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    Assessing Tumor Burden, Automatically

    Elba Etchebehere, MD, and Mariana Camacho collaborate and review patient data.

    4min
    Reinaldo José Lopes
    Published on June 21, 2018
    Siemens Healthineers’ syngo®.via and its Multi-foci Segmentation (MFS) tool make a huge difference when assessing tumor burden in a patient.

    Etchebehere, MD, prepares for a busy day ahead at her nuclear medicine clinic in Campinas, Brazil.

    Prognostic power

    There is a reliable body of research showing that an accurate assessment of tumor load has great prognostic power.

    Elba Etchebehere, MD, PhD
    Multi-foci Segmentation makes a huge difference, in terms of workflow, for assessing patients with widespread tumors.

    Enhanced workflow

    Etchebehere, MD, andswers last-minute questions before the start of a scan.

    As good as gold—or better

    The difference was just phenomenal, both in terms of the time we saved with the semi-automatic approach and in the reliability of the prognosis.

    Elba Etchebehere, MD, PhD
    “When you’re collaborating with other doctors, the best thing about the Multi-foci Segmentation tool is its potential for reproducibility,” Etchebehere argues
    Etchebehere, MD, answers last-minute questions before the start of a scan.
    By Reinaldo José Lopes
    Reinaldo José Lopes is a science and health writer at Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil’s leading daily newspaper, and is the author of several books.
    1. The statements by Siemens Healthineers customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.