The word “grok,” meaning to understand completely, comes from the Martian language in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, but has since been incorporated into English.
Clinical Applications for Advanced Technology
iGrok's portfolio of advances in image processing, knowledge representation, machine learning, rapid search and optimization work in concert to create powerful, intelligent solutions for medical image understanding.
Our first product is also called IGROK, but for Image-Guided Radiation Oncology Knowledgebase. New treatment-time imaging systems are promising to dramatically advance physicians' ability to track clinically significant changes during a course of radiation therapy. Though gigabytes and gigabytes of new data and the many hours a day of physician time required to analyze it, make it difficult, at best, to translate these new capabilities into clinical gains. The IGROK system, which began beta trials in 2007, analyzes and graphically summarizes the new imaging so that physicians can review and explore this wealth of hundreds or thousands of images in seconds.
The company was founded in 2006 (after several years of technology development) just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the conviction that automated medical image analysis will become increasingly critical in providing the highest quality health care in a cost-effective way. While for many analyses no software can match the eye of a well-trained physician, iGrok's revolutionary intellectual property has also made the obverse true – some analyses are more readily and reliably performed by software, especially those requiring the integration of a large quantity of 4-dimensional data. Combining such compelling new capabilities with our software's ability to efficiently organize and visually present and navigate vast quantities of rich, multi-modal medical data, turns a virtually unmanageable terabit torrent of pixels and voxels and numbers, into meaning. Quickly and easily.
