CLASSICA - Supercomputing and AI: Potential for a Better Tomorrow
On May 30, 2024, Tomi Ilijas, Arctur´s CEO,delivered a compelling presentation titled "Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence: Potential for a Better Tomorrow" in Nova Gorica. The event was open to the public to showcase how state-of-the-art technology can drive research and development across various sectors, putting the emphasize in medicine, to foster innovation and contributing to social and economic growth.
"We want to engage in medicine to help society beat incurable diseases like cancer. Our beloved colleague died because of cancer, and we are now continuing the mission in his memory to develop new software and knowledge that could save lives and prevent cancer," said Ilijaš.
Arctur team as the partner in the project has taken on the complex challenge of developing and optimising AI technology for real-time surgical applications to support the main aim of CLASSICA project – deploying cancer classification AI technology in the operating theatre. Ilijaš presented the project activities and highlighted the importance of AI-technology for image recognition and classification of the tissues. Moreover, he shared the valuable experience Arctur Team had recently, as some team members were invited to participate in the live-testing surgery at Barmherzige Brüder Krankenhaus Graz in Graz, Austria, to do the first tests of CLASSICA-OR in the operating room.
CLASSICA-OR will perform a real-time AI-assessment of tissue perfusion. The system will retrieve operative video directly from the camera stack, perform fluorescence intensity analysis and provide a classification of the tissue type based on this analysis with a sensitivity and specificity >80%.
