According to WHO, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, killing 17.8 million people each year. For diagnosis of this fatal disease, cardiac MR scanning is normally used, however, the lack of cardio-radiologists and complex and long analysis times are factors that hinder timely treatment.

To address this issue, a group of Korean cardio radiologist established a company in 2019 and have developed an automated AI-based cardiac MR image analysis solution. This solution is an AI-based reading and reporting software that automatically analyses and accurately quantifies complex cardiovascular MR images. It is designed as a medical device type software for radiologists, cardiologists and researchers to make faster and more accurate diagnostic decisions as prompt diagnosis and treatment is of utmost importance.

Key features of the solution are diagnostic MR finding report, visualization of CMR (Cardiac Magnetic Resonance) images, quantitative mapping analysis, cardiac function analysis, strain and wall analysis, tissue characterization, phase contrast flow analysis, perfusion analysis, and so on. For clinically, the solution provides precision non-invasive diagnosis, prognostic insights for cardiac health, pioneering diagnostic recommendations, enhanced cardiac imaging, and user-focused diagnostic experience.

Moreover, as Korean startup is comprised of researchers who can support and assist medical staff who are interested in using AI solution to further their research studies, the company can provide value added professional services along with the software solution.

The solution has been approved by USA FDA, Korea FDA, Taiwan FDA, Thailand FDA and Malaysia FDA, and the company has partnered with major medical device distributors in above countries.

The Korean startup seeks partners of medical device distributors or medical imaging platform companies under commercial agreement with technical assistance. Also, the company is interested in research and development cooperation with MR scanner manufacturers or PACS (Picture Archiving Communication System) integrators that are interested in advancing analysis software that can be synched to their solutions.
Advantages and innovation
The solution provides fully automated analysis and clinical optimisation of cardiac MR images, and has advantages as follows;
- Time-saving: achieving super high-speed with high advanced AI technology (5 times faster than human analysis)
- Reliability: meticulously checked by certified medical professionals
- Full-automation: fully automatic from analysis to report
- Standardization: provide Z-score for standardization of analysis result

In addition, Cardiac MRI related clinical researchers have benefits by using this solution such as easy data management with automatic labelling, automatic analysis and statistics of Radiomics, and easy conducting advanced tissue characterization research with synthetic LGE (Late Gadolinium Enhancement) images.