Singular Health Group (ASX: SHG) says it has successfully integrated digital dentistry technology invented in Belgium into its “3Dicom” viewer that provides medical practitioners and patients with immersive 3D images.
The company has today revealed what it describes as a “significant development milestone” after connecting its medical technology with Belgium-based Relu’s AI-driven dental imaging model. The integration of the two technology platforms means that 3D dental imaging can be overlaid onto a patient’s medical images.
Relu says its high-tech product automates many of the manual tasks that dentists and dental technicians do on a daily basis and Singular believes integrating it into its 3Dicom digital viewer will produce a clearer image of a patient’s issues. It will have the ability to be exported for 3D printing to further aid diagnosis and treatment and would be sold on a pay-per-use basis.
Management says it is the first time that such a third-party integration has been made through an application programming interface (API) – a mechanism that enable two software components to communicate with each other. It believes it opens the door for multiple additional third-party AI models to be integrated into its 3Dicom ecosystem, creating a global, single, unified viewer.
Singular’s 3Dicom digital imaging viewer was designed to give practitioners such as surgeons, radiologists and dentists the ability to convert conventional 2D MRI, CT and PET scans into immersive 3D images. The improved imaging provides a clearer insight into a patient’s medical problems and enables better surgical planning.
With the addition of third-party AI models, the company believes the program can evolve and progress towards a potentially lucrative pay-per-use AI marketplace, with insights and diagnostics that will potentially make 3Dicom the unified medical imaging viewer of choice.
We have been following Relu’s progress over the past few years as they’ve developed and refined their dental AI model and are excited to have integrated their AI model into our online workflows and the broader 3Dicom ecosystem.
Singular Health Group CEO James Hill
The company says it is using learnings from the Relu model integration to begin developing a “Public API”, which will provide AI model developers with documentation and licensed access to the 3Dicom viewer and allow for standardised integration of multiple third-party AI models into the 3Dicom product suite.
Management says the end-to-end dental AI segmentation workflow that has been developed through the Relu integration has triggered bookings for demonstrations to several prospective enterprise clients and commercial licensers in Australia, Europe and the United States. They include medical education institutions, patient-specific jaw surgery companies and big dental organisations.
Singular anticipates commercialising its third-party AI algorithms, including the Relu dental model, via a pay-per-use model that charges customers based on effective usage.
Relu is a computer visualisation company founded in 2019 by four Belgian engineering students with a passion for compute vision. The students say they recognised significant inefficiencies in the expensive and time-consuming dentistry profession, prompting them to develop an AI model to deliver more efficient insight to dentists and their patients.
The company created a licensable AI model and associated systems known as the “Relu Engine”, which is licensed to dental software companies across the globe.
Singular has been increasingly busy this year with some big moves in the US in recent months, including the receipt of a binding purchase order for its patented 3Dicom technology from Las Vegas-based Roseman University in Nevada. The US$100,000 (AU$152,000) binding purchase order is for a two-year period for 50 of the company’s 3Dicom R&D licenses and 5000 of its 3Dicom Patient licenses for college students and patients treated at the university’s medical school.
It marks a significant entry into a medical education market forecast to be worth some US$17.6 billion (AU$26.8 billion) by 2027.
Additionally, Singular also recently expanded its first enterprise order for 3Dicom in the US with Techworks 4 Good. The organisation acting on behalf of American veterans doubled its order up to 10,000 licenses.
The initiative allows veterans to upload and share medical records from their 3Dicom Patient account through online, desktop and mobile applications, greatly improving accessibility, portability and continuity of care.
The rapid evolution of Singular’s 3Dicom software, combined with its impending commercialisation possibilities, has the company poised to strike in a lucrative global market that will not be going anywhere anytime soon. The software that initially had online gaming developers helping with its design may soon become a big game in itself.
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