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In a major expansion of the NVIDIA Clara healthcare platform, NVIDIA has announced breakthrough performance, key partnerships and new capabilities to help the medical community better track, test and treat COVID-19.
Combining artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing, the platform helps healthcare researchers, technology solutions providers and hospitals tackle the pandemic faster and in new ways:
● Record-breaking genomics sequencing speed — NVIDIA Clara Parabricks computational
genomics software, which is available via a free, 90-day license to COVID-19 researchers,
achieved a new speed record — analysing the whole human genome DNA sequence in
under 20 minutes.
● AI models for disease detection — Available today, AI models developed jointly with the
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) can help researchers study the severity of COVID-19 from
chest CT scans and develop new tools to better understand, measure and detect
infections.
● NVIDIA Clara Guardian for smart hospitals — Launched today, NVIDIA Clara Guardian
uses intelligent video analytics and automatic speech recognition technologies so a new
generation of smart hospitals can monitor vital signs while limiting staff
exposure.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has supercharged the collaboration of technology, research and the
healthcare industry to develop new computing solutions that accelerate the understanding of the spread, scale and severity of this disease,” said Kimberly Powell, VP of Healthcare at
NVIDIA.
“Never before has there been such a critical need to apply the best AI technology and
accelerated computing to every facet of healthcare, and its effects will be felt widely beyond this
pandemic and across healthcare going forward.”
Running on just-announced NVIDIA A100 GPUs, NVIDIA Clara Parabricks achieved a record for
DNA sequencing analysis of the whole genome — slashing analysis time to just under 20 minutes.
NVIDIA also introduced GPU-accelerated ribonucleic acid (RNA)-sequencing pipelines that return results in less than 2 hours, giving researchers critical insights into patient susceptibility to disease, its progression, and response to treatment.
Accelerating genomics analysis makes way for creating larger, high-quality datasets in genomics.
A newly announced population genome programme by Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health is
using the Group 42 Artemis supercomputer powered by NVIDIA DGX systems and NVIDIA Clara
Parabricks to build a representative reference genome specific to UAE citizens and incorporate
genomics analysis into a comprehensive programme for improved clinical care.
To make it easier for users to benefit from NVIDIA Clara Parabricks acceleration on the cloud,
NVIDIA is partnering with the DNAnexus enterprise genomics cloud platform to seamlessly
provision, run, and return results.
New AI models
Providing researchers an additional tool in the battle against COVID-19, NVIDIA released a set of
AI models that can help researchers detect and study infected patients through chest CT scan
data. The models are immediately available in the latest release of Clara Imaging on the NGC
software hub.
Jointly developed by NVIDIA’s applied research team and clinicians and data scientists at the NIH
through a cooperative research and development agreement, the models used data from
locations with high rates of COVID-19 infections, including China, Italy, Japan, and the US.
The AI models were built using the NVIDIA Clara application framework for medical imaging.
NVIDIA Clara contains domain-specific AI training and deployment workflow tools that allowed
NVIDIA and NIH to develop the models in under three weeks.
Building robust AI models is a global priority but sharing data is still challenging across global
borders. Now underway is a new multinational COVID-19 federated learning initiative led by
NVIDIA and Mass General Brigham to expand COVID-19 AI models to x-ray imaging that enables
local adaptation without sharing any patient data, protecting patient privacy.
Helping hospitals on the frontline
Dozens of solution partners, including AnyVision, BriefCam, Care.ai, Chooch AI, Deep Vision,
Diycam, IntelliSite, Malong Technologies, Ouva, SafelyYou, SAFR, SmartCow, TeiaCare, Tonbo
Imaging, and Whiteboard Coordinator are already deploying NVIDIA Clara Guardian-based
solutions in over 50 hospitals and 10,000 hospitals rooms worldwide.
The new NVIDIA Clara Guardian application framework enables an ecosystem of
AI solutions for hospital public safety and patient monitoring by transforming everyday sensors
into smart sensors. Critical use cases include automated body temperature screening, protective
masks detection, safe social distancing, and remote patient monitoring.
Partners across the ecosystem are using pretrained models and transfer learning to develop and
deploy AI applications that fuse vision, speech, and natural language processing. Deployment
with NVIDIA EGX AI Edge platform gives solution providers the ability to securely deploy and
manage fleets of devices throughout a hospital environment.
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