Image Recognition
The future of surgical tech may conjure up certain images: robot surgeons assisting humans; hologram anatomies projected above patients. But, while he is a surgeon familiar with AI, Jeelani posits another acronym as more useful to the future of surgical tech: natural intelligence (NI). Google maps for the human bodyJeelani’s view is that AI-as-panacea is myth, exercising more of a need for NI in surgical tech. Surgical platform developer Theator raised a $15.5m series A round this year off the back of its surgical tech video tools. Through desktop and mobile apps, surgeons have access to an indexed library of over 400,000 minutes of surgical video encompassing over 80,000 moments.