20 Artificial Intelligence Start-ups in Medical Imaging - Blackford Analysis

Ever-increasing workload combined with dramatic reimbursement changes are driving development of methods that help clinicians gain value from medical images more efficiently. The brightest hope is artificial intelligence, fueled by advances in deep learning / convolutional neural networks. While the big vendors have made significant investments (Watson Health, GE Healthcare, Siemens etc.) and the usual academic groups are well represented, there is considerable activity at the smaller end of the scale. In preparation for the SIIM Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging event in Alexandria, 12th -13th September we pulled together a list of the various start-ups working on machine learning solutions for medical imaging. It was surprising to see how many more have come out of stealth mode since RSNA last year – how many more are waiting in the wings?