Mayo Clinic and IBM Establish Medical Imaging Research Center
Mayo Clinic and IBM have created 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 2007 Mayo-IBM announcement, 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.
Dr. Bradley Erickson (sitting), head of Mayo’s Radiology Informatics Lab. and Bill Rapp, distinguished engineer and chief technology officer of IBM's Healthcare and Life Sciences team, scan brain images in the new Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center on the Mayo campus in Rochester, MN. The Center is a collaborative endeavor by Mayo and IBM, providing the medical community a research facility aimed at advancing imaging technologies to improve the quality of patient care.
