Israeli imaging company Nanox announced Monday it completed its merger with Zebra Medical Vision, now rebranded as Nanox.AI, for approximately $110 million in stock, with the ability to earn an additional $84 million in stock based on performance.
Nanox also wrapped up the acquisition of teleradiology provider USARAD Holdings and its affiliated company MDWEB, which offers a marketplace for...
Smart imaging company Zebra Medical Vision landed an FDA 510(k) clearance for its cardiac-focused imaging tool called HealthCCSng.
The new tool is able to analyze non-gated CT scans and can quantify Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC). According to the company, the tool is able to categorize patients based on cardiac calcium detected and help clinicians detect patients with cardiovascular disease. ...
Digital x-ray imaging company Nanox announced plans to acquire two companies Tuesday, Zebra Medical Vision and USARAD Holdings.
Nanox said it entered into an agreement to acquire AI developer Zebra Medical Vision in an all-stock transaction for $100 million upfront and then another $100 million tied to performance.
Nanox also signed a binding letter of intent to acquire teleradiology provider...
Zebra Medical Vision has announced its latest Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for HealthMammo, an artificial intelligence tool that helps radiologists identify suspicious mammograms.
The AI tool works by automatically sending mammograms to the analytic platform to be searched for breast lesions. HealthMammo then marks each mammogram as either “suspicious” or “not suspicious” for the...
#Pelotonad. Peloton has found itself in the middle of controversy as a recent television ad released by the company was panned by many as sexist. The roughly 30-second video, in which a husband purchases the connected exercise bike for his wife as a Christmas gift, has generated a backlash consisting of Twitter hashtags, viral parodies and a roughly 10% drop in Peloton’s stock price; however, the...
The past week has seen two FDA clearances awarded to Israeli companies building artificial intelligence analysis tools for medical imaging.
The first, announced last Tuesday, was Aidoc’s tool for triaging cervical spine fractures. Much like the company’s prior offerings, the new product analyzes images to prioritize high-risk cases for review by a radiologist, and does so within the specialist’s...
Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel-based deep learning startup Zebra Medical Vision announced yesterday that it has received an 510(k) clearance for an artificial intelligence tool that can read medical imaging to identify potential cases of pneumothorax — a build-up of gas between a lung and the chest wall.
The HealthPNX product scans a chest X-ray or digital radiography scan for signs of the condition,...
Every day sees strides across the field of artificial intelligence, and healthcare is just one of the many industries looking to smart automation as a means to reduce burden and improve results. The last year in particular has brought a wealth of new healthcare focused software tools to the forefront, and as such has ignited debate on how these algorithms are being reviewed and regulated by the...
Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel-based deep learning startup Zebra Medical Vision announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for an algorithm that helps physicians quantify a patient’s coronary artery calcification.
From a ECG-gated computed tomography (CT) scan, the Coronary Calcium Scoring algorithm automatically calculates a calcification rating equivalent to those derived using the Agatston...
Kibbutz Shefayim Israel-based deep learning startup Zebra Medical Vision has just closed a $30 million Series C funding round led by aMoon and Aurum Ventures with participation from Johnson & Johnson Innovation JJDC and Intermountain Healthcare.
“Medical experts worldwide are facing a critical challenge in handling overwhelming demand. We are excited to partner with the Zebra team, which is...
