Ministerial visit to Intelligent Ultrasound HQ

RNS Number : 2091B

Intelligent Ultrasound Group PLC

29 January 2020

 

Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc

("Intelligent Ultrasound" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Ministerial visit to Intelligent Ultrasound Head Office

Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc (AIM: MED) announces that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP and the Secretary of State for Wales, The Rt Hon Simon Hart MP, visited the Group's head office to experience first hand the advances that the Group's Clinical Artificial Intelligence Division has made with its real-time AI image guidance software, AnatomyGuide.

AnatomyGuide aims to simplify ultrasound-guided needling by providing the user with real-time AI-based needle guidance software for a range of medical procedures. The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP watched a volunteer being scanned and was then scanned himself.

Both MPs were also shown the Group's world leading BodyWorks emergency medicine simulator and successfully scanned a number of simulated patients with both heart and liver conditions.

Stuart Gall, Group CEO, commented: "We were delighted to welcome both the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Secretary of State for Wales to our office in Cardiff. We have benefitted from private investment and also public support from both regional funding, as well as Welsh Government and Innovate UK backed R&D grants and we welcomed the opportunity to demonstrate the results of this investment to both Mr Gove and Mr Hart. Following a strong 2019 and our first major AI licensing agreement, we are now progressing commercial discussions for our second AI software product. This is an exciting time for the Group."

Enquiries:

Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc			www.intelligentultrasound.com
Stuart Gall, CEO  Helen Jones,  Group Finance Director			Tel: [phone]
Walbrook PR	Tel: [phone] or [e-mail]
Anna Dunphy / Paul McManus		Mob: [phone] / Mob: [phone]

About Intelligent Ultrasound Group

Intelligent Ultrasound (AIM: MED) develops artificial intelligence-based clinical image analysis software tools for the diagnostic medical ultrasound market and hi-fidelity virtual reality simulators for the ultrasound training market.

Based in Cardiff and Oxford in the UK, Atlanta in the US and with representation in Beijing in Asia, the Group operates two divisions:

Clinical AI Division

Focusses on developing deep learning-based algorithms to make ultrasound machines smarter and more accessible. Products in development include ScanNav which uses machine-learning based algorithms to automatically identify and grade ultrasound images to provide scan assessment and audit of protocol-based ultrasound scanning; and  AnatomyGuide, which aims to simplify ultrasound-guided needling by providing the user with real-time AI-based needle guidance software for a range of medical procedures.

Simulation Division

Focusses on hi-fidelity ultrasound education and training through simulation.  Its three main products are the ScanTrainer OBGYN training simulator, the HeartWorks echocardiography training simulator and the BodyWorks Eve Point of Care and Emergency Medicine training simulator. To date over 800 simulators have been sold to almost 500 medical institutions around the world.

www.intelligentultrasound.com 

 

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