retinal imaging

A researcher conducting a laboratory test
By  Adam Ang 05:52 am July 15, 2022
Oncoshot receives funding to further expand in India, Australia Singaporean medical startup Oncoshot has scored an undisclosed investment through a pre-Series A funding round led by Biofurmis and Qure.ai investor MassMutual Ventures. Based on a press release, the funding will support the company's further expansion into India and Australia.  There are four hospital networks in India and some...
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By  Adam Ang 05:25 am June 1, 2022
New Zealand-based AI healthcare firm Toku Eyes has brought its retina-based AI health screening platform to the United States. Its latest offering, the ORAiCLE, can assess and calculate a person's cardiovascular risk through a retinal scan. Still pending a patent, the AI technology uses an image of the back of a user's eye taken from a retinal camera. The platform spots minute changes in blood...
A photo of a person's eye
By  Adam Ang 05:36 am October 13, 2021
Latest research integrates artificial intelligence into retinal imaging to detect and monitor eye diseases on a large scale. The Comprehensive AI Retinal Expert (CARE) system was developed by a team of researchers from four institutions in China: Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Eaglevision Technology, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre and Capital Medical University, together with the Monash University...
By  Dave Muoio 02:43 pm October 11, 2018
Optina Diagnostics, a Montreal-based company that uses spectral retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to scan for early Alzheimer’s disease, announced today that it has raised $4 million in seed funding. Zoic Capital led the round with participation from Desjardins Capital, DigitalDx Ventures, Pallasite Ventures, Barney Pell, Barney Pell's AngelList Syndicate, Advisors.fund and Hike...