AI-Driven non-invasive spinal deformity management

Momentum Health is an AI-based digital health platform for remote spine care management. From a 45-second video taken on a smartphone, their technology creates a photo-realistic 3D Model of the patient’s body and using AI predicts the degrees of spinal curvature and assesses the patient’s spinal deformity from the surface topography. They were co-founded by one of the top pediatric spine surgeons, Dr. Jean Ouellet, to address the 40 Million and growing North American population living with spine deformities. In less than 18 months, they have launched clinical studies and pilots at top Hospitals, including UCSF, Texas Scottish Rite and SickKids Hospital; have received FDA 510K Clearance, where they are the first AI Device cleared under the dept. Of Physical Medicine, and they are backed by the largest orthopedic association in the world (https://www.aofoundation.org/). They are starting with spine, but their vision is that by using the phone’s camera combined with AI, they will build a next generation patient-empowered medical imaging platform.

The internship project at Momentum Health is focused on advancing the field of AI-driven spinal deformity management. The intern will work on developing sophisticated machine learning models to predict the progression of spinal deformities and adapt existing AI algorithms for direct 3D mesh data input, aiming to revolutionize spine care diagnostics and patient monitoring.

Faculty Supervisor:

Liam Paull

Student:

Partner:

Momentum Health

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

Université de Montréal

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