Innovative Development Forum on Visual Imaging Equipment: Unlocking Growth Potential and Achieving Business Breakthroughs
The medical imaging equipment market constitutes the largest segment of the global medical device market. Led by advanced healthcare systems in North America and Europe, the global medical imaging market has gradually entered a mature stage of development, maintaining a trend of slow overall growth.
National policies support the development of domestic enterprises through multiple links, including “industrial development, end-user application, and allocation regulation.” Data shows that the market size of China’s medical imaging equipment industry increased from RMB 65.5 billion in 2017 to RMB 95.4 billion in 2021, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8%, approximately twice the global average CAGR for the imaging market. The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Medical Equipment Industry, released in 2021, proposes the development of next-generation medical imaging equipment, promoting intelligent, remote, miniaturized, rapid, precise, multi-modal fusion, and integrated diagnosis and treatment capabilities. However, the medical imaging industry features high technical barriers. For a long time, China’s medical imaging equipment sector has been characterized by low industry concentration, insufficient technological innovation capability, and a low market share of domestic products in the mid-to-high-end segments. With the continuous advancement of visualization technologies, modern medicine has become increasingly reliant on medical image information, which plays an extremely important role in clinical diagnosis and medical research. As medical diagnostic visualization technology continues to evolve, ongoing efforts are being made to seek higher-quality medical images that offer greater clarity and diagnostic value.
In this context, the 7th Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference has specially establishedForum on the Innovative Development of Visual Imaging Equipment, focusing on new development opportunities and technological innovation amid evolving trends, we invite industry experts, investors, and representatives from leading enterprises to analyze and forecast the development trends of medical imaging equipment, grasp the patterns of supply and demand changes in the medical imaging equipment market, discuss industry development, and showcase industry strength.
I.Forum Highlights
(I)Frontier Perspective: Strong Policy SupportBelow，InsightIndustry DevelopmentTrend
Against the backdrop of the booming global medical imaging equipment market, China’s imaging market size has been steadily rising, with the overall industry trend remaining positive. With the continuous advancement of medical imaging technology, the integrated prevention and treatment model encompassing “screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation” is poised to achieve comprehensive coverage. This will bring about a significant transformation in the role of radiologists, ultimately benefiting the general public.
This forum has specially invited Professor Liu Shiyuan, Director of the Department of Radiology at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital and Chairman of the Chinese Society of Radiology under the Chinese Medical Association, to deliver the keynote address as the first speaker, providing insights into industry development trends.
(II) Technology Empowerment: AI-Driven R&D Innovation Surge Propels Industry Upgrading and Transformation
AI has been widely applied across various fields of medicine. An increasing number of AI-based medical imaging products are maturing and entering the stage of clinical validation, with dozens of AI-assisted diagnostic software packages already approved in China. AI imaging technology has become deeply integrated into clinical practice, playing a significant role in preoperative planning, intraoperative navigation, and other aspects. Moving from initial skepticism to excessive optimism, and then through calm and rational exploration, the field has now entered a new era of clinical application and commercialization. It has become commonplace for medical imaging equipment to be empowered by deep learning technologies, while AI products for optimizing imaging workflows and aiding image-based disease diagnosis are evolving toward platform-based and comprehensive enterprise-wide applications. Rapid advancements in information technology have driven the swift development of imaging techniques, extending radiology from its initial diagnostic domain into therapeutic areas, shifting from traditional anatomical imaging toward metabolic functional imaging, and progressing from two-dimensional to three-dimensional imaging. In the future, imaging technology will continue to evolve toward higher quality and enhanced functionality. This forum invites representatives from companies such as Infervision and Xingmai Technology to share typical case studies, aiming to provide valuable insights for other innovative enterprises.
(III)Growth Exploration: The Rise of Domestic Equipment—Is There Great Potential for Internationalization?
As the medical imaging equipment industry continues to mature and segment, there is growing market demand for service providers capable of delivering specialized products and services, attracting significant attention from the capital markets. Medical AI is not an industry characterized by “quick investment and rapid returns”; commercialization challenges stem primarily from issues of standard acceptance and value recognition. Meanwhile, as China’s foundational sciences and precision manufacturing industries gradually narrow the gap with overseas counterparts, domestic medical imaging equipment companies have achieved technological breakthroughs. Leveraging advantages such as cost-effectiveness, they have steadily increased their sales share in the market, not only accelerating the process of import substitution but also enabling leading Chinese medical imaging firms to expand globally. Patient-centric, healthcare service-based,Yin Medical FundStrategically positioning across medical services, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals and in vitro diagnostics (IVD), and smart healthcare, based on three dimensions: disease categories, new technologies, and the industrial chain. This forum is strongly supported by Yinyue Medical Fund, working together with innovative enterprises to explore development opportunities for domestically produced imaging equipment.
II. Forum Introduction
ForumTime:May 5–7, 2023
ForumLocation:Shanghai · Zhangjiang Science Hall
Forum Name:Forum on Innovative Development of Visual Imaging Equipment
Supporting Organizations:Yueyin Medical Fund
Guest Representatives:
Dennis Wilkens | Representative of Germany Trade & Invest in China
Liu Shiyuan | Director, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital; Chairman, Chinese Society of Radiology, Chinese Medical Association
Corporate Representatives in Attendance:Infervision
※ Listed in alphabetical order by name; no ranking is implied. More guests are being confirmed.
ForumTopicPlanning:
Development Directions of the Imaging Equipment Industry Amid the Trend of Domestic Substitution
Benchmarking the Explosion of Corporate R&D Under “GPS”
Exploring AI Technology Empowerment to Drive the Upgrading of the Artificial Intelligence Medical Imaging Industry
The Inevitability and Challenges of Integrated Imaging Development
Clinical Challenges and Applications of AI Imaging in Oncologic Imaging
Prospects and Outlook for the Development of AI-Integrated Imaging Equipment
Development Opportunities for Domestically Produced High-End Imaging Equipment
Technological Innovation and Investment Opportunities in Imaging Equipment
※ Preliminary agenda items are for reference only; the final agenda is subject to on-site confirmation.
