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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Future of Customized Medical Manufacturing with Cambre Kelly

Additive Snack · 19 Sept 2023 · 26m · Episode 2

AI in practice: one real use of AI described

What this episode covers

Cambre Kelly, co-founder and CTO of restor3D, explains how the company vertically integrates additive and traditional manufacturing to produce personalized orthopedic implants. She details the scientific validation of gyroid lattice structures for bone growth and the strategic decision to keep production in-house to maintain agility and proprietary knowledge. Kelly also discusses recent acquisitions of Kenos Medical and Conformis to expand into ankle, hip, and knee procedures, as well as the use of AI for automating CT scan segmentation and design.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

Engineering & simulationAI driven auto segmentation

AI tools automate the conversion of 2D CT scans into 3D CAD models, reducing manual labor and improving turnaround time.

“I think the most notable would be AI driven auto segmentation. … the use of AI tools to enable some of that auto segmentation and get it, you know, 90% of the way there even, and then have the specialized, you know, technicians. kind of finish the last 10% of the work is a way to really reduce the overhead costs while also kind of improving. Um, the turnaround time on that part of the process…”

Cambre Kelly · Hear it at 19:57

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companies scaling up

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Companies
restor3D, Duke University, 3D Systems, Kenos Medical, Conformis, Georgia Tech, Drexel University
Products
3 ID platform

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