Computer Image Processing Scientist Joins CybeRecord.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1999--

CybeRecord, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYRD) announced today that it has appointed Marek Niczyporuk (pronounced Nee-chee-PO-ruck) as director of imaging systems.

Niczyporuk continues in the position he held for the past three years with CybeRecord Group, prior to the firm's acquisition on June 9 of this year.

"Marek is a leading machine vision and computer image processing scientist with expertise in implementing advanced image processing methods into successful medical, commercial, and industrial applications," said James Lucas, CybeRecord's president and chief executive officer. "He complements our development strategy and is a significant asset to our team."

Niczyporuk's consultancy clients and projects have included work for the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and the Division of Cardiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, the U.S. Veterans Administration, Hewlett-Packard, Teleos Research, Hurletron, Provse de Mexico (Monterrey, Mexico), and the University of Lunds (Malmo, Sweden).

In the medical imaging arena, Niczyporuk's cardiovascular imaging systems to detect and reconstruct real-time, three-dimensional shapes of the heart surface have been in daily operation since 1989. His system to analyze Doppler ultrasound images has been in use since the early `90s, and his image processing software to interpret retinal topography and assist ophthalmologists in the detection and diagnosis of glaucoma is a more recent contribution to the field.

He has also developed industrial machine vision systems for inspection and quality control imaging of printing presses and moving web applications, as well as color image analysis programs for a variety of manufacturing environments. One noteworthy application is his on-line software to automatically test spectral response of new U.S. currency inks, which incorporate virtually counterfeit-proof security features.

"To fulfill CybeRecord's development strategy, we needed a top computer scientist from a more dynamic imaging field than traditional document image processing," said Glenn Kimball, vice president of research and development. "We needed someone from a field such as medical imaging, which is light years ahead of the traditional document arena in its overall capabilities. This advanced technology allows our company to develop a new class of digital document image enhancement software to convert microfilm and paper records to cyber records, thereby aiding the burgeoning knowledge management and consumer markets in sharing this information electronically over the Internet and within company intranet connections."

Niczyporuk added, "CybeRecord's solutions far surpass traditional manual systems in meeting the speed and quality needs of these vast markets. Advanced imaging algorithms, real-time speed, accuracy, and reproducibility I have built into other applications also are absolute requisites for the application our team is developing to automate and enhance the digitization of enormous repositories of microfilm and paper records accumulated over this century. Our automated process will be able to convert this vital information to clear and quickly transmittable digital format years before traditional manual systems could complete the task."

CybeRecord, based in Bellevue, Wash., is developing the next generation of digital document image enhancement software for the knowledge management market, which encompasses innumerable large institutions in both the government sector and private enterprise.