News
6 June 2024
Lucida Medical Ltd announces a distribution agreement with Sectra to offer Pi AI technology to help diagnose prostate cancer
Lucida Medical today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra. Through this agreement, the Lucida Pi application for diagnosing prostate cancer from MRI images will be offered through the Sectra Amplifier Marketplace. This greatly expands the availability of Pi to assist healthcare by improving the speed and accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis.
17 April 2024
Blackford and Lucida Medical partner to enhance prostate care
Blackford, the pioneering strategic AI platform and solutions provider, and Lucida Medical, a leading developer of AI for cancer imaging, today announced a commercial partnership to bring the Pi™ – Prostate Intelligence™ solution to healthcare professionals via the Blackford Platform.
Blackford provides healthcare professionals access to an extensive portfolio of more than 120 AI solutions designed to drive clinical accuracy and efficiency and improve patient outcomes. By integrating Lucida Medical’s advanced technology into the Blackford Platform, Blackford can offer healthcare providers more powerful tools to support analysis of prostate MRIs.
19 March 2024
Somerset’s NHS pioneers clinical use of AI software to transform prostate cancer diagnosis
A groundbreaking way of supporting doctors to diagnose prostate cancer using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology has launched in Somerset.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (FT) has joined forces with Cambridge-based technology company, Lucida Medical, as the first NHS trust in the UK to introduce its AI tool, called Pi, to work alongside teams of radiologists.
With support from charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Prostate Cancer Research, the Pi tool is being introduced at both Yeovil District and Musgrove Park hospitals to assist radiologists in detecting clinically significant prostate cancer, using an AI technique that looks at a prostate MRI scan.
12 February 2024
Macmillan Cancer Support is investing in Lucida Medical, a spin-off from the University of Cambridge that develops Pi™ software to help radiologists find cancer
London, UK: 12 February 2024 – Macmillan Cancer Support, the UK’s leading cancer charity, is investing £350,100 in Lucida Medical’s pioneering new AI platform, Pi™, with the aim of improving the speed and accuracy of prostate cancer tests. This could help to improve early detection and treatment and reduce the number of cancer-free patients going through more invasive investigative procedures, as well as potentially saving NHS time and money.
30 January 2024
Cancer detection company Lucida Medical and leading doctors in Cambridge and Hampshire launch a £1million project to develop precision medicine technology to identify and manage the most common cancer in men
CAMBRIDGE, UK (30 January 2024) – Lucida Medical, the University of Cambridge and Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been awarded funding by Innovate UK and the Office for Life Sciences to extend the ground-breaking Pi™ software platform to multiple clinical indications.
Already certified to support cancer diagnosis, this £1million programme will enable Pi™ to be used throughout a patient’s journey with prostate cancer, enabling more accurate and less invasive testing by using artificial intelligence (AI) to combine insights from MRI and clinical tests.
15 November 2023
ConcertAI’s TeraRecon Enhances its Eureka Clinical AI Platform with AI-Based Prostate Solutions from Lucida Medical
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 15, 2023—Concert AI’s TeraRecon, the advanced visualization and clinical AI SaaS company, announces the addition of Lucida Medical to its Eureka Clinical AI Platform ecosystem, to be deployed within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and European healthcare systems.
Pi™ (Prostate Intelligence™), Lucida Medical’s AI-machine learning software, is designed to help radiologists detect prostate cancer lesions from MRI, enabling faster and more accurate prostate cancer detection.
23 October 2023
Prostate cancer diagnosis just got easier with CE mark certification of Lucida Medical’s new AI software
Groundbreaking software by Lucida Medical, Pi™, demonstrates expert level of performance and exceptional promise of improving accuracy, cost, and time required in prostate cancer diagnosis.
CAMBRIDGE, UK (23 Oct 2023) – Lucida Medical Ltd, a Cambridge-based start-up company dedicated to improving cancer diagnosis, has announced it has received Class IIb CE certification for its AI-based prostate cancer detection software, Prostate Intelligence™ (Pi™)….
21st JANUARY 2022
Lucida Medical appoints Dr David Tuch as Chair to spearhead investment and growth
Cambridge, UK – 18 Jan 2022: Lucida Medical Ltd, the technology leader in AI to support magnetic resonance imaging of cancer, has appointed Dr David Tuch, an experienced life science entrepreneur, investor and executive, as Non-Executive Chair of the Board. David joins to help the company build on tremendous progress during 2021, including a key milestone CE mark for its Pi™ software, and a successful collaboration and technology demonstration with a major vendor and radiology network…
6TH SEPTEMBER 2021
PAIR-1 Prostate AI research-1 a retrospective study
Lucida Medical announce a Retrospective cohort validation study of AI-based prostate cancer diagnosis support software Pi ™ led by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHNFT) and Lucida Medical
16TH July 2021
Mark Hinton has joined Lucida Medical as Chief Technology Officer
Lucida Medical have been actively expanding its leadership team. We are proud to announce that Mark Hinton has joined as Chief Technology Officer. Mark brings deep technical experience – with a background in medical imaging in clinical research and software architecture – as well as a new energy to drive Lucida Medical into its next phase of growth.
I caught up with Mark to better understand his vision for Lucida Medical and share his answers to our questions about AI in healthcare.
24th june 2021
Lucida Medical joins GE Healthcare Edison™ Accelerator programme
Lucida Medical Ltd, the Cambridge, UK based start-up, has today announced that it has joined the Edison™ Accelerator, a programme designed by GE Healthcare in partnership with innovation organisation Wayra, to support early-stage and technologically advanced businesses developing AI applications for healthcare. The programme creates a collaborative environment for start-ups, research centres, hospitals, clinicians and large corporations across the EMEA region. It aims to foster open innovation and digital transformation of healthcare.
The figure illustrates the RTSTRUCT format segmentations output by the software. The segmentations are overlaid, on a 3D multi-planar reconstruction of the T2 axial image, together with the 3D mesh view.
Colours shown are:
• Red: index lesion
• Blue: prostate organ
• Grey: seminal vesicles
Smaller lesions are also visible, with the smallest indicated by the software using labels (e.g. Lesion 5-1).
1st june 2021
Lucida Medical receives CE marking for PI™, its AI-machine learning software for detecting prostate cancer from MRI, enabling faster and more accurate prostate cancer detection
Lucida Medical Ltd, the Cambridge, UK based start-up, has completed CE marking for its new machine learning-based prostate cancer detection software, Prostate Intelligence™ (PI™). Lucida is one of the first companies in the world to commercialise artificial intelligence software to identify cancer in prostate MRI scans. This crucial milestone enables the cutting-edge technology to be deployed within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and European healthcare systems.
19th March 2021
Cambridge University spin-out Lucida Medical secures substantial funding to develop AI for cancer screening
Cambridge start-up Lucida Medical has raised significant seed capital from a group of investors led by XTX Ventures and Prostate Cancer Research.
The multi-million-pound investment is a major advance towards Lucida Medical’s goal to disrupt the cancer diagnostic pathway with technology that finds cancer more accurately by analysing MRI, enabling radiologists to save time and patients to receive the best possible diagnosis and treatment.
The initial focus is prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men in Europe, Africa and North and South America, with 1.4 million diagnosed worldwide each year and 375,000 deaths. Earlier and better detection saves lives.
2nd December 2020
Multi-stage AI analysis system to support prostate cancer diagnostic imaging
A presentation by Antony Rix
Antony introduces Lucida’s multi-stage AI analysis system to support prostate cancer diagnostic imaging.
EuSoMII Virtual Annual Meeting, 24 October 2020.
2nd December 2020
Multi-stage AI analysis system to support prostate cancer diagnostic imaging
Lucida Medical Limited (AI) system
An Artificial intelligence (AI) system was developed to support interpretation of pre-biopsy prostate multiparametric MRI (mpMRI), aiming to improve patient selection for biopsy, biopsy target identification, and productivity of segmentation and reporting, in the prostate cancer diagnostic pathway.
2nd December 2020
ReIMAGINE
Lucida Medical is part of the ReIMAGINE consortium which seeks to change forever the way in which prostate cancer is diagnosed, the manner in which it is classified, the method by which risk is communicated, the utility associated with the diagnosis, the benefit that is derived from intervention and reduce the overall costs of care.
The precise risk-stratification that results from an image-based measurable-disease approach will allow us to determine whether progression in prostate cancer is clonally specified or is a transitional phenomenon.
The risk stratification of prostate cancer that will emerge from ReIMAGINE will permit a departure from today’s one-size-fits-all approach towards an individualised care that matches the very broad risk profile of this ill understood disease.
Our Partners
We collaborate with Cambridge University, we are a partner in the ReIMAGINE prostate imaging trial, are in the process of establishing collaborative partnerships with several UK NHS Trust hospitals to help further develop and validate and test Pi, our AI system for detecting prostate cancer from MRI.
