IBM And Mayo Clinic Announce Aneurysm Detection Innovation

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic have developed a new method of detecting brain aneurysms using analytic technology with better speed and accuracy than existing forms of detection.

IBM and Mayo announced that the new method has a 95% accuracy rate in detecting aneurysms versus a 70% accuracy rate for manual interpretation.

IBM and the Mayo Clinic began collaborating together on other projects in 2001, when IBM aided the Mayo Clinic's data organization. They have since collaborated on other projects which led to the current innovation.

IBM has been has been developing applications to give it a bigger presence in the cloud computing market. The next step is to make the technological innovations that are being developed with the Mayo Clinic and offer them to other hospitals and medical institutions via cloud computing.