Singapore, Jan. 31 -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), US-based medical technology company, and Techcyte, a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital diagnostics, have announced a strategic collaboration agreement to offer an AI-based algorithm that guides cytologists and pathologists to efficiently and effectively identify evidence of cervical cancer and precancer using whole-slide imaging.

The agreement enables BD to deliver a complete solution that aims to reduce the potential for human error and enable greater throughput, so that labs can achieve their results with greater standardisation, reproducibility, and efficiency from a Pap test, also known as a Pap smear.

Traditionally, Pap tests have been conducted by t...