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Nvidia’s deep learning enhanced imagery can show a beating heart [updated]

Nvidia's Clara
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi

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Nvidia showed off deep learning visualization 3D imagery of a beating heart, based on enhanced inferences from crude black-and-white ultrasound scans.

Nvidia showed a demo dubbed Clara, a medical imaging supercomputer. Nvidia showed a beating heart in motion, based on an AI estimation of a heart from another ultrasound scan.

“We post-process it using AI to infer more computational information from it,” said Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, in a keynote speech at the company’s GTC 2018 event in San Jose, California. “We call this a medical imaging supercomputer.”

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“Our strategy at Nvidia is to accelerate GPU computing at the speed of light,” Huang said.

Update: We removed an image that incorrectly suggested that Nvidia’s hardware and software was used to create imagery of a baby in a womb. The image was created with Philips technology.