Avatar Medical provides a VR platform that transforms DICOM medical imaging data into interactive 3D patient avatars, enabling real-time visualization for surgical planning and patient consultations. This technology enhances the accuracy of surgical preparations and improves medical education by allowing users to engage with detailed anatomical representations.
Funding
$9.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Traditional methods of visualizing medical imaging data, such as CT and MRI scans, often present challenges in surgical planning, patient consultation, and medical education due to their 2D nature and the difficulty in mentally reconstructing complex anatomical structures. This can lead to misunderstandings, longer preparation times, and less effective communication between surgeons, patients, and students.
Solution
Avatar Medical provides a software platform that transforms standard DICOM medical imaging data into interactive 3D patient-specific avatars, accessible in real-time. This allows surgeons to enhance pre-operative planning by visualizing anatomical detail with bone, vessels, muscles, nerves, and tumors. The platform improves patient consultation by providing a clearer understanding of pathology and treatment options, potentially reducing outmigration to other surgeons. Avatar Medical also offers an academy solution that reinvents medical education with XR, enabling students to master anatomy, radiology, and clinical decision-making through immersive and interactive technologies.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes surgeons across various specialties (neurosurgery, ENT, oncology, cardiovascular, vascular, urology, arthroplasty), medical educators, universities, hospitals, and simulation centers.
Features
- Converts DICOM data into interactive 3D avatars in seconds
- Maintains the integrity of the original data set for accurate anatomical detail
- Offers rapid surgical preparation, reportedly 4x faster for breast MRI analysis and surgical strategy assessment
- Supports therapeutic de-escalation by informing conservative versus radical treatment decisions
- Improves surgical decision-making and technique, reducing mistakes in surgical strategy assessment
- Provides 25 annotated anatomy modules covering major anatomical systems in French and English
- Includes pedagogical additions such as quizzes and usage reporting
- Offers an intuitive tool for creating XR content, 360° video, and anatomical trajectories
- Available locally, on mobile, and via the cloud
- FDA-cleared for processing, review, and analysis of CT and MR images for preoperative planning and intraoperative display (Avatar Medical Vision)
- CE-marked for visualizing CT and MR images in 3D and VR for surgical planning and intervention (Avatar Medical Vision)