How AI is saving lives in stroke and other neurovascular care

Karim Karti is the former president of GE Health Imaging and the current CEO of RapidAI – a company founded more than 10 years ago by Dr. Greg Albers, one of the world's leading stroke researchers and director of the Stanford Stroke Center. For more than 20 years, most in healthcare believed doctors had less than three hours after a stroke to provide treatment. However, Dr. Albers' landmark research ultimately demonstrated that a thrombectomy (a procedure to remove blood clots) as late as 24 hours after stroke onset still benefited patients. Albers and Dr. Roland Bammer founded RapidAI to streamline the stroke workflow and get patients to treatment faster. Since then, their AI technology has been applied beyond stroke treatment, to aneurysm, pulmonary embolism and more.