Proscia Brings Artificial Intelligence to Cancer Research and Diagnostics on AWS Using Concentriq

Software company Proscia developed a digital pathology software solution, called Concentriq. Running natively on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Concentriq can scale to support the most complex pathology operations. It also serves as the foundation for labs looking to apply computational pathology—a branch of pathology that uses artificial intelligence (AI), not subjective observation, to analyze digitized pathology images—into their workflows. Concentriq also integrates with third-party solutions, so that it can pull patient data from laboratory information systems and images from any slide scanner. Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—an object storage service that offers industry-leading
scalability, data availability, security, and performance—Concentriq users can manage all their pathology data in the cloud with high scalability while keeping costs under control. 

To support the highly variable demands of digital pathology, Concentriq runs on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), which makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. To power the workload, Concentriq uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), which provides secure, resizable compute capacity. And through Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling—which makes it easy to automatically add or remove Amazon EC2 instances—Proscia can maintain application availability under the vast and varying workloads of pathologists. Concentriq works in conjunction with an organization’s existing AWS footprint, simplifying the implementation process.

On AWS, Concentriq provides researchers and pathologists with a single interface for reading images, rendering diagnoses, managing imaging data, and collaborating instantly and remotely with experts around the world. “Proscia’s mission is to perfect cancer diagnosis with intelligent software that changes the way that the world practices pathology,” says Coleman Stavish, cofounder and chief technology officer of Proscia. “AWS provides customers an efficient solution right out of the box.” 

Proscia’s customers range from 10 of the world’s largest biopharma companies to health systems, commercial labs, and leading academic medical centers. One customer, the Joint Pathology Center, delivers pathology consultation for the US government and maintains a tissue repository of more than 55 million glass slides for biomedical research. Due to the special requirements of working with a federal entity, Proscia uses AWS GovCloud (US), which gives government customers and their partners flexibility to architect secure cloud solutions that align with compliance regimes. “Advanced software—coupled with flexible, scalable, and secure information technology infrastructure—are required to build the future of pathology,” Stavish says. By building on AWS, “Proscia . . . delivers solutions that help our customers realize this vision.”