medical imaging

Group of people, two in lab coats, sit around table
By  Trevor Dermody 10:28 am April 3, 2024
Chicago-based GE HealthCare announced it closed its acquisition of AI and imaging solutions company MIM Software, expanding its digital imaging offerings.  Cleveland-based MIM Software provides remote software solutions for oncology, nuclear medicine, cardiac imaging and neuroimaging.  The company touts its products as reducing time spent on manual tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on providing...
Surgeons analysing a brain scan.
By  Adam Ang 01:43 am July 27, 2023
Researchers from the faculties of Engineering and IT at Monash University have come up with an AI algorithm that can judge another AI algorithm's annotation or label in a medical scan, mimicking the process of seeking a second opinion. FINDINGS They created a dual-view AI system where one part labels medical images while the other judges the quality of the AI-generated labelled scans by...
A patient accessing the Manage My Health portal
By  Adam Ang 11:14 pm March 3, 2022
Manage My Health adds patient diary feature for recording symptoms New Zealand-based Manage My Health has recently launched a new diary feature on its patient portal to enable remote monitoring of patients' symptoms. The My Health Diary function is where patients fill out information about their symptoms, including self-monitored blood pressure, oxygen levels, and other indicators like fever and...
Synapsica's AI-enabled PACS radiology solution Radiolens
By  Adam Ang 09:37 pm December 2, 2021
AI radiology firm Synapsica expands PACS offering to more Indian cities AI radiology reporting company Synapsica has partnered with GenWorks Health, a healthcare solutions provider backed by Wipro GE Healthcare, to bring its picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to more cities across India.  Its Radiolens radiology workflow solution automatically detects bad quality scans and creates...
A woman sitting with her back to the camera on a hospital bed
By  Emily Olsen 01:35 pm October 26, 2021
AI-enabled imaging company Aidoc is partnering with ScreenPoint Medical, the maker of an AI product for 2D and 3D mammography. The collaboration will allow Aidoc to integrate ScreenPoint’s tech into its platform, which Aidoc positioned as the “natural next step” in providing a practice-wide radiology tool. ScreenPoint’s algorithm assists radiologists in assessing 2D and 3D mammograms. This, the...
By  Adam Ang 11:11 pm June 13, 2021
VinBrain, an artificial intelligence healthcare software developer in Vietnam, recently came up with an AI model for the diagnosis and screening of tuberculosis. The Vingroup-backed company has worked with the German non-profit group Friends for International Tuberculosis Relief in writing a white paper discussing the utilisation of AI in TB diagnosis and screening in the country. WHY IT MATTERS...
By  Adam Ang 12:43 am June 11, 2021
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, a research body under South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, said its researchers have developed a cardiovascular event prediction model that enhances the speed and accuracy of disease diagnosis. Researchers led by Dr Jong-won Park, head of the institute's Department of Reliability Assessment, collaborated with the cardiology research group at...
By  Thiru Gunasegaran 04:29 am May 27, 2021
Australian legal tech startup creates COVID-19 diagnosis tool Rulestar has used its automation platform to turn a static flowchart about COVID-19 diagnosis into an online tool. The startup, whose platform is used to automate complex legal documents, said the new diagnosis tool will help exhausted medical workers in expediting decision-making and raising the quality of their decisions. "We looked...
A stock exchange board.
By  Roy Chiang 10:19 pm March 25, 2021
South Korean medical AI company made its debut on KOSDAQ, a trading board of Korea Exchange, for an IPO of 37.8 billion won ($33.6 million) by issuing 1.8 million shares. WHY IT MATTERS The company had accumulated an operating deficit of 7 billion won ($6.2 million) by the third quarter of 2020, and the funds will be a much needed injection of cash. Vuno plans to invest in research and...
By  Dave Muoio 03:35 pm September 16, 2020
Israeli "digital X-ray" company Nanox is fielding increased scrutiny and a sizable hit to its share prices following the publication of a scathing report and commentary that referred to the company as "Theranos 2.0." The criticism was posted yesterday by activist short seller Andrew Left's Citron Research, an online stock analysis and commentary blog that has focused on identifying overpriced or...