The project enables real-time cancer tumor detection for the Tulane University project.
Toronto and Salt Lake City, 14 January 2025 - The University of Utah and Seal Storage Technology, a leading provider of verifiable decentralized cloud storage, are partnering to support Tulane University’s Cancer Moonshot project funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Seal will provide verifiable decentralized cloud storage to the University of Utah, which will support Tulane’s efforts to create MAGIC-SCAN, a machine-learning-assisted imaging tool that would identify cancer during surgery. MAGIC-SCAN is one of several projects funded by ARPA-H as part of the White House Cancer Moonshot. The Cancer Moonshot is aimed at preventing 4 million cancer deaths by 2047 and improving experiences of those affected by cancer.
Tulane’s MAGIC-SCAN will create immense amounts of data, creating a need for reliable, secure, and affordable data storage. Seal and the University of Utah are helping solve the technical computing challenges that will make the device possible. Tulane aims to create the device within five years with support from researchers at the University of Utah and the University of Georgia.
“Seal is honored to work on the Cancer Moonshot project with the University of Utah to provide verifiable decentralized cloud storage for Tulane University’s MAGIC-SCAN project. Decentralized cloud storage is an ideal solution for storing large amounts of lifesaving healthcare data from the project’s advanced AI-assisted imaging data analytics,” said Scott Doughman, Chief Business Officer, Seal Storage Technology.
Data access for the Moonshot project is made possible by an ongoing partnership between Seal and the University of Utah using OpenViSUS technology supported by the cyberinfrastructure developed by the National Science Data Fabric.
“It is exciting to work with Seal to develop FASTMAP (Fast, Accelerated Support for Training MAchine learning models on Petascale data), the cyberinfrastructure needed to make MAGIC-SCAN a success. With a secure, decentralized data access model, FASTMAP will allow team members from all institutions to work together on ML model co-design and training for rapid cancer detection and visualization,” said Valerio Pascucci, NSDF Principal Investigator, Professor at Kahlert School of Computing, and Director of the Center for Extreme Data Management and Visualization (CEDMAV) at the University of Utah.
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