HEALTHCARE AI
“ Suddenly , things that used to be rare or accidental findings , become methodical and quantifiable ”
ITAI HAYUT CEO AND CO-FOUNDER , SCOPIO LABS
Co-founder Erez Na ’ aman and Hayut both studied Applied Physics at the Hebrew University . After witnessing the evolution and power of AI , the two wanted to see how they could harness this to make an impact on the world .
“ We spent a lot of time in hospitals observing laboratory professionals in the haematology lab who still rely on analogue , outdated and labour-intensive practices , like counting cells manually and using traditional microscopes .”
They knew that with their backgrounds in physics , IT and medical device technology – along with the timely evolution of computer vision – they could use AI-powered analysis to bring microscopy and haematology into the digital age .
In 2015 , they got to work : all Na ’ aman and Hayut needed was to find a scanner to digitise slides at the highest resolution and then apply AI tools to the resulting image . However , at the time , no such scanner existed .
“ We realised we would need to build one ourselves – and that ’ s where the Scopio story began .”
Scopio Labs is the first ( and only !) company to solve the tradeoff between
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