ImageIQ, Inc., the Imaging Contract Research Organization developed through Cleveland Clinic Innovations, announced today that The Griffith Laboratory at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its partner laboratory within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART) have selected ImageIQ to provide customized image analysis and software engineering services for several of their large-scale research projects. ImageIQ provides imaging analytics, software engineering and visualization services for research, medical device and pharmaceutical organizations.

ImageIQ will be using its extensive software library and engineering expertise to develop highly custom-tailored analysis tools which produce objective and quantified data from the imaging work performed in The Griffith and SMART Labs. Additionally, ImageIQ will lead the team responsible for customizing and deploying the high-throughput imaging hardware and software within each of the labs.

“We selected ImageIQ because of their history of excellence in providing application-specific image-based analysis for the research community,” said Linda Griffith, Ph.D. S.E.T.I. Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “The sophistication of our tissue engineering research requires equally sophisticated image analysis and visualization. Pairing our research staff with the ImageIQ scientists optimizes our ability to deliver robust quantitative results from every one of our experiments.”

The Griffith and SMART Labs will leverage the decades of life science research experience that the ImageIQ team garnered from its tenure inside Cleveland Clinic’s Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center.

“We are honored to be selected by such a prestigious group as The Griffith Labs at MIT and SMART,” said Dr. Amit Vasanji, Chief Technology Officer at ImageIQ. “We provide a unique combination of image analysis, software engineering and biomedical expertise that will support the research and discovery efforts of the MIT and SMART Griffith Labs. We are eager to apply our unique approach to life science image acquisition and analysis developed over the past 10 years at Cleveland Clinic to further enable the research conducted within Dr. Griffith’s Labs at MIT and SMART.”

Dr. Griffith also observed, “As we create more complex life science technologies, our use of imaging continues to increase. The only cost-effective and thorough way to analyze large volumes of multi-dimensional image data is through automated and custom-tailored software. Without the ImageIQ team involved, trying to perform the analysis manually with off-the-shelf software would either be impossible or present an enormous time and cost burden for my team.”

About ImageIQ

ImageIQ is an Imaging Contract Research Organization (ICRO) that combines software engineering with biomedical and imaging expertise to provide quantitative visual analysis that enhances R&D and product efficacy/safety testing for research, medical device and pharmaceutical organizations. Incubated within Cleveland Clinic for the better part of a decade, ImageIQ provides customized image analytics and reporting, delivering objective quantitative evidence that speeds time to discovery and market entry, reduces internal overhead and improves grant proposal attractiveness and fundability. By advancing the speed of research, ImageIQ customers can extend their expertise and abilities and complete work quickly, allowing innovative staff members to focus on creative solutions to research.

About The Griffith Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Griffith Lab is an internationally known biological and mechanical engineering research lab at MIT, specializing in biomaterials and scaffold research for application micro-scale liver and bone marrow tissue engineering. The Griffith Lab has dozens of distinguished researchers as alumni and has made numerous contributions to the field of regenerative medicine, including its significant involvement in the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM). In collaboration with the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART) as well as many other prominent research institutions, the Griffith Lab is at the forefront of tissue engineering research.