Budding AI system for radiology draws $7 million investment

An Israeli startup has received a $7 million funding boost to speed its radiology-specific AI product toward the market.

AIDoc Medical will differentiate its offering by emphasizing its broad ability to spot “high-level” abnormalities and then flag the most urgent studies for the top of the work list, according to the company’s CEO.

“We understood that to really make a difference we cannot suffice in one or two pathologies,” Elad Walach tells TechCrunch. “We have to be much more comprehensive than that.”

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