Microscopic Visualization of Prostate Cancer
A new accessible image analysis tool for direct microvascular mapping to pinpoint prostate cancer.
Microscopic Visualization of Prostate Cancer
A new accessible image analysis tool for direct microvascular mapping to pinpoint prostate cancer.
About Less Grey
We are a research group in Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) working on advanced diagnosis for prostate cancer patients using image analysis software that enables microscopic visualization of the organ.
Increased Diagnostic Accuracy
Our image analysis software provides highly accurate images of the prostate’s vasculature for clinicians.
Rapid Deployment
Our technology works on clinical ultrasound equipment and can be performed in less than 20 minutes.
Microscopic Visualisation
Our technology can provide microscopic visualisation of the prostate.
Understanding Prostate Cancer
Understanding Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the second biggest killer of men and has the highest incidents among men above 50 years of age. Current diagnosis is inadequate to detect all clinically significant cancers and often leads to invasive procedures that could otherwise be avoided. Therefore, a large proportion of patients are put into unnecessary risks and increased overall healthcare costs.
Prostate Cancer
Did You Know?
The PSA blood test is used for detecting prostate cancer, but it is not very reliable. MRI is the standard imaging method for visualization. Still, up to 20% of the cancers are missed and up to 60% undergo unnecessary invasive procedures. Moreover, MRI scans are expensive, not available in all geographies and significantly delays patient management. Finally, MRI scans are not tolerated by all patients.
See Less Grey in Action
Watch our video to understand how we can identify areas of tumour growth in the prostate at near microscopic levels of detail
Less Grey Technology
Understanding The Technology
Less Grey technology processes clinical contrast enhanced ultrasound data and provides direct super-resolution images of the prostate with up to 20-fold increase in resolution compared to the state-of-the-art. Clinicians can then easily identify diseased regions of interest and perform the clinical assessment. The resulting decrease in patient death and invasive procedures comes with and overall reduction in healthcare cost and patient waiting.
Stage 1 - Patient Scanning
The patient is prepared for scanning by the medical staff. The duration of the data acquisition is approximately 3 min.
Stage 2 - Data Processing & Image Display
The ultrasound data are then post-processed by our software and the super-resolution images of the prostate are displayed.
Stage 3 - Clinical Assessment
The clinician evaluates the person’s condition from the Less Grey image and provides input to patient management: triaging for biopsy, assist biopsy guidance and/or inform/aid treatment planning.
Meet The Team
George
Mairead
Jacqui
Lachlan
Vassilis
Weiping
Get In Touch
If you would like to learn more about our project, please complete our contact form to get in touch with the Less Grey team.