Diagnostics service provider Unilabs has signed an agreement with AI company Mindpeak in a deal set to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients.
Mindpeak’s AI will speed up Unilabs’ breast cancer screening and make it more accurate.
The deployment is already underway at Unilabs St Göran’s lab in Stockholm and the technology will be progressively rolled out to other parts of Sweden before being introduced at Unilabs’ other locations.
Unilabs Chief Medical and Operations Officer Dr Christian Rebhan, said:
“At Unilabs, we are continuously improving the quality and efficiency of our diagnostics capabilities by investing in the best available technology.
“This development will transform the way pathologists work and will allow us to better serve our customers.”
Diagnosing breast cancer involves the detection and quantification of immunohistochemically stained breast tumour cells.
The process is currently done manually and is very time-consuming.
Mindpeak AI helps pathologists count these cells, cutting reporting time by an estimated 60 per cent and ensuring consistency.
The integration of Mindpeak means faster diagnosis for patients, speeding up time-to-treatment and potentially improving outcomes.
Mindpeak CEO, Felix Faber, said:
“We are very pleased that Unilabs, one of the world’s largest diagnostics groups, chose our state-of-the-art AI-based diagnostic tools.
“Deep workflow integration of our AI tools will deliver significant efficiency gains and ultimately save lives.”
Mindpeak’s BreastIHC AI will soon be available to thousands of pathologists in India and the US, the company revealed last week.
The software can detect, quantify and classify breast cancer cells from digital images of tissue samples, requiring only a standard computer.
The technology represents a huge leap forward in cancer diagnosis, which has remained largely unchanged over the past century, a company spokesperson told Health Tech World.
Carsten Maltzan said:
“They count out a few hundred cells under the microscope – a strenuous, tedious and often repetitive activity.
“Our software can decisively relieve the experts by preparing and taking over this counting and classification in such a way that pathologists only have to check the result.”
