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    OSIC and Siemens Healthineers Join Forces to Decipher Lung Diseases With AI

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    Published on March 19, 2019
    OSIC aims to enable earlier diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases.

    Siemens Healthineers is a co-founder of a consortium whose mission is to unravel lung diseases using artificial intelligence and to provide an earlier diagnosis to patients. Source: OSIC

    OSIC is a partnership of academia, industry and philanthropy fighting against interstitial lung diseases.

    Elizabeth Estes, Executive Director, Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC), Holland, Michigan, USA

    OSIC wants to shorten time-to-diagnosis for patients with interstitial lung diseases.

    Christian Wolfrum, head of New Business Development, Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany

    The OSIC consortium wants to use artificial intelligence to diagnose interstitial lung disease sooner.

    The concept of the Open Source Imaging Consortium. Source: OSIC

    1. UCL Respiratory, Rayne Institute (2013): https://www.breathingmatters.co.uk/2013/07/stark-facts-about-pulmonary-fibrosis/ Last accessed Feb 8th, 2019

    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.