GrahamB wrote: Hi Leonenoel,
Thank you for your thoughts.
I think your points are very well taken, particularly where you have been a patient and can directly speak to the benefits of a more rapid assessment, but also the importance of the accuracy of that exam.
From my reading, it aligns with what you are saying as well, in that MRI still remains the gold standard for high resolution imaging.
The problem is you clearly point out is that the children, in particular, are not suited for an MRI since it can take as you mentioned 45-60 minutes.
I think this is whereVentripoint was ahead of the game, as this has been the focus of their work to use knowledge based reconstruction, to provide higher resolution imaging, and to do it in rapidly.
What I thought was interesting, and again validated the approach by Ventrapoint, is that they are now according to the GE website using this artificial intelligence reconstruction with MRI to not only provide better images but also to shorten the time of the procedure.
As they said:
. “Using a fully sampled acquisition, the images are high quality, but you can, even with a 12-fold acceleration, use more advanced reconstruction techniques such as compressed sensing or deep learning reconstruction, and you can recover the images quite nicely.”
https://www.gehealthcare.com/article/advancing-cardiac-magnetic-resonance-imaging-with-deep-learning-image-reconstruction If this is true, and validated, then I would take it that MRI now would be able to be done within 5 minutes?
I guess at the end of the day, what we think, is speculative, and it really will be up to the cardiologist decide the best risk benefit, in which procedure to order.
I still dont understand why VPT that has been around for a decade hasnt had any significant sales?
To me, this is why I am waiting to see sales.
Thia is where Cardiologists and hospitals validate the story.
People can speculate all they want, but at the end of the day giving away machines to "luminary sites" or having a promotional video does not mean the business case us there, if the Cardiologists are not buying the machines.
Sales will be the hardcore data that will show whether or not this is being taken up by the professionals that are actually using this, and this is what I am waiting for and would buy into the story right away.
Someone is going to do well with this as AI KBR is real, and can benefit patients and physicians.,
Of course we need to see margins and make sure that there is actually profit, but you have to think that GE knows all this since they are featuring a competitive product on the website.
The "alliance" alone doesnt mean much in this context, without more granular details.
All IMO-