New Delhi: NXP Semiconductors and GE HealthCare are collaborating to pioneer new advancements in edge AI innovation.
The collaboration highlights how the intelligence, low latency, resilience, and security offered by edge AI can transform certain workflows and empower clinicians to deliver improved patient care with simple, actionable insights.
GE HealthCare and NXP have formulated two new concepts, combining NXP’s edge AI expertise and portfolio with GE HealthCare’s experience in medical technology innovations.
The first concept brings edge AI capabilities to anaesthesia delivery in the operating room, intending to provide anesthesiologists with a reliable, hands-free way to interact with anaesthesia equipment using real-time voice commands.
This project is designed to help anesthesiologists attend to the patient in a dynamic and crowded operating room while reducing excessive cognitive load, alarm fatigue, and risk of human error.
The second concept is designed to support neonatal care through intelligent, live monitoring. This technology aims to detect whether an infant is crying or at rest, identify unwanted objects in the bed, or recognise if the baby has rolled onto their stomach — designed to help care teams and enable them to keep babies comfortable.
This concept uses agentic AI on the edge to log the event and alert clinicians, if appropriate. All image processing occurs locally using models leveraging the NXP eIQ AI Toolkit. No images leave the device, supporting strict security and privacy standards.
The development of both concepts is underpinned by GE HealthCare’s Responsible AI principles. This includes a focus on safety, security, privacy, validity, transparency, explainability, and fairness.
The concepts are based on NXP’s application processors with integrated neural processing units (NPUs), as well as a dedicated, standalone NPU, with software enablement from NXP’s eIQ AI Toolkit.
