Augmented-reality trauma ultrasound

Put the specialist
where the patient falls.

Intelliview uses patented AI and augmented reality to map a patient's internal anatomy from a handful of points on the skin, then guides anyone to a specialist-grade trauma ultrasound, right at the point of injury.

Actual headset capture · Intelliview early prototype on Apple Vision Pro

The problem

Every year, people die from injuries no one can see.

A soldier caught in a blast. A driver pulled from a wreck on a rural highway. On the outside, they may look fine. On the inside, they're bleeding. In a hospital, an ultrasound specialist would find it in minutes.

  • The scannerUltrasound fits in your hand, runs on a phone, and is already in the field.
  • The scienceeFAST exams find internal bleeding and collapsed lungs in minutes.
  • The specialistThe years of training it takes to know where to look, and what you're looking at.

The technology

What if anyone could perform a specialist-grade eFAST?

Our patented technology, developed in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, predicts where a patient's organs are from just a handful of points on the outside of the body, then shows that map on the patient through augmented-reality glasses.

  1. Patent drawing: a headset wearer marking external landmarks on a patient's body
    01

    Mark a few landmarks

    The user touches a handful of external points on the patient: shoulders, sternum, hips. No CT scanner, no imaging suite.

  2. Patent drawing: a body outline with predicted organ positions drawn inside the torso
    02

    AI predicts the anatomy

    A model trained on hundreds of CT scans predicts the size and position of 66 structures in the chest and abdomen for this specific patient.

  3. Patent drawing: an ultrasound probe being guided to a target on the torso
    03

    AR guides the probe

    The predicted anatomy appears on the patient, and guides a portable ultrasound probe to exactly the right spot for each view of the exam.

66 anatomical structures predicted from surface landmarks
100s of CT scans used to train the prediction model
U.S. Patent
12,582,481
Predictive internal anatomy visualization
World Changing
Idea
Fast Company recognition for the research behind it

In early studies, people with no medical training at all used the system to perform an eFAST exam.

The prototype

From the research lab to the field, on today's most advanced hardware.

The original research ran on HoloLens. We are rebuilding it as a product, starting with an early prototype on Apple Vision Pro. Every image below is captured from the headset.

Headset view: a full-size anatomical patient lying in a room, with green landmark points labeled chin, jugular notch, xiphoid process and hip peaks
Intelliview early prototype · Apple Vision Pro · actual headset capture
Headset view: a stylus marking the left acromion on a virtual patient, with confirmed landmarks shown as green dots

I mark a few points on the body

A stylus or a pinch tags anatomical landmarks such as the acromion, xiphoid process and hip peaks. Each point turns green as it is confirmed.

Headset view: labeled landmarks fitted to the virtual patient while a hand scanner reveals the structures beneath

The anatomy fits itself to the patient

Registration scales and aligns a full anatomical model to the captured landmarks, so what you see lines up with the body in front of you.

Headset view: an open hand dissolving the skin of the anatomical model to reveal organs and vessels in the head and neck

And now I can see what's underneath

An open hand works like a scanner, dissolving the surface to reveal what lies beneath, right where it is.

  • Skin
  • Muscle
  • Bone
  • Organs
  • Vessels
Roadmap

Ultrasound in place

Connect the probe so the live image appears exactly where it touches the body.

Built-in telepresence

A physician hundreds of miles away can stand beside the medic and guide the scan.

Markets

Starting where the need is most urgent: trauma.

Military medics

Point-of-injury assessment, where the nearest radiologist may be hours away.

EMS

Know what's bleeding before the patient reaches the hospital.

Disaster response

Triage many casualties when specialists are scarce.

Rural emergency rooms

Specialist-grade imaging without a specialist on site.

From there, the same platform grows into

  • Obstetrics
  • Sports medicine
  • Medical training

Team

Clinical depth, and a track record of shipping.

Portrait of Dr. Sendhil Subramanian

Sendhil Subramanian, MD

Chief Executive Officer · Co-founder

Interventional radiologist with more than two decades of reading the scans Intelliview teaches anyone to take.

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Portrait of Michael Suarez

Michael Suarez

Chief Technology Officer · Co-founder

Thirty years turning government research into shipping products, across medical devices, government R&D and enterprise software. EE, University of Michigan. Builder of Intelliview's Vision Pro prototype.

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  • The scanner
  • The science
  • The specialist: Intelliview

The scanners are already in the field. The science is proven. Now we're putting the specialist there too.

We're looking for clinical, defense and investment partners to take it the rest of the way.

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