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2026-06-23 Science & Technology
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Try out Retool's new AI app builder to safely connect your apps to your team's data and APIs - https://fandf.co/4e2lDe2 Founder of Midjourney, David Holz, just announced plans to make a new medical imaging device capable of full body scans which he claims is faster and cheaper than an MRI. But how does it work, if at all? #coding #programming #ai 🔖 Topics Covered - Midjourney Medical - Fullbody Ultrasonic Computational Tomography (FUCT) - Midjourney Spa - Will it work? Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev

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@CyberScribe-x86 2026-06-23

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@OvidianIdeals 2026-06-23

I absolutely want an AI model to hallucinate my medical imaging. "Sorry bro...you have 6 fingers. You're gonna die."

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@easyy376 2026-06-23

Someone definitely peed in that water

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@mimameta 2026-06-23

They should have renamed themselves to MedJourney

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@Tuuuuri 2026-06-23

I dont trust a company named "mid" to score high

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@vemorphose1167 2026-06-23

Unhinged title bruh

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@PeterLindstrom-x4w 2026-06-23

Medical physicist here: this is ultrasound tomography. It's awesome tech, actually, but the most obvious application is breast ultrasound tomography. The woman lies on her stomach with one of her breasts dipped into a bowl of water. The scan produces three images, one each for sound speed, attenuation, and reflectivity, and different tumor types show up best in different image types. That's one of the huge advantages. The resolution is about the same as MRI. Compared to mammography, you get 3D scans and, perhaps most importantly, it works well with dense breasts (whereas mammography, which typically produces 2D projection images, struggles here). So serious people are working on it and have been for awhile. The real breakthrough was computing power allowing for more traditional 3D iterative algorithms to generate images. AI didn't really have anything to do with it. AI is being integrated into all kinds of proposed image-generation algorithms, and that's my field actually, but that approach has serious challenges and limitations and AI is not essential in the slightest for ultrasound tomography.

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@thishandle 2026-06-23

"body composition ... which if you're watching this I could probably tell you as well." dying.

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@bennett2782 2026-06-23

0:20 thought this would go into a Theranos reference

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@Shapessoftware 2026-06-24

"Claude, make me a medical empire no mistakes"

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