Perimeter Medical Imaging AI Announces Webinar Featuring AI Expert, Anantha Kancherla, Discussing Trends in the Use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Applications
TORONTO and DALLAS, April 16, 2024 /CNW/ - Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc. (TSXV: PINK) (OTC: PYNKF) (FSE: 4PC) ("Perimeter" or the "Company") – a commercial-stage medical technology company – announced a newly published webinar, "Trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Innovators in Healthcare" featuring a fireside chat with Anantha Kancherla, former head of Meta's AI platform, and current member of Perimeter's Board, alongside Perimeter's CEO, Adrian Mendes.
Adrian Mendes, Perimeter's Chief Executive Officer stated, "The ability to use AI to make products more useful for customers is going to differentiate successful companies from those who fail. With this in mind, Perimeter has built world-class leadership on its Board, the management team, and the engineering department. This webinar showcases the depth of Perimeter's knowledge to apply machine learning models and artificial intelligence tools to our pipeline of products – both existing and still in development. Further, we have – and continue to grow – a large proprietary image data set, which allows us to truly capture the value of AI with our ability to train models in a way that is very hard for other companies to replicate."
Webinar Details
Title: Trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Innovators in Healthcare: Fireside Chat with Perimeter Medical Imaging AI
Host: Martin Gagel, Radius Research
Speakers:
Adrian Mendes, CEO, Perimeter Medical AI
Anantha Kancherla, VP, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, GM Motors
Link: View webinar here
Anantha Kancherla is vice president of advanced driver-assistance systems at GM Motors. Previously Anantha was Engineering Director at Meta, where he was head of its AI platform. Prior to Meta, as VP of Engineering at Lyft, Anantha led the Level5 software team responsible for building the self-driving car. Anantha previously worked on Windows at Microsoft focusing on DirectX, Graphics and UI. In his former role at Facebook, Anantha participated in pioneering the building of mobile software at scale for over a billion users all over the world. Anantha obtained a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a MS degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Adrian Mendes is Chief Executive Officer at Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc. Adrian is an experienced technology executive with 25 years of experience building and scaling technology companies across many different industries. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer at Groq Inc, an AI hardware company, which he joined shortly after formation in 2016 and helped scale to one of the leading startups in that space. Prior to Groq, Adrian spent several years both investing in and founding technology focused companies in North America and internationally with a focus on helping them scale organizationally as well as operationally. Adrian began his career at Cypress Semiconductor where he spent 14 years leading various marketing, finance, and operations functions. Adrian graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
About Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc.
Based in Toronto, Canada and Dallas, Texas, Perimeter Medical Imaging AI (TSX-V: PINK) (OTC: PYNKF) (FSE: 4PC) is a medical technology company driven to transform cancer surgery with ultra-high-resolution, real-time, advanced imaging tools to address areas of high unmet medical need. Available across the U.S., our FDA-cleared Perimeter S-Series OCT system provides real-time, cross-sectional visualization of excised tissues at the cellular level. The breakthrough-device-designated investigational Perimeter B-Series OCT with ImgAssist AI represents our next-generation artificial intelligence technology that is currently being evaluated in a pivotal clinical trial, with support from a grant of up to US$7.4 million awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The company's ticker symbol "PINK" is a reference to the pink ribbons used during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Perimeter B-Series OCT is limited by U.S. law to investigational use and not available for sale in the United States. Perimeter S-Series OCT has 510(k) clearance under a general indication and has not been evaluated by the U.S. FDA specifically for use in breast tissue, breast cancer, other types of cancer, margin evaluation, and reducing re-excision rates. The safety and effectiveness of these uses has not been established. For more information, please visit www.perimetermed.com/disclosures.
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Released April 16, 2024