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SpringBok Analytics will help prevent injuries of athletes with the help of AI: what the company does and who gave the money
SpringBok Analytics completed the initial stage of attracting investments by collecting $ 3 million. The organization uses artificial intelligence (AI) to convert 2D-MRT-scanes into three-dimensional digital models for muscle analysis.
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About financing
Springbok Analytics, founded in Charlotsville by engineers of the University of Virginia, cooperates with the NBA through the Launchpad program for startups and with NFL as part of a grant from the scientific and consultant council for researching injuries of a podokrey tendon.
The fundraising was led by the TRANSITION EQUITY PARTNERS investment company with the participation of the Chicago Blackhox NHL club and the previous Titletown Tech investor.
Cav Angels, a group of university graduates and the FSHD global research fund also participated in financing, which collects money to treat genetic muscle diseases.
What the company does
The initial initiative of SpringBok arose in 2009 as a result of research in the laboratory of the Biomedic engineer Sylvia Blker, aimed at studying the methods of assisting surgeons in the treatment of patients with cerebral paralysis.
When surgeons operated on children with cerebral paralysis, Blker explains, they did not have a way to look inside the muscles to determine which of them are damaged, deformed or healthy. This prompted the idea of developing a system of source parameters to determine a healthy muscles. “We started with healthy people, creating a database about how all the muscles of healthy people should look,” she said.
Achievements in the field of artificial intelligence helped transform Springbok reports from 50-hour manual labor to an hour-long automated process. The information coding muscles indicate the asymmetry of the right or left limb, their dimensions, as well as the SpringBok Score, which compares a person with others from a database with a similar body size.
The collection of these data and scanning will help Springbok develop a prognostic index for popliteal tendons to identify people with increased risk, and also determine what they can do to prevent injury. This is the essence of what Springbok does for NFL in a four -year project worth $ 4 million.
The organization specializes in the diagnosis of the lower extremities, but its technology can also be used to scan the shoulders, especially for injuries of the rotational cuff of the shoulder. Estimates of the whole body are possible, but this is still in the stage of research and development.
Source: Legalbet