COBIO in WESAVC

In the last three days, COBIO was at the 12th WESAVC Congress in Wuxi, China. This is the first time for COBIO to join such a veterinary congress as an exhibitor and it is also the first time for the vets in China to get to know about the secret high-tech "weapon": the new generation of urine sediment analyzer from COBIO Smart Healthcare. In the following, we will see more details about this technique.

The full automatized urine sediment analyzers are an independent invention by COBIO Smart Healthcare which focus on this area already for 17 years. The development follows "4S" characteristics: Simple, Smart, Speedy, Small. A mini centrifuge is integrated and the software is combined with computer vision and artificial intelligence so that the device can give a result with 20 full-field images of sediments within just 1-2 minutes, without any manual operation. All the images, which look very close to those under a real microscope, can be zoomed, changed focus, and reviewed at any time.

COBIO uses deep learning AI to analyze and mark those sediments of clinical interest like RBC, WBC, epithelial, crystals, bacteria, etc. Moreover, the device can distinguish the pathological casts from the physiological which is important in the screening of kidney damage in the early phase. Dogs and cats have often acute kidney problems that are easily ignored and later developed into irreversible chronic kidney insufficiency. With modern urine sediment screening, we can detect slight nephritis, intoxication and other kidney disease and help the patients / animals to save their kidneys.

The demo-device received a lot of attention at the WESAVC congress for its high quality of the pictures and simple operation way. But one of the most often asked questions by the vets are how to get the support in COVID-19 time. Nevertheless, COBIO begins with the remote technic and tele-diagnostic much earlier than the COVID-19 begins. All the products include another important invention calls iClinical are built with "4R" principles: Remote installation, Remote training, Remote service, Remote consultant. One can stay at the hospital and get all the support from installation to error reparation, materials supplement, reports sharing and tele-diagnostics from other doctors or reference laboratories. No wonder the COBIO urine sediment analyzer became one of the most popular new products in this congress.

It was a time that the vets did not use to take routine blood samples because of workload, but automatized blood counting devices saved them from manual counting with the cell chamber under a microscope. Today, every vet takes blood samples as frequently as needed. Would urine analysis be the next hot spots of clinical diagnostics in small animal veterinary medicine, when the revolutionary technique changes the way of sample examination? Hopefully we will see that day soon.