GE Healthcare and Optellum Join Forces to Advance Lung Cancer Diagnosis with Artificial Intelligence
GE Healthcare and Optellum have signed a letter of intent to collaborate on precision diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. This partnership aims to address challenges in diagnosing lung nodules, which often present indeterminate cancer risks. Optellum's FDA-cleared AI software, the Virtual Nodule Clinic, enhances diagnostic accuracy, allowing for faster and more informed treatment decisions. GE Healthcare will work with Optellum to integrate this AI solution into its existing platforms, potentially transforming early lung cancer care.
- Collaboration with Optellum aims to enhance lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.
- Optellum's Virtual Nodule Clinic is FDA-cleared, improving diagnosis and treatment efficiency.
- Integration with GE's Edison platform could streamline clinician workflows.
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A clinician and research scientist evaluate lung nodules using Optellum software (Photo: Business Wire)
Together, the companies are seeking to address one of the largest challenges in the diagnosis of lung cancer, helping providers to determine the malignancy of a lung nodule: a suspicious lesion that may be benign or cancerous. The majority of incidentally detected pulmonary nodules present an indeterminate cancer risk, and are incredibly challenging for clinicians to diagnose and manage, leading to delayed treatment for cancer patients and invasive procedures on healthy people.
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The clinician’s AI-assisted diagnosis of malignancy may enable patients whose nodules are not malignant to avoid unnecessary and aggressive procedures such as biopsy and surgical resection, while expediting the diagnostic process, and enabling the right treatment to start earlier. This has the potential to provide patients with personalized diagnosis and treatment plans, enabling lung cancer patients to be treated at the earliest possible stage when survival rates are the highest.
“The precise diagnosis of lung cancer can greatly improve patient prognosis,” said
“This collaboration is a major step forward for Optellum and the field of thoracic oncology at large,” commented Václav Potěšil, PhD, Founder and Chief Business Officer of Optellum. “GE’s vast clinical network can accelerate deployment of Optellum’s platform and could enable a revolutionary redefinition of early lung cancer treatment for clinicians and patients around the world.”
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About Optellum
Optellum is a commercial-stage lung health company providing Artificial Intelligence decision support software that assists physicians in early diagnosis and optimal treatment for their patients. The company was founded so that every lung disease patient is diagnosed and treated at the earliest possible stage, when chances of cure are the highest. Optellum’s roadmap extends beyond lung cancer diagnosis and treatment to other deadly diseases of the lungs, including interstitial lung disease (ILD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Optellum has headquarters at the
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