December 19, 2022 – Ibex Medical Analytics, the leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, announced the live deployment by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center of Galen™ Prostate, an AI-based solution that supports pathologists during cancer diagnosis, at the UPMC network.
The Galen™ suite of solutions from Ibex is used in routine clinical practice at laboratories, hospitals and health systems worldwide. Prostate biopsies at UPMC are now digitized and analyzed by Galen Prostate’s AI algorithm ahead of pathologists’ review, providing them with multiple diagnostic insights and decision support tools that can help improve the quality of cancer diagnosis and reduce turnaround time.
UPMC previously published their pioneering work with Galen Prostate in The Lancet Digital Health, demonstrating very high accuracy rates for Galen in prostate cancer detection as well as in the detection and assessment of other clinically relevant features such as Gleason grading, perineural invasion and tumor sizing. UPMC deployed Galen 3.0, Ibex’s latest software release that incorporates the very latest evolution of Ibex’s AI algorithms, improved user experience and Ibex’s open API (Application Programming Interface). Galen’s prostate algorithm was trained on enriched data sets that included rare prostatic malignancies and can calculate a Gleason score, tumor size and percentage for each cancer slide, which may help pathologists save review time and reduce subjectivity.
The Galen suite of solutions is the most widely deployed AI technology in pathology, supporting pathologists worldwide with augmented diagnostic capabilities during diagnosis of breast, prostate, and gastric biopsies. Improving the diagnostic accuracy, reducing turnaround time, boosting productivity and improving user experience for pathologists, Galen has demonstrated excellent outcomes across multiple clinical studies performed in different pathology labs and diagnostic workflows.