This Chinese Startup Is Bringing AI to Heart Disease Treatment

Shukun Technology, a startup founded two years ago in Beijing that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose heart disease, is developing a technology that could help tackle one of China's most urgent medical problems: a shortage of doctors to treat a rapidly growing population of older, sicker people. Shukun uses software, a database of millions of images of healthy and diseased hearts and machine learning algorithms to make heart CT scans more accurate. The company hopes its product will help doctors diagnose a heart patient's condition and plan surgery faster than they can now. The company has raised $50 million from venture capitalists in mainland China and Hong Kong, including Morningside Venture Capital, Huagai Capital and China Creation Ventures.