Mayo Clinic and IBM establish medical imaging research center
Virtual Medical Worlds Monthly, February 11, 2008
Mayo Clinic and IBM have created the Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center, a collaborative research facility aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve the quality of patient care. The center is an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration announced in 2007, the results of which have given physicians the ability to register medical images up to 50-times quicker and provide critical diagnosis in seconds instead of hours.
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