AI firm Visla Labs adds $3M in funding

AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nov 7, 2018

Imaging artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Visla Labs said it has raised $3 million in seed funding.

The funding round was led by venture capital firm Lux Capital, with support from former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and former Twitter Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain, according to the company. Visla said it would use the capital to grow its team, add features for its radiology AI software, receive regulatory approval, and fund expansion and growth.

Visla was co-founded in 2018 by Kevin Quennesson, Wei-En Tan, PhD, and Alessandro Sabatelli. They met while studying and working at Stanford University, Apple, and Twitter, the firm said.

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Researchers explain the data preparation and structure of a proposed CNN-based deep learning model using mammography features to determine breast tumor staging. The image is available for use under a Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.

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Researchers explain the data preparation and structure of a proposed CNN-based deep learning model using mammography features to determine breast tumor staging. The image is available for use under a Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.

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Predictions and Grad-CAMs of ViT-based models on sample PET/CT, PET, and CT test images from the “positive” class. ViT was fine-tuned using training data for each modality. The bounding boxes depicted in the figure indicate malignant lesions. The top row of the Grad-CAMs shows important areas for “positive” predictions, and the bottom row shows areas for “negative” predictions. Image courtesy of Scientific Reports.

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A visual abstract of the study by the authors. Image courtesy of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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