Position
XDMD <> academia
| Collaboration based on shared values and objectives | Strong competition within academia |
| Focus on AI development and compliance for medical image analysis | Focus on scientific or career advancements (publishing papers, getting PhD or tenure) |
| Focus on what works | Focus on novelty |
| Publishing optional | Thou shall publish |
| Long-term continuity of expertise and experience | Expertise often tied to PhD students with long learning curves and fixed-term contracts |
| Multi-center data, enabling building foundation models | Easier access to data but often single-center only |
| Professional GPU cluster | Often limited computational resources |
XDMD <> industry
| Organization is small and flexible, communication fast and direct | Some organizations are large, more layers for decision making |
| We consider all anatomies, pathologies, and modalities | Most AI companies working on specific end products |
| Solution is part of shared objective | Solution not always possible because not part of product line |
| Deep understanding of medical imaging, decades of combined experience | Expertise and experience often dependent on few individuals within smaller team |
Location
The company is located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. This is the same city where Wilhelm Röntgen once lived as an aspiring physics student before his discovery of X-rays, which marked the birth of radiology and earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics. The ‘X’ in our name refers to X-rays, and the remaining letters follow almost naturally: the ‘D’ stands for Diagnostic task performed by Medical Doctors replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Our stance is: AI will replace tasks, not doctors. But AGI seems one prompt away!
Time
The company was founded in 2024.