Early-stage results of the company’s AI chest x-ray solution across the NHS in Scotland show Harrison.ai could save 600 lives a year in the country. Dimitry and Aengus Tran founded medical technology company Harrison.
ai in 2018 , with a view to save a million lives a day by 2025. On its way to achieving that mission, the company built annalise.ai – a solution that helps radiologists identify chest and brain diseases and illnesses to improve patient outcomes – in a joint venture with I-MED Radiology.
Annalise.ai’s chest x-ray solution, Annalise CXR, has been trained to detect tumours after having more than 820,000 chest X-ray images from patients around the world uploaded to its database. And since 2022, it’s been undergoing trials across 12 clinical sites in Scotland operated by the NHS.
“It’s really transforming lung cancer care in Scotland,” Dimitry Tran says. “In the Aberdeen area, it’s quite challenging in terms of people getting access to care, because it’s so difficult to recruit radiologists, pathologists and doctors. So, many people wait a long time to get their cancer diagnosis.
” The lack of radiologists is hitting Australia, too, due to increasing demand for imaging studies, a global aging population and clinician burnout. But early-stage results of the trials show Annalise CXR, which is capable of identifying the suspected presence of up to 124 findings on chest x-rays, shaved nine days off the time to treatment (48 compared to 57). It also .
