GE HealthCare and NVIDIA have announced a new collaboration for autonomous x-ray and ultrasound technologies at NVIDIA GTC 2025.
As part of an expanded relationship, GE HealthCare will utilize NVIDIA’s new Issac for Healthcare platform to develop AI-enabled x-ray and ultrasound systems. The goal of the new partnership is to utilize AI to alleviate the growing burden placed on radiologic technologists, sonographers, and radiologists. The companies had previously teamed up on the development of GE HealthCare’s SonoSAMTrack healthcare research foundation model.
Isaac for Healthcare is built on NVIDIA’s three computers for building physical AI technology, including NVIDIA Omniverse for robotic simulation workflows. GE Healthcare and NVIDIA will focus their efforts initially on autonomous technologies within x-ray systems, according to the vendors.
Using Isaac for Healthcare and synthetic data generation, GE HealthCare will simulate various scenarios in order to automate tasks performed by radiologic technologists in the patient exam room, according to the firm. What’s more, GE HealthCare and NVIDIA will work together to explore the development of machine-to-patient interactions that can autonomously lead the patient through the scan journey, the vendors said.
In ultrasound, the firms plan to investigate the development of autonomous ultrasound systems to streamline workflow and reduce physical strain from repetitive motions for sonographers and also to aid radiologists.
Prior to deployment, GE Healthcare will train, test, and tune autonomous ultrasound and x-ray devices using the NVIDIA Cosmos platform, which will facilitate synthetic data generation, physics-based sensor simulation, imitation, and reinforcement learning, according to the firm.
