LONDON, England, October 6, 2023 (Newswire.com) - – ThinkSono Ltd (“ThinkSono”) a leading Ultrasound AI company, today announced it has joined Butterfly Garden, an artificial intelligence (AI) Marketplace launched by Butterfly Network, Inc, (“Butterfly”) a digital health company transforming care through the power of portable, semiconductor-based ultrasound technology and intuitive software.

Under this partnership, ThinkSono plans to build ThinkSono AI training solutions and ThinkSono Guidance, a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) clinical solution for use with Butterfly’s single-probe, whole-body handheld ultrasound system, subject to applicable approvals and authorizations. ThinkSono and Butterfly aim to enable healthcare practitioners to learn several key point-of-care ultrasound scans, including the detection of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Venous thromboembolism
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with a major global burden of disease. Worldwide, the incidence of VTE is 1–3 per 1000 individuals, rising to 2–7 per 1000 in individuals aged over 70 years, and 3–12 per 1000 in those over 80 years. VTE, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolus (PE) are the leading cause of hospital-related disability-adjusted life years lost.

Using these estimates, and using the most conservative incidence figure, globally at least 7.7 million people will require investigation for VTE every year. An aging population across many countries will lead to a greater health burden, particularly in middle- and low-income countries where early death from infection is decreasing.

Mortality from VTE is common, a European study estimated 534,000 deaths per year and a similar study in the US reported 300,000 deaths per year. DVT has a high level of morbidity. 30–50% of the surviving patients develop long-term symptoms in their affected leg (post-thrombotic syndrome).1

Opportunity for the Future

In August 2023, Butterfly Network launched Butterfly Garden, allowing third-party developers access to its proprietary SDK and APIs to build new AI applications that work in conjunction with Butterfly’s imaging platform, bringing with it access to their prominent point-of-care ultrasound customer base. ThinkSono, with its real-time ultrasound AI capabilities, was an ideal match for the program.

Fouad Al Noor, CEO and Co-Founder of ThinkSono commented, “We are hugely excited to deploy ThinkSono’s real-time AI software on Butterfly’s platform due to the extensive reach, real-time ultrasound streaming capabilities and integration with the entire Butterfly ecosystem. Butterfly has the largest community of handheld POCUS users worldwide, and so it was a natural choice for us to seek to partner with them.”

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