October 21, 2021
The software automatically analyses chest CT images for pneumonia.
Fujifilm India has partnered with Bangalore-based multi-speciality private healthcare provider Sakra World Hospital to launch a new AI-enabled software assisting doctors in diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia.
WHAT IT DOES
The COVID-19 Pneumonia Image Analysis Programme automatically analyses chest CT images and display findings. It features Fujifilm’s picture archiving and communication system SYNAPSE 3D, a workstation system that visualises and analyses 3D images from CT and MRI scans.
WHY IT MATTERS
COVID-19 pneumonia, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine article, tends to affect both lungs of a patient. Air sacs in the lungs can be filled with fluid which limits their ability to take in oxygen and causes shortness of breath, cough and...