After our major victory in Munich at the MICCAI competition, we’re becoming increasingly popular in the media. It’s all thanks to our system that recognizes and diagnoses brain lesions.
The inspiration for the program came from a family tragedy.
Two years ago, doctors discovered a tangerine-sized brain tumor in 6-year-old Kuba. A biopsy was taken and diagnosed as an aggressive, stage 3 tumor. The child was given chemotherapy. Simultaneously, the biopsy was sent to another diagnostic center. Two weeks later, it turned out the error had been made. The tumor was benign, stage 1. “Perhaps the doctor made a diagnostic error, and I’ve been trying to help with the diagnosis for two years,” says Piotr Krajewski, CEO of Stermedia and Kuba’s uncle. He decided to work with a group of computer scientists to create a brain tumor detection program.
We still have a lot of work ahead of us. Currently, the program detects two types of brain tumors, of which there are over 30. We are already working closely with doctors at the Lower Silesian Oncology Center to improve it.
Perhaps in the future, biopsies will be unnecessary, thanks to programs like ours.
You can view more materials in Polish about us below
http://wroclaw.tvp.pl/22545331/07112015-1830
http://teleexpress.tvp.pl/22554125/wroclawscy-informatycy-stworzyli-program-do-walki-z-rakiem
http://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2015-11-22/komputery-pomagaja-w-diagnozowaniu-raka/