Pressure to cure debilitating diseases and skyrocketing healthcare costs have created an opportunity for thoughtful deployment of automation. Manual inspection of microscopic cells in a lab, or a CT scan overview a minute before a patient meeting challenges efficiency and quality tradeoffs.

Legacy vision systems have also fallen short. It’s nearly impossible to create an IF-THEN statement for every pathology variation, cell type, or dust particle on a vaccine vial. Machine learning and computer vision help enterprises avoid the pitfalls of hard-coded rules by learning through examples instead.