Siemens Healthineers Adopts MONAI Deploy for Medical Imaging AI

3.6 billion. That’s about how many medical imaging tests are performed annually worldwide to diagnose, monitor and treat various conditions. Speeding up the processing and evaluation of all these X-rays, CT scans, MRIs and ultrasounds is essential to helping doctors manage their workloads and to improving health outcomes. That’s why NVIDIA introduced MONAI, which serves
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Keeping an AI on Diabetes Risk: Gen AI Model Predicts Blood Sugar Levels Four Years Out

Diabetics — or others monitoring their sugar intake — may look at a cookie and wonder, “How will eating this affect my glucose levels?” A generative AI model can now predict the answer. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv-based startup Pheno.AI and NVIDIA led the development of GluFormer, an AI model that
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Indonesia Tech Leaders Team With NVIDIA and Partners to Launch Nation’s AI

Working with NVIDIA and its partners, Indonesia’s technology leaders have launched an initiative to bring sovereign AI to the nation’s more than 277 million Indonesian speakers. The collaboration is grounded in a broad public-private partnership that reflects the nation’s concept of “gotong royong,” a term describing a spirit of mutual assistance and community collaboration. NVIDIA
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2025 Predictions: AI Finds a Reason to Tap Industry Data Lakes

Since the advent of the computer age, industries have been so awash in stored data that most of it never gets put to use. This data is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 120 zettabytes — the equivalent of trillions of terabytes, or more than 120x the amount of every grain of sand on
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Lab Confidential: Japan Research Keeps Healthcare Data Secure

Established 77 years ago, Mitsui & Co stays vibrant by building businesses and ecosystems with new technologies like generative AI and confidential computing. Digital transformation takes many forms at the Tokyo-based conglomerate with 16 divisions. In one case, it’s an autonomous trucking service, in another it’s a geospatial analysis platform. Mitsui even collaborates with a
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Japan Develops Next-Generation Drug Design, Healthcare Robotics and Digital Health Platforms

To provide high-quality medical care to its population — around 30% of whom are 65 or older — Japan is pursuing sovereign AI initiatives supporting nearly every aspect of healthcare. AI tools trained on country-specific data and local compute infrastructure are supercharging the abilities of Japan’s clinicians and researchers so they can care for patients,
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Startup Helps Surgeons Target Breast Cancers With AI-Powered 3D Visualizations

A new AI-powered, imaging-based technology that creates accurate three-dimensional models of tumors, veins and other soft tissue offers a promising new method to help surgeons operate on, and better treat, breast cancers. The technology, from Illinois-based startup SimBioSys, converts routine black-and-white MRI images into spatially accurate, volumetric images of a patient’s breasts. It then illuminates
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Healthcare Leaders Across India Bring NVIDIA NIM for Hindi Language to LLM Applications

Life sciences and healthcare organizations across India are using generative AI to build applications that can deliver life-saving impacts — within the country and across the globe. Among such leading organizations are research centers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), intelligent life sciences
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US Healthcare System Deploys AI Agents, From Research to Rounds

The U.S. healthcare system is adopting digital health agents to harness AI across the board, from research laboratories to clinical settings. The latest AI-accelerated tools — on display at the NVIDIA AI Summit taking place this week in Washington, D.C. — include NVIDIA NIM, a collection of cloud-native microservices that support AI model deployment and
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AI’ll Be by Your Side: Mental Health Startup Enhances Therapist-Client Connections

Half of the world’s population will experience a mental health disorder — but the median number of mental health workers per 100,000 people is just 13, according to the World Health Organization. To help tackle this disparity — which can vary by over 40x between high-income and low-income countries — a Madrid-based startup is offering
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