Zebra Medical Vision has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from DeepFork Capital and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
The company has also launched a closed beta of its Medical Imaging Research platform, which enables researchers to quickly develop imaging algorithms and insights based on large scale datasets and advanced processing power. Zebra’s commercialization pipeline will then expedite clinical application of imaging research products.
Zebra’s platform enables researchers to quickly develop imaging algorithms and insights based on large scale datasets and advanced processing power.With an aging global population, the demand for medical imaging is rapidly increasing while accurate diagnosis is getting increasingly difficult to achieve with existing radiology resources. Medical Imaging storage has grown tenfold since 2005 according to a Frost&Sullivan report and continues to grow with more advanced modalities. Therefore, there is an acute need for accurate automated tools to enable high quality diagnostic insights at scale.
“Advances in machine learning and computer vision have made it possible to create diagnostic quality algorithms based on big data, that surpass current reading accuracy rates. Such algorithms will reduce false positives, identify false negatives, provide earlier diagnosis of cancer or other diseases and unlock incidental findings hidden in the vast amounts of imaging data that resides within archives of health providers, “said Elad Benjamin, Zebra Medical CEO and former General Manager of the Carestream Healthcare Information Solutions group.
Zebra offers a cloud-based, fully hosted research and development platform. This includes access to large datasets of structured, de-identified studies, storage, state-of-the-art GPU computing power and support for a multitude of research tools. The platform also enables research groups to collaborate and create joint tools. Initially, it is being launched to select research groups, and researchers and machine learning practitioners can apply for an invite from this page…