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Johnson & Johnson on Monday announced it’s working with Nvidia to develop and scale recent artificial intelligence applications for surgery.
J&J’s MedTech unit and Nvidia plan to integrate AI inside devices and platforms from pre-op to post-op to help be sure that surgeons have access to all the data they need, Nvidia’s vice chairman of health care Kimberly Powell said. As an example, the businesses are using AI to analyze surgical video and automate the time-consuming documentation required after a procedure.
“There’s a capability to use all of the sources of knowledge inside an operating room, whether it is your voice, or whether it is the video coming from a camera contained in the body, or elsewhere, to benefit from the generative AI moment that we’re in,” Powell told CNBC in an interview.
The MedTech unit at J&J creates tools and solutions for conditions corresponding to heart failure, kidney disease and stroke, and its technology is utilized in greater than 75 million procedures every year, the corporate told CNBC. Powell said Nvidia has worked in medical devices and imaging for greater than a decade.
Shan Jegatheeswaran, vice chairman and global head of digital at J&J MedTech, said only one minute of surgical video is equivalent to roughly 25 CT scans, so having the compute power and infrastructure to annotate and share those videos widely might be powerful for surgeons.
Within the short term, he said de-identifying and enhancing the video might help educate and train surgeons. In the long run, analytics could be layered on top of video to provide real-time decision support. More accessible surgical video means residents won’t have to solely depend upon the insight and availability of the more experienced physicians at their institutions.
“Take into consideration athletes. They appear at game tape, and they recuperate over time as they appear at themselves,” Jegatheeswaran told CNBC in an interview. “That is type of the place to begin. That is the holy grail within the short term.”
Powell said the collaboration is within the “early innings,” and many applications will take time to fine-tune and implement safely. Nonetheless, she said nondiagnostic use cases corresponding to automating paperwork will help save surgeons time and make a difference “right out of the gate.”
“I feel all of us as patients should get really excited in regards to the incontrovertible fact that this type of technology goes to have the opportunity to enter in and be close by of all of the clinicians and all of the hardworking nurses and all of the health-care staff,” Powell said. “They are going to have the best possible tools and information at their disposal.”