Episode 1: AI for assessing prostate cancer, with Dr Antony Rix CEO of Lucida Medical
The Medical AI Podcast - En podkast av Dr. Felix Beacher
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Felix is joined by Dr Antony Rix CEO of Lucida Medical, a company developing software for helping detect prostate cancer from MRI scans. Between four and five million people are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. Lucida Medical aims to distil expert radiologists' knowledge into AI driven tech, making diagnoses repeatable at any level of medical knowledge, slashing costs, and saving lives. Join me, Dr Felix Beacher, on today’s podcast we discuss the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in assessing prostate cancer with Dr Antony Rix, the CEO of Lucida Medical. Dr Rix shares his insights on how improving med tech capabilities can reduce backlogs of patients and needs that are straining health services. We also cover the potential to reduce misdiagnosis rates and the amount of time patients must wait for results. If you're interested in learning more about the role of AI in healthcare and the future of medical diagnosis, this podcast episode is a must-listen. Guest Profile Dr Antony Rix has spent the last 30 years researching, working and building companies in artificial intelligence, signal processing and software and now works as the CEO of Lucida Medical. His first start-up, Psytechnics (acquired 2011 by Netscout) was built on his PhD research, patents and an international standard that he helped secure. He then gained experience on medical devices and large development programmes as Senior Consultant at TTP, before returning to start-ups to found industrial sensing specialist 8power. Antony has focused on AI for cancer imaging since 2018. Original music by Felix Beacher: https://youtu.be/JS93808r-W4