AI ultrasound

Healthcare professional listening to a pregnant person's stomach with a stethoscope
By  Jessica Hagen 02:08 pm November 7, 2023
Editor's note: This story has been updated with a comment from Philips.  Royal Philips received an additional $44.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing its total received to $60 million, to support the global deployment of the tech giant's AI-enabled, FDA-cleared Lumify Ultrasound System. In 2021, Philips received an initial grant of $15.4 million from the Gates...
Healthcare worker standing beside a pregnant person lying in bed while both are touching the pregnant person's stomach
By  Jessica Hagen 09:04 am September 19, 2023
GE HealthCare has secured a grant of more than $44 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to design AI-enabled applications and tools to help less experienced health professionals in low- and middle-income countries perform ultrasound scans that address fetal and maternal health and respiratory diseases. Caption Health, founded in 2013 and acquired by GE HealthCare earlier this year,...
A screenshot of a breast scan reading from the See-Mode software
By  Adam Ang 11:57 pm November 16, 2022
See-Mode Technologies, a medtech startup based in Melbourne, Australia and Singapore, has received the approval of Health Canada for its software product that supports breast and thyroid ultrasound examinations. Founded in 2017, the company develops AI to better predict the risk of stroke and vascular diseases by improving the analysis of ultrasound images. Its flagship product, Augmented...