The Emergency County Clinical Hospital in Timisoara will be the first in Romania where artificial intelligence will be implemented to analyze the lung x-rays taken on patients, which, to be honest, is surprising.
The fact that a Romanian hospital, especially a state hospital, uses artificial intelligence to improve the detection of possible diseases, injuries, etc., is surprising, and everything is done with the help of the XVision application.
The XVision application would detect pathologies that artificial intelligence already recognizes, and would prioritize those radiographs so that the doctors at the Timisoara County Hospital can see them before others.
Of course, the number of x-rays interpreted daily at the Timisoara County Hospital will increase thanks to the use of artificial intelligence in the XVision application, its creators say that we are talking about a percentage increase of 20%.
You can find more details in the press release below, but I reaffirm the fact that I am surprised that a state hospital in Romania is testing state-of-the-art technologies that a few months ago I was only reading about as being used in more civilized countries.
- "The first application for pulmonary X-rays in Romania based on artificial intelligence, introduced in a hospital in Romania;
- 20% more radiographs can be interpreted daily with XVision, the application flagging those with pathologies and prioritizing them for
- visualization by radiologists;
- The application will be further developed to be able to provide data for upper and lower limb x-rays.
The MedTech startup XVision introduces a medical platform that analyzes lung x-rays using artificial intelligence, for the first time in Romania, at the "Pius Brînzeu" County Emergency Clinical Hospital in Timișoara. The launch will take place on Thursday, January 30, in the hospital's amphitheater B, in an event open to doctors and the media.
The introduction of the platform in this hospital unit takes place after a one-year pilot project aimed at improving the algorithms used in the analysis of radiographs and streamlining the imaging interpretation process, by prioritizing cases with pathologies detected through the XVision platform . For this project, the XVision team worked with the radiologists of the hospital, coordinated by Professor Florin Bîrsășteanu.
The application developed by XVision, the first of its kind in Romania, allows a faster and easier analysis of X-rays, doctors thus being able to interpret up to 200 lung X-rays/day, 20% more than at present.
At the moment, the application generates data related only to the thoracic region, and will be developed to be able to provide information for X-rays of the upper and lower limbs, and later for CTs and MRIs.”
