Doctor describes first robotic high intensity ultrasound procedures with Focal One, Unfold AI [Video]

Last month, EDAP TMS SA and Avenda Health said they will jointly offer personalized prostate cancer care using Avenda’s Unfold AI technology. Their stated goal is to launch the Focal One robot using an artificial intelligence for high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU, procedures.

Avenda Health’s Unfold AI is a multimodal AI decision-support platform cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It can build 3D patient-specific cancer maps that reveal the extent of tumors that would otherwise be invisible, it said. This enables physicians to avoid leaving cancerous tissue behind while sparing healthy surrounding tissue. 

By combining Unfold AI’s planning with the Focal One robotic HIFU platform, EDAP and Avenda claimed that urologists can provide a more tailored, patient-specific HIFU ablation procedure for their prostate cancer patients.

Wayne G. Brisbane, M.D., an assistant professor of urology at the University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, worked with Avenda and …