Artificial intelligence opens entirely new horizons for image analysis. In the latest versions of Ikaros, MetaSystems has implemented Deep Neural Network (DNN) based artificial intelligence that greatly facilitates the processing of metaphase images for karyotyping. MetaSystems is proud to announce that our innovative DNN-based technology has now received a patent entitled ‘Methods for Automated Chromosome Analysis’” (U.S. patent no. 10,991,098).

Researchers led by dermatologist Raffaele Gianotti of the University of Milan and pathologist Prof. Massimo Barberis, director of the Molecular Pathology Unit at Institute of European Oncology in Milan, report evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infection in an Italian patient.