Triage for COVID-19 Using AI on Chest X-rays
Thirona is specialized in tuberculosis (TB) screening and with its proven CAD4TB solution has screened over 6 million people in 40 countries. We optimised CAD4TB to triage COVID-19 suspects and are launching this solution free-of-charge.
Thirona is present at the Saudi Opthalmology Symposium
We are present at the Saudi Opthalmology conference held from 12-14 March in the Hilton Ryadh Hotel. Come by to meet us and learn more about our Retina solution RetCAD.
Happy birthday to us!
Thirona became 6 years old today, so it was time to celebrate with some cake.
EFRO subsidy to Thirona, RadboudUMC en Quirem
Thirona is in a collaboration with the RadboudUMC and Quirem in the project Radiology of the Future, sponsored by the EFRO (this article is only in Dutch).
Our LungQ software picks up progression in emphysema and air trapping
A study recently published in Radiology shows Thirona's lung quantification software picks up progression in emphysema and air trapping over 5 years in smokers with and without COPD.
Thirona is present at the TECH020 fair
On February 20th, Thirona will be present at the TECH020 CareerFair for Data Science & AI presented by ADS. Come by to meet us, know more about the company and our vacancies.
RetCAD validation and approval
RetCAD is validated in a scientific study and is also approved for clinical use in Singapore.
In silico heaven
In modern medicine it is more and more important that your clinical trial works and if a device is being implanted it will not be rejected by the body. For this, extensive testing is necessary, however, with the help of computer chips fewer animals and people are needed. In the following article by Gemma Church, this is discussed and RetCAD is also mentioned.
Thirona starts a collaboration with UKE
Thirona will start a pilot study in collaboration with Dr. Toam Katz from the Medical Center Hamburg-Essendorf (UKE). In this study, fundus images will be evaluated by experts from UKE and by the RetCAD software from Thirona. The results of both will be compared to each other.
Rudolfs presented at the COPDGene 2019 fall meeting in Boston
Last week, Rudolfs Latisenko, data scientist at Thirona, presented our deep learning approach for reducing dose-related noise on low dose CT at the COPDGene 2019 fall meeting in Boston. This model was developed in collaboration with Stephen Humphries and David Lynch from National Jewish Health.
Thirona in de Gelderlander
Local newspaper "de Gelderlander" visited Thirona to talk about our research collaboration with ThiraLab. This resulted in the following article (the article is in Dutch).
Thirona in the news
Thirona has been in the news recently with articles about ThiraLab in FMT Gezondheidszorg and de Brug Nijmegen (both in Dutch) and articles about RetCAD in The Journal of mHealth and Optician
Thirona is present at the ERS
We are present at the ERS conference from 29 September until 2 October. Our booth is at V19, so come by to learn more about our ChestCT solutions. So come take a flyer and a pen!
Opening of Thira Lab
The Thira Lab, a collaboration between Thirona, Delf Imaging Systems and the Radboud UMC, has been opened! In this lab 6 PhD candidates and 3 post-docs will work on AI research for medical imaging with a focus on CT scans of the lungs, and Xrays of the retina and chest.