Published Siriraj Hospital will be the first hospital in Southeast Asia to adopt two NVIDIA DGX A100 systems for medical research and clinical applications. Officially launched in May 2020, the NVIDIA DGX A100 is the world’s first AI system built on the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU.
Department of Radiology, Siriraj Hospital is the first in Thailand to explore research and clinical application of AI on radiology images, including plain radiography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasonography. Every day, the amount of data is massive, making it difficult for radiologists to analyze and interpret in a timely manner required for clinical efficiency.
Siriraj Hospital leveraged AI in a solution that includes two NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, two workstations with NVIDIA V100 GPUs, six workstations with NVIDIA P6000 GPUs, as well as NVIDIA Clara, CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT.
The new GPU is 40 times faster and the accuracy is increased. The CPU is not practical for research and clinical applications. Through the NVIDIA GPUs, the clinical workflows can proceed smoothly without any bottlenecks. In emergency situations, faster interpretation of images can help doctors make better treatment decisions to save patients’ lives!
NVIDIA Clara is enabling hospitals to innovate and accelerate the journey to precision medicine. The decision by Siriraj Hospital to invest in an NVIDIA-based AI solution empowers its radiologists to make faster and more accurate decisions that in turn will save more lives, as well as create a blueprint that healthcare facilities in the region can use to adopt leading-edge technologies that will dramatically improve patient care and outcomes.
Source: Healthcare IT News
