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GE Healthcare Receives FDA Approval for First AI Algorithm Embedded in X-ray System

Sep 16, 2019 19:11 CST Updated Sep 17, 20:00
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YiOu Healthcare, September 17 – Recently, GE Healthcare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed and approved its Critical Care Suite, an AI-based solution for predicting pneumothorax in intensive care units (ICU). This marks GE Healthcare’s first artificial intelligence algorithm (AI algorithm) embedded directly into mobile X-ray equipment. Developed on GE Healthcare’s Edison platform in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco, this AI algorithm is designed for clinical detection of pneumothorax, pneumoperitoneum, and malpositioned lines.