title: Canadian firm's software helps physicians diagnose fetal abnormalities.
abstract: An Ottawa company has developed CD-ROM software that helps physicians diagnose fetal abnormalities. Suspicious prenatal ultrasound images can be compared, within seconds, with a collection of moving and still ultrasound images, along with text descriptions of 400 anomalies contained in a program called Platypus.
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authors.lastname: Spurgeon
mesh_terms: D016251:CD-ROM; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal