Michael Singer-BrainScope-An AI-Based, Handheld Device for Objectively and Reliably Assessing Traumatic Brain Injuries
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In the US alone, approximately five to 10 million people require a brain injury assessment and potential intervention every year; globally, that number rises to somewhere between 75 and 100 million. These numbers may shock you, but what's perhaps even more shocking is that as it currently stands, brain injury assessments are highly subjective, relying more upon a particular clinician's capabilities and experience with diagnosing brain injuries than on any form of objective measurement. This has not only led to misdiagnoses, but an extreme overuse of CAT scan technology.
Michael Singer is the CEO of BrainScope, a company that's developed an AI-based, non-invasive, handheld device capable of helping clinicians objectively and reliably determine whether or not a patient actually needs a CAT scan to look for bleeding in the brain, and identify whether or not a patient has suffered from a functional brain injury, such as a concussion, which is something that CAT scans can't do.
Developed in coordination with military and clinical partners, the BrainScope device is applied to a patient's forehead in order to measure the electrical activity in their brain and provide as assessment as to whether or not the patient is at risk of a bleed in the brain, and whether or not the patient has suffered a concussion. As a whole, this device provides a panel of capabilities that allow clinicians to feel more confident in making decisions about what's best for an individual patient.
Tune in for all the details about this exciting new technology, and visit www.brainscope.com to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. My guest is Michael Singer. |
| 0:32.0 | He is the CEO of Brain Scope and the website is |
| 0:35.3 | Brainscope.com. So Mike, thank you for coming, appreciate it. My pleasure. Thanks |
| 0:40.6 | for having me. Yeah and I see Brain Scope you know, you're dealing with traumatic brain injury |
| 0:45.6 | TBI assessment, but you know if you would let listeners know what's the premise of the company |
| 0:50.0 | and then we'll get into your background and how you got into this area. |
| 0:53.0 | Sure. |
| 0:54.0 | So the premise of the company is pretty straightforward. |
| 0:56.0 | Today there's a major national conversation on traumatic brain injury and concussion |
| 1:02.0 | and so there has to be an objective way to assess and measure a person's |
| 1:10.4 | brain and to come up with an ability that can give clinicians something that they can use and rely upon that is much better than just a couple of fingers in the air. |
| 1:21.0 | So that's how they're diagnosing traumatic brain injury? |
| 1:25.0 | I mean holding up, you know, how many fingers am I holding up and |
| 1:28.0 | if the person says the right number, you know, get out there and play and if they said have the wrong number then they may look into it further? |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, so if you just take a step back and you start to look at brain injury assessment today, |
| 1:40.0 | it's very much of a subjective capability and it just depends on how smart the clinician |
| 1:46.2 | is, how experience they have in dealing with these different kinds of patients. |
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