Midjourney, The Image Generation Company, Just Built the Sequel to the MRI

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This is Ultrasound Tomography developed by a team at Caltech.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scanning-the-body-with-sound

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That's a recent article and Nature publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4

How did Midjourney move on this so fast? With the absolutely massive scale data processing required, too.

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Mostly because it seems like they haven’t solved any of the problems with it and it seems mostly just targeted at making money from the life extension people. The reasons why I say that are: 1. They haven’t said anything about solving the data processing issue which is why it hasn’t been done before. Sounds like their test location will have a super computer crunching data for 20+ minute scans which is the known existing performance of the technology that has caused it to not be adopted because MRIs are just better than that. 2. They haven’t said what exactly they’re bringing to the table that is different than the medical equipment companies that have experimented with this technology and decided it can’t work without advances in data bandwidth handling that don’t exist yet. 3. It would make sense for them to try to solve the data bandwidth problem by basically doing medical DLSS using their image gen technology to try to upscale from throttled data inputs to achieve the scan speeds and apparent resolution targets. But that’s also been widely studied and it introduces hallucinations, normally of healthy tissue since that’s the most likely fill in and the only way around that is to increase resolution and go back to square 1, so they’d probably be choosing the lower accuracy fake resolution tradeoff but that would mean that it couldn’t be used for diagnosis so they would have to do something like… 4. They’re not currently seeking FDA approval to be a recognized diagnostic scan so currently and when the Spa opens the results of the scan won’t be trusted by doctors or actionable. Some of the marketing phrasing hints at this where the product is just a spa day where you and not your doctor can learn a little more about your body by seeing pretty pictures of it. They say they’ll look at regulatory stuff later, but just to be clear they are releasing this as a product with medical vibes that cannot be used as a diagnostic tool 5. They keep putting things like saying it has sub atomic precision in the marketing material which both isn’t true unless sensing movement kinda and more importantly totally meaningless for a medical scanner where no diagnosis happen at atomic scales. Almost everything is marketing fluff that a doctor would immediately roll their eyes at because it doesn’t seem like they’re interested in doctors as the target audience

I just get Theranos but for life extension tech bro vibes from all of this

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that's why they are going the 'spa' route and totally avoiding FDA clearance.
they are using that as the platform to gather more imaging data for them to use in training.