Applied Spectral Imaging (ASI) is a leading developer and manufacturer of comprehensive solutions for Cytogenetics and Pathology imaging and data management needs. With its superior quality image capture (acquisition) abilities, ASI provides state of the art diagnostic aids.  All solutions are integrated into the Laboratory Information System (LIS), which incorporates Picture Archive Communication System (PACS).

General

ASI is a privately held company since 1993. ASI employs 33 people worldwide with two fully owned subsidiaries manage sales and customer support in North America and Europe along with independent distributors throughout the rest of the world.  ASI subscribes to all stringent international quality standards (e.g., ISO, CE, and FDA).

Company Credo

Applied Spectral Imaging is committed to excellence and accuracy striving to remain a leader in cutting edge technology for cytogenetics and pathology diagnosis.  It is dedicated to maintain a supportive environment for laboratory staff: physicians, technologist, and technicians.
The company products are geared towards cancer, pre-, and post-natal diagnosis in clinical and research use.  Products range from the basic manual operation mounted on existing laboratory microscopes all the way to fully automatic operation: slide manipulation, scanned acquisition and automatic analysis.
Full capabilities support fluorescent, transmission (Bright-field) and spectral image acquisition, harnessed to genetic tests (karyotyping, FISH, CGH), cytology (cells) and other pathology (tissues) tests (Immunihistochemistry Scoring, Rare cell Identification. The provided automatic aid and diagnostic tools are all interconnected through a single laboratory communication network to allow team work, supervision, peer review and paperless environment.

Core Technology and Intellectual Properties

The company owns more than 30 patents in the US alone, and other patents in Europe and Japan.  These patents cover general use spectral imaging, image analysis, scanning techniques, spectroscopy in life science and medicine and patents for specific applications.