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This Week in Startups

Next Unicorns: Bringing AI-powered solutions to medical analysis with PathAI CEO Andy Beck | E1780

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today’s show:

PathAI CEO Andy Beck joins Jason to discuss AI in the medical field (1:58), demos his product, which uses AI to analyze millions of cells (15:37), and much more!

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Time stamps: (00:00) PathAI CEO Andy Beck joins Jason (1:58) How AI aids with health diagnosis (5:46) Analyzing biopsy images and labs switching to digital (7:43) How images and annotations from Pathologists are used to train the AI model (9:58) Eight Sleep - Go to https://eightsleep.com/twist to check out the Pod Cover and get $150 off at checkout! (11:30) Resistance to machine learning in the medical field (15:37) Andy demos PathAI’s AIM-PD-L1 algorithm (21:01) The measure it manage it phase and the road to more effective diagnosis (26:01) Carta - Get 10% off your first SPV at https://carta.com with promo code TWIST (27:27) The past 50 years in cancer diagnosis and looking into the next 10 (33:49) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (35:05) The use and scale of datasets and creation of systems in a capitalistic society (45:40) How PathAI is able to minimize hardware constraints (48:22) Democratizing access to health expertise

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0:00.0

It's just super exciting the way this whole field will be transformed.

0:03.9

As you mentioned, it's kind of like two big platform shifts, essentially at once,

0:08.4

because most of it is not yet, like you mentioned, microscopes aren't even connected.

0:12.7

So just the basic advances of digitization, creating an inexhaustible digital resource

0:18.4

that you continue learning from without destroying any tissue over time,

0:22.0

connecting all of these brains together across the world is just a huge platform advance in itself.

0:28.7

The advantages of cloud and digital being connected. And then at the same time,

0:32.8

you know, as that's being transformed, we're getting the substrate for training all these new

0:36.7

models can do things at lower cost, more accurate, more reproducible, and more predictive.

0:42.6

So like this is like, you know, where things are going, and I agree with you within five to 10 years,

0:46.8

you know, the world of pathology and diagnostics for drug development, as well as for clinical care,

0:53.6

I think will be totally transformed by this. This week in startups is brought to you by

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1:18.9

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1:40.8

All right, everybody, welcome back to this week in startups. I'm really excited for our next

1:45.6

presenter here, our next founder. His name is Andy back. He's a CEO and co-founder of Path AI.

1:50.8

And Path AI is a research platform. It's designed to improve the speed and accuracy of cancer

1:57.0

diagnosis and treatment. Every time we have a conversation about AI, the past decade, the incredible

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