At this year’s RSNA annual meeting, GE announced an official partnership with NVIDIA to bring NVIDIA’s AI solutions to GE’s imaging devices, debuting the new Revolution Frontier CT scanner and Vivid E95 4D ultrasound system, which utilizes NVIDIA’s computing platform. GE says this allows the Revolution Frontier to process images two times faster than previous generations of CT scanners and the Vivid E95 to more quickly reconstruct and visualize blood flow.

The partnership builds on the two companies’ 10-year relationship, with the goal of GE using NVIDIA’s platform for its applied intelligence initiative, developing new applications for the company’s install base.

“They have this half-million install base of instruments,” Powell said. “A lot of those instruments have GPUs inside, so there’s a real opportunity to bring intelligence and automation to those instruments. We’re working together in that capacity.”

NVIDIA also collaborated with Nuance in its new AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging, also announced at RSNA and which was built on NVIDIA’s deep learning platform.

Powell said NVIDIA exhibited at RSNA to educate attendees on AI and what it’s capable of and to explore partnerships with large device companies, startups — Powell noted many of the young companies at the show are building their algorithms on NVIDIA’s computing platform — and the clinical providers, who have the data necessary to create new applications with AI.

“The clinicians have the data and the data is incredibly valuable,” Powell said. “So they should understand what it means to them to have that data and what role that they’re going to play in this evolution of artificial intelligence.”

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