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Omnyx Licenses Olympus Digital Pathology Patents

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., March 1, 2010
Olympus America Inc. has signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Omnyx, LLC, a joint venture of GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, allowing Omnyx to access an extensive portfolio of Olympus America patents in the field of virtual microscopy and digital pathology. More

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Omnyx for Strategic Leadership in Digital Pathology.

Pittsburgh, PA - November 30, 2009
“Over the last few years, a change in mindset has been evident in the pathology area, with increasing demands for automating the processes that take place in the laboratory – from improving the workflow to supporting better and faster care, and meeting the demands for advanced data management." More

How is Omnyx solving the throughput-quality-tradeoff for digital pathology?

Pittsburgh, PA - October 12, 2009
Accurate focusing is a critical challenge of whole slide imaging, primarily due to inherent tissue topology variability. Traditional line scanning and tile-based scanning systems are limited in their ability to acquire a high degree of focus points while still maintaining high throughput. More

Omnyx announces the award of a digital pathology patent to reduce scan times and increase image quality.

Pittsburgh, PA – September 14, 2009 – Omnyx, a joint venture of GE Healthcare and The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent no. 7576307 covering dual image sensors for rapid autofocusing. More

PBS Nightly Business Report,"Bill of Health": Digital Pathology

July 10, 2008
"Until now, pathology has meant shipping lots of glass slides back and forth between pathology offices. Now these same images can be streamed over the Internet, making them instantly available to any consulting pathologist." More

CNBC Squawk Box: Interview with Gene Cartwright

June 05, 2008
"If you add five biomarkers to one slide, and try to look at it under the microscope and discern what's going on, it's pretty difficult. But with a digitized image on a computer, looking at that same information you can readily make a decision." More

GE and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Launch New Company to Digitize and Revolutionize Disease Detection

Barrington, IL and Pittsburgh, PA – June 5, 2008 – Today, GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) announce the formation of a new company that will transition one of healthcare’s last manual diagnostic processes into the digital age. More

Bloomberg TV: “Starting Bell” - Interview with Gene Cartwright, CEO, Omnyx

June 05, 2008
"Radiology has been digitized for quite a while, as has cardiology. But the pathology market is much more difficult to digitize because the images are so much larger. They are about 10 times the size of a radiology image. So, a typical image of one glass slide could be up to 10,000 megabytes of data." More

GE Venture to Develop 'Virtual Microscope'

Wall Street Journal – June 5, 2008 More

UPMC, GE join forces for 'virtual' microscope

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – June 05, 2008 More

UPMC, GE partner in $40 million venture

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – June 5, 2008 More

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Omnyx Licenses Olympus Digital Pathology Patents

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Omnyx for Strategic Leadership in Digital Pathology.

How is Omnyx solving the throughput-quality-tradeoff for digital pathology?

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