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on Monday announced that it’s collaborating to develop and scale latest applications of artificial intelligence in surgery.
J&J’s MedTech unit and Nvidia plan to integrate artificial intelligence into devices and platforms from preoperative to postoperative to make sure surgeons have access to all the knowledge they need, said Nvidia’s vice chairman of healthcare Kimberly Powell. For example, firms are using artificial intelligence to research video footage of surgical procedures and automate the time-consuming documentation required after surgery.
“There’s an opportunity to leverage all data sources in the operating room, whether it’s your voice or video coming from a body camera or wherever, to take advantage of the generative AI moment that we’re in,” Powell said in interview for CNBC.
J&J’s MedTech unit creates tools and solutions for conditions equivalent to heart failure, kidney disease and stroke, and its technology is utilized in greater than 75 million procedures every year, the corporate told CNBC. Powell said Nvidia has been within the medical device and imaging business for greater than a decade.
Shan Jegatheeswaran, vice chairman and global director of digital solutions at J&J MedTech, said that only one minute of surgical video corresponds to about 25 CT scans, so the computing power and infrastructure to annotate and share these videos widely will be useful for surgeons.
In the short term, de-identifying and improving the video could help educate and train surgeons, he said. In the long term, analytics might be overlaid on video to supply real-time decision support. More accessible video recordings of surgical procedures mean that residents will not should rely solely on the knowledge and availability of more experienced physicians of their facilities.
“Think about athletes. They watch match videos and over time, as they watch each other, they get better and better,” Jegatheeswaran told CNBC in an interview. “This is such a starting point. This is the holy grail in the short term.”
Powell said the collaboration is within the “early stages” and it will take time to refine and safely deploy lots of the applications. However, she said non-diagnostic use cases equivalent to documentation automation will help save surgeons time and make a right away difference.
“I think all of us as patients should be really excited that this type of technology will be able to come in and be within the reach of all doctors, all hard-working nurses and all health care staff,” Powell said. “They will have the best tools and information at their disposal.”
