MedTech
High Throughput Tissue Dissection
Sioux acts as the R&D department of Xyall. By using its multi-disciplinary expertise, Sioux develops and produces the entire range of high throughput dissection systems and easy-to-use tabletop systems.
Xyall digitizes and automates the tissue dissection workflow to help pathologists obtain more reliable molecular diagnostic test results.
The customer’s challenge
Tissue dissection is a labor-intensive and error-prone process. Pathologists mark a region of interest on slides. Skilled laboratory technicians manually scrape the tissue to put it in small tubes for further processing. Xyall accelerates this workflow with an automated high throughput tissue dissection system.
Sioux’s contribution
Sioux developed the entire system with the help of their mechatronics, mechanics, electronics, software and mathware engineers. Together they delivered state-of-the-art technology solutions in image registration, robotics and workflow optimization software. In addition to the development, Sioux also produced the systems in its own assembly plant.
Result
The Tissector HT is the world's fastest and most accurate tissue dissection system with a high throughput of 80 slides per hour with an accuracy of < 0.1 mm. Oncology laboratories can now drastically reduce their processing time, thereby shortening cancer diagnosis time and providing personalized cancer therapy.
Technology
Mechanical design, Mechatronics, System architecture, Image processing, Electronics, Optics, Computer vision, Motion control, Machine control software, Machine learning, Application software, UX.