Ion Endoluminal System
Benefits
Enables detection of lung cancer in earliest stages; reaches previously inaccessible lung nodules for biopsy without long delays; uses flexible robotic catheter to navigate deep into lungs; provides faster diagnoses, quicker access to treatment, and improved outcomes while reducing patient anxiety and uncertainty.
Details
- Tool name
- Ion Endoluminal System
- Organisation
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Other
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Computer Vision Machine Learning Other
- Usecase
- Health AI
- Origin
- NHS
- Owning team
- Wythenshawe Hospital
- Date added
- 17 September 2024
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Wythenshawe Hospital is one of the first in Europe to adopt the Ion Endoluminal System, building on the success of the Greater Manchester Lung Health Check programme which has diagnosed over 600 early-stage lung cancers. [Source]