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AstraZeneca backs AI-based lung cancer diagnosis pilot in UK

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Greater Manchester has been selected as the site for the trial, as rates of lung cancer there are among the highest in the UK, said the partners. qXR has been trained on more than 2 million X-rays and their corresponding radiology reports, using deep-learning algorithms to interpret the images. The pilot will run for six months.

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IBM sells off large parts of Watson Health business

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Francisco Partners is picking up a range of databases and analytics tools – including Health Insights, MarketScan, Clinical Development, Social Programme Management, Micromedex and other imaging and radiology tools – for an undisclosed sum estimated to be in the region of $1 billion.

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What will the 2023 drug discovery landscape look like?

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Virtual clinical trials ‘Virtual’ and ‘technology’ are concepts which are readily exchanged in this industry, but these are more than just buzzwords. The overall virtual clinical trials market is currently valued at $7.8 In early November 2022, two Alzheimer’s drugs were tested head-to-head in a first-ever virtual clinical trial 3.

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Scrutinizing the West Syndrome Market Space from Growth Perspectives

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It can be due to the previous existence of brain damage signs (psychomotor retardation, neurologic signs, radiologic signs, or other types of seizures) or on the basis of etiology that is characterized by a lack of previous signs of brain damage. There are many different causes of epileptic spasms.

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The tech revolution reshaping European healthcare

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In the European hospital setting, the first to digitise were the picture archiving systems (PACS) in radiology departments then electronic medical records (EMRs), patient administration systems and departmental IT flow work solutions (eg, laboratory information systems and radiology information systems).

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