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Techcyte
AI digital pathology across clinical, veterinary and environmental laboratory disciplines
As of 1 September 2026, Techcyte's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Techcyte runs AI over digitised slides for parasitology, cytology, haematology, urinalysis and microbiology, plus a veterinary platform called Vetcyte. Softwr lists it under Healthcare. Techcyte is made by Techcyte, Inc., available on Web.
Overview
What Techcyte does
Techcyte is a Utah company selling AI assisted digital pathology across an unusually wide set of disciplines. Where most pathology AI vendors concentrate on histology and oncology, Techcyte covers parasitology, cervical cytology, general cytology, haematology, urinalysis, bacteriology, mycology, frozen section and infectious disease fluorescence, and it also serves veterinary and environmental laboratories. Vetcyte is its veterinary platform, taking scanned blood and faecal samples and running deep learning analysis for animal health laboratories. The regulatory position is the fact that changes a shortlist, and it runs the opposite way to what buyers expect. Techcyte solutions are CE marked and deployed clinically across Europe, while several of its United States offerings, including the Fusion Parasitology Suite, are labelled for research use only and not for diagnostic use in the United States. An American laboratory reading a case study about clinical deployment in Europe is reading about a permission it does not have. Any American buyer must ask, product by product, whether that specific module is cleared or research use only in the United States. Buyers are clinical laboratories under staffing pressure in high volume manual microscopy disciplines, veterinary reference laboratories and environmental testing laboratories. The trade off is that digital microscopy needs a scanner capable of the right modality, and slide scanning for parasitology or haematology is a different technical problem from histology scanning. Laboratories that already own a histology scanner often find it cannot produce the multi plane images these disciplines need, and the hardware becomes the largest unplanned cost.
What people use it for
- A clinical laboratory that cannot recruit technologists for high volume manual parasitology screening and needs AI pre screening with human release
- A veterinary reference laboratory processing large volumes of faecal and blood smears that wants Vetcyte to triage the normal cases
- A European laboratory that can deploy the CE marked products clinically, which is where Techcyte regulatory position is strongest
- An environmental testing laboratory needing consistent microscopy classification across analysts and sites
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- Regulatory status runs the opposite way to what most buyers assume: the products are CE marked and clinically deployed in Europe while several United States offerings including Fusion Parasitology are labelled research use only and not for diagnostic use, so an American laboratory must verify each module individually.
- Slide scanning for parasitology, haematology and cytology needs multi plane imaging that a histology scanner may not produce, so a laboratory that already owns a scanner often has to buy new hardware, which becomes the biggest line in the project.
- Each discipline is licensed separately, so a laboratory wanting parasitology, urinalysis and haematology assembles three modules and three validation studies rather than buying one platform.
- AI pre screening does not remove the need for a qualified reviewer to release results, so the staffing saving is in review time per slide, not in headcount, and business cases that assume otherwise do not hold.
- Techcyte covers a very wide set of disciplines, which means depth varies between them, and the maturity of a newer module is not the maturity of the parasitology or cytology products that made the company its name.
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Pricing
What Techcyte costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Techcyte
On request
- Priced per slide or per annual specimen volume by discipline
- Each discipline module licensed separately
- Slide scanning hardware bought separately, not included
- Regulatory status varies by module and country, which affects what can be licensed where
- No published rate card
Capabilities
Features
Fusion Parasitology Suite
AI detection of ova and parasites in faecal preparations, labelled research use only in the United States
Cervical cytology
AI pre screening and field of view selection for cervical cytology slides
Haematology
Differential cell classification on peripheral blood smears with pathologist review
Urinalysis
Automated classification of urine sediment elements
Bacteriology and mycology
Assisted review of Gram stains and fungal preparations
Vetcyte
Veterinary platform for automated analysis of scanned animal blood and faecal samples
Scanner agnostic ingestion
Works with multiple slide scanner vendors rather than being tied to one hardware supplier
Remote review
Cases reviewed and released from any location, which is the point for laboratories short of on site technologists
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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Is Techcyte FDA cleared?
Not uniformly. Several United States offerings, including the Fusion Parasitology Suite, are labelled research use only and not for diagnostic use in the United States. Check the regulatory status of each specific module for your country before purchase.
Can we use it clinically in Europe?
Techcyte solutions are CE marked and clinically deployed across Europe, which is where its regulatory position is strongest. Confirm the current certificate for the specific module.
Does it eliminate the need for a technologist?
No. AI pre screens and prioritises, but a qualified reviewer still releases results. The saving is in review time per slide.
Do we need a specific scanner?
Techcyte works with several scanner vendors, but disciplines such as parasitology and haematology need multi plane imaging that many histology scanners cannot produce, so confirm hardware compatibility early.
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