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BIOS’s Innovative Medical Imaging Solution Recognized by Fast Company

Earlier this year, the machine learning-based medical imaging solution that Johns Hopkins University’s BIOS team helped develop was chosen as an honoree in the Fast Company 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards in the AI and data category. This imaging solution was created via a collaboration of the BIOS Neuroimaging Center (BIONIC) team, Quantiphi, and Google Cloud.

The imaging solution takes the CT scans of patients with traumatic brain injury and identifies lesions in intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). This imaging solution has the ability to pinpoint problem areas and calculate the volume of blood clot. As a result, the imaging solution helps to save lives by discovering problems quickly, and thereby reduces the amount of time it takes to review patient scans.

“The imaging solution is really designed to change the game in clinical trials—to take what is being done manually in multiple steps and automate it to occur in one step. So, a process that took 6-8 hours will basically all be one click of a button, cutting that 6- to 8-hour time frame down to 90 seconds,” said Meghan Hildreth, senior research program coordinator and BIONIC manager.

The Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas recognition of this imaging solution is a marker of BIOS’ efforts to innovate while providing expert management to clinical trials.