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Article: MGH and NEC Start On-Site Evaluation of NEC Cancer Diagnosis Assistance System e-Pathologist at MGH.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced it has started a joint evaluation of NEC's cancer diagnosis assistance system, e-Pathologist, at Massachusetts General Hospital (Headquarters: Boston, MA, USA; President: Peter L. Slavin, MD; MGH) (see also NEC Corporation).
The e-Pathologist system uses "machine intelligence" to detect tissue and cell features and make quantitative measurements of key structures in digitized images of slides of tissue sections stained conventionally with Hematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) or subjected to immunohistochemistry reagents to assist pathologists in making decisions that may contribute to the clinical management of cancer.
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