GE and NVIDIA Join Forces to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Healthcare
November 26 2017 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
- New generation of intelligent medical
devices will use world’s most advanced AI platform with the goal of
improving patient care
- GE Healthcare is the first medical
device company to use the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC)
- New Revolution Frontier CT, powered by
NVIDIA, is two times faster for image processing, proving
performance acceleration has begun
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) today announced
they will deepen their 10-year partnership to bring the most
sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) to GE Healthcare’s
500,000 imaging devices globally and accelerate the speed at which
healthcare data can be processed.
The scope of the partnership, detailed today at the 103rd annual
meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA),
includes the announcement of the new NVIDIA-powered Revolution
Frontier CT, advancements to the Vivid E95 4D Ultrasound and
development of GE Healthcare’s Applied Intelligence analytics
platform.
The new CT system in the Revolution Family is two times faster
in imaging processing than its predecessor, due to its use of
NVIDIA’s AI computing platform. The Revolution Frontier is FDA
cleared and expected to deliver better clinical outcomes in liver
lesion detection and kidney lesion characterization because of its
speed – potentially reducing the need for unnecessary follow-ups,
benefitting patients with compromised renal function and reducing
non-interpretable scans with Gemstone Spectral Imaging Metal
Artefact Reduction (GSI MAR).
“Our partnership with GE Healthcare brings together great
expertise in medical instruments and AI to create a new generation
of intelligent instruments that can dramatically improve patient
care,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
NVIDIA, which has helped pioneer the spread of AI across a
growing range of fields, including self-driving cars, robotics and
video analytics, is working with GE Healthcare to spread its
application in healthcare. GPU-accelerated deep learning solutions
can be used to design more sophisticated neural networks for
healthcare and medical applications—from real-time medical
condition assessment to point-of-care interventions to predictive
analytics for clinical decision-making. For patients, the
partnership aims to drive lower radiation doses, faster exam times
and higher quality medical imaging.
GE Healthcare and NVIDIA also announced the following at RSNA
today:
- NVIDIA Platform Powers 4D Ultrasound
Visualization: The Vivid E95 4D Ultrasound System, on display
at RSNA, uses NVIDIA GPUs to provide fast, accurate visualization
and quantification while streamlining workflows across the cSound™
imaging platform. NVIDIA GPUs accelerate reconstruction and
visualization of blood flow and improve 2D and 4D imaging for Echo
Lab and Interventional deployments.
- New GE Healthcare Applied
Intelligence Powered by NVIDIA Technology: Modules of the new
analytics platform will use NVIDIA GPUs, the NVIDIA ® CUDA ®
parallel computing platform and the NVIDIA GPU Cloud container
registry to accelerate the creation, deployment and consumption of
deep learning algorithms in new healthcare analytic applications
that will be seamlessly integrated into clinical and operational
workflows and equipment.
“Healthcare is changing at remarkable speed, and the
technologies that will transform the industry should reflect that
pace,” said Kieran Murphy, President and CEO of GE
Healthcare. “By partnering with NVIDIA, GE Healthcare will be
able to deliver devices of the future – intelligent machines
capable of empowering providers to improve the speed and accuracy
of diagnoses for patients around the world.”
The average hospital generates 50 petabytes of data annually,
through medical images, clinical charts and sensors, as well as
operational and financial sources. Yet, less than 3 percent of that
data is actionable, tagged or analyzed. GE Healthcare and NVIDIA
will harness more of this data by combining powerful applications
built with lighthouse customers, best-in-class medical devices and
the fast processing speeds of GPUs – all to make AI a reality in
healthcare.
The full GE Healthcare RSNA 2017 press kit can be found
here.
About GE Healthcare
Harnessing data and analytics across hardware, software and
biotech, GE Healthcare is the $18 billion healthcare business of GE
(NYSE:GE). As a leading provider of medical imaging equipment, with
a track record of more than 100 years in the industry and more than
50,000 employees across 100 countries, we transform healthcare by
delivering better outcomes for providers and patients. Follow us on
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About NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the
growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics
and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep
learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the
GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars
that can perceive and understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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