Cephasonics Announces Next Generation Ultrasound AI to be Powered by the NVIDIA Clara Platform

Santa Clara, CA September 16, 2018 — Cephasonics today announced that it has selected the Nvidia Clara and Xavier framework to power their next generation architecture for Ultrasound AI & deep learning. AI and deep learning will have a dramatic impact not only on the quality of ultrasound imaging, but also on the ability to utilize ultrasound in innovative ways. AI and deep learning will enable ultrasound product developers and researchers to create new high-value imaging applications, where the computer can, not only display an ultrasound image, but also recognize, interpret, measure and act on the image data.

However, AI and deep learning applications present unique hardware and software demands. To deal with these unique requirements, and effectively implement AI and deep learning, Cephasonics is building on the proven AI capabilities of the Nvidia technology.  This will result in optimizing Cephasonics ultrasound systems for deep learning capabilities that can be easily accessed and utilized by ultrasound application developers. The result will be that medical technology companies creating new products based on Cephasonics platform will be able to quickly access the power of AI and deep learning in their products. 

At the heart of NVIDIA’s platform is Clara AGX -- a revolutionary computing architecture based on the NVIDIA Xavier AI computing module and NVIDIA Turing GPUs -- and the Clara software development kit, which helps developers create a wide range of AI-powered applications for processing data from existing imaging systems. Richard Tobias, CEO of Cephasonics, stated that “We are extremely excited about working with Nvidia and their Clara platform.  Nvidia’s AI and Deep Learning technologies with Clara AGX will dramatically expand our AI capabilities and open many new and exciting opportunities in how ultrasound imaging in exciting new applications from surgery to diagnostics and treatment.”

Collaborative AI Ultrasound Research Initiative

In addition to announcing their commitment to the Nvidia Clara AGX platform, Cephasonics also announced the launch of a collaborative AI in Ultrasound research initiative that will work on identifying high-priority AI functions, approaches and data models as well as new hardware architectures optimized for AI. A key objective of the initiative is to expand the overall understanding of the role of AI in ultrasound imaging and define key requirements to support deep learning and AI in ultrasound. The collaboration will focus on integrating Cephasonics’ ultrasound technologies along with key Cephasonics’ partner and customer ultrasound applications on NVIDIA’s Clara platform. 

University research programs interested in expanding AI applications in ultrasound, as well as companies interested in developing next-generation ultrasound applications that utilize AI based on the Cephasonics ultrasound platform, are invited to participate.   

About Cephasonics
Cephasonics is a worldwide supplier of state of the art ultrasound platforms as well as custom design and engineering services. Cephasonics provides AI-enabled hardware and software ultrasound imaging systems for ultrasound research and development as well as for companies to create and commercialize new ultrasound imaging solutions for medical and industrial applications. Its products include high-performance ultrasound platforms scalable from 64 to 4096 channels, comprehensive ultrasound software development kits and customer engineering and design services. More information on Cephasonics can be found at www.cephasonics.com.

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