As many of you know, our team is deeply passionate about pushing the boundaries of veterinary research. We strive to differentiate ourselves by being transparent and offering as many open-source tools as possible. We also want to assure the veterinary community of our commitment to publication, so you can see firsthand what we’ve been working on.

Last month, we submitted an article to Veterinary & Comparative Oncology that evaluates the use of an open-source Named Entity Recognizer (NER). Named entity recognition is a form of language modelling that categorizes entities (words or strings of words) into groups such as diagnoses or medications. This enables the development of tools that can effectively analyze medical text and provide context to words or sentences. The tool we evaluated, called BioEpiNER, was originally developed by a group at the University of Toronto. Our research explores whether these tools, initially trained on human medical text, can be applied to veterinary text. Our paper is still under review, so I won’t reveal the results just yet, but we hope it will have a significant impact!

We are also continuing our collaboration with both the University of Guelph and the team at ScanLand, focusing on 3D imaging of oral tumours using LiDAR technology—straight from your iPhone! We aim to extend this technology into an application for clinicians and patient families for remote clinical trial monitoring, along with other machine learning-based tools for clinicians, which we’ll be sharing soon.

We are thrilled to announce a collaboration with Scribenote for ANI.ML Health members! We firmly believe in connecting our community, especially with those who share our values and vision.

As part of this collaboration, our teams will be offering special pricing for users who utilize both platforms. A special discount will be provided for the first 10 consultations for Scribenote users on their ANI.ML Health consults. Veterinarians using our platform will also be eligible for special pricing on Scribenote.

For our specialty consultants, access to Scribenote will be available immediately for cases referred to you. We hope that tools like Scribenote will help improve the efficiency of medical reports and make the process smoother and easier.

A big shout out to the Scribenote team—we’re really excited to be working together in this space!

Our team is working tirelessly this week to finalize the many features we promised. Notification routing and handling of revisit consultations, both for the end user and specialist, are our top priorities. We’ll be entering the testing phase by the end of this week in preparation for launch 🚀.

We also updated our website this week to include a user walkthrough for veterinary teams. If you want a sneak peek at what things look like and how a typical consultation workflow goes, check it out here.

That’s all I can say for now, but stay tuned for more!

-Chris