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Each week, IBM will highlight a story from around the world where IBM engineers are collaborating with clients, business partners, ISV's and education institutions to bring the latest technology to the market in new and innovative ways. |
DID YOU KNOW.....
...that according to BreastCancer.org, every three seconds a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer? To combat this horrible disease, medical, services and IT companies are continuously looking at news ways in which technology can applied to help in early detection and prevention.
Currently, at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Conference Washington, DC, IBM and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic are presenting breakthrough test results for a 3D imaging application which will allow radiologists to detect growth or shrinkage of tumors in mere seconds – compared to minutes or hours — taking away hours of painful waiting periods. Leveraging the Cell Broadband Engine, the same microprocessor used in Sony’s PLAYSTATION®3, the Mayo imaging application is able to register medical images approximately 50x faster than a solution running on a traditional processor configuration, and align two sets of medical images obtained at different dates or from different imaging devices such as MRI or CT.
The application running on a typical processor configuration completed the registration of 98 sets of images in approximately seven hours. The IBM-Mayo team adapted the application to the Cell processor — via IBM’s Cell Blades — and completed the registration for all 98 sets of images in just 516 seconds, with no registration taking more than 20 seconds. By collaborating with Mayo Clinic, IBM is able to help clients deliver technology that changes people’s lives.
You can see the official press release here. See how IBM is collaborating with clients in unique ways in next Friday’s installment.
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