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Biotech / Medical : ACMI - Accumed Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: george who wrote (1255)	1/22/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Sigmund	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1894

My read of the conference call was that ACMI was really talking about automated primary screening. The way the vision of ACMI technology was described, ranking samples from most likely to least likely to be of interest, is the same as the way AutoPap works. But that aside, I think you will find that these stocks do tend to move in the same direction. Since October or so it has been all downhill for the sector. Why? Because the sector has been tarred by controversy. I believe that if NPTH gets approval, all the stocks will go up. If NPTH gets turned down, all the stocks will go down. ACMI may move the least either way but that is because the company is in other things than Pap Tests. By the way, NPTH has considered expanding the range of specimens on which they would apply AutoPap to things other than Pap Tests. Years ago I worked for Kennecott Copper and we were looking for manganese nodules on the pacific floor. They used a device that trailed from a boat had a camera and there was a computer that identified and counted nodules. Also in mining, when you have a conveyer belt you need to remove pieces of debris other than the ore to avoid damange to equipment. A robot arm does this aided by machine vision. In classical factory automation, fabrication or assembly, a robot arm needs to figure out where the tool should go. Sensors such as machine vision are used. tolerances can be very fine. Today on highways the automatic toll system has to figure out if it is a passenger car or an 18 wheeler...more machine vision but not too precise. I understand that hip replacement operations can be done better by a robot than a human surgeon. Eye operations I understand may be robotized. Identifying and classifying cells is no different than any other type of machine vision.