This morning I was reading The Health Care Blog, as usual, and came a across a most interesting post: The Radiology Report.

I thought this phrase was intriguing: "'Normal' is one of the most powerful words a radiologist can use".  Which of course begs the question, how does the Radiologist get to "normal"?  They use their training and experience.  And they do this all day long, with case after case, normal, normal, normal.

But what if they could hit a single button to quickly search a vast reference library of exceptional cases just to be sure.  If there are no strong correlations, great, the case is "normal", nothing to see here, move along.  Every once in a while - perhaps every once in a great while - they might get a hit back which triggers a thought.  And every once in a while that hit might cause a "normal" to be reported as a possible "not-normal", perhaps saving a patient’s life.

That is the value proposition behind eyesFinder for Radiology.

I am excited about many many of the possible applications of visual search, but I'm especially driven by the possibilities in healthcare.  We've been working with Leica for two years on a decision support tool for Pathology - now being field-tested - and are actively seeking partners in Radiology as well.  So that 'Normal' can be even more powerful :)