Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Bloodborne Bacteria

Fluid Imaging Technologies and the University of Colorado Boulder have recently entered an exclusive research agreement to determine whether the University's artificial intelligence software can identify bloodborne bacteria. The collaboration will establish training set data from microscopy images for the top ten most wanted bacterial strains causing blood infections, and then train a computer to identify the bacteria automatically in tandem with Fluid Imaging Technologies' FlowCam oil immersion flow imaging microscopes. We spoke with Kent Peterson, CEO, Fluid Imaging Technologies, to learn more about the collaboration, the technologies involved, and how they could impact patients. Anna MacDonald (AM): Can you give us a little background to how the collaboration between the University of Colorado and Fluid Imaging Technologies has come about? Kent Peterson (KP): Dr. Ted Randolph had been using the FlowCam instrumentation for years.