Hologic teams up with Google Cloud to enhance cervical cancer detection – Worcester Business Journal

Marlborough medical device company Hologic will soon integrate Google Clouds machine learning technologies into its Genius Digital Diagnostics system, which helps doctors screen for cervical cancer, Hologic announced on Monday.

The multi-year partnership is expected to increase actionable insights from cytology slides, for cytotechnologists and pathologists, according to a press release from Hologic. Google Cloud is expected to provide secure data architecture to further enhance what the Hologic system is capable of doing.

Through this collaboration with Hologic, we are helping to evolve digital diagnostics by complementing their expertise in diagnostics and AI with our expertise in machine learning, said Joe Miles, managing director of Google Cloud Healthcare and Life Sciences, in a statement.

Genius Digital Diagnostics is currently CE-marked for European use, but is not available in the United States.

Financial terms of the collaboration were not disclosed.

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