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AI is now revolutionizing early cancer detection | Emi Gal, CEO of Ezra Mar 6, 2024 · 72 mentions

• ▶ 0:01 Matt Turck Today we have a fantastic episode with Amy Gal, who's the CEO of Ezra AI, a mission-driven company that helps detect cancer early using AI.
• ▶ 0:58 Matt Turck Uh, one, because, um, Ezra is actually a member of the FirstMark family, which, uh, actually happens sort of rarely out of all the people that, um, we interview in this context. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:20 Emi Gal He's kind of one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in the US, and he joined the board, and he's going to help us, uh, scale Ezra. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:03 Emi Gal I, um, uh, studied applied mathematics and computer science in Romania, which is where I'm from, uh, started a company in a very different space than Ezra before, uh, in the advertising technology space. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 4:45 Emi Gal And actually the, the, the funny story is the, the idea for Ezra came on my honeymoon. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:48 Emi Gal The second thing we did is we ran a lot of tests, validation tests, prior to launching Ezra with people that we knew had issues of potential cancer and so on that we scanned in order to ensure that we could find the lesions. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:22 Emi Gal Making MRI more accurate, uh, making, basically doing all of the things that we've been working on at Ezra for five years now. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:48 Emi Gal So the way Ezra works is you go on Ezra.com, 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 13:48 Emi Gal And the thesis for Ezra, actually from day one, it's kind of been a constant, has been, uh, build a scan that's high end, our 2000 dollar scan, use the success of that to build a scan that's kind of more mid-market, that's our 13 50 scan,… 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:50 Emi Gal We have an AI called SR Flash.
• ▶ 15:01 Emi Gal We then have an AI called Ezra Assist that assists radiologists when they read MRI images.
• ▶ 15:12 Emi Gal And then once the radiology report is generated, it, uh, we have an AI called Ezra Reporter that gets
• ▶ 15:40 Emi Gal At the same time, the SROP pitch is that you should do it every year. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 19:40 Emi Gal You know, the scan prior to the Ezra Flash enhancement, and after the Ezra Flash enhancement, it's like, they're worlds apart.
• ▶ 20:00 Matt Turck Um, so how did you train then Ezra Flash? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 20:29 Emi Gal The Ezra Flash, the, uh, prostate AI, the assist, we call it now, and then Ezra Reporter.
• ▶ 20:29 Emi Gal The Ezra Flash, the, uh, prostate AI, the assist, we call it now, and then Ezra Reporter.
• ▶ 23:04 Emi Gal So when we started, we, the, to train the prostate AI, even before we launched Ezra, uh, we used the public data set available, um, called the prostate X data set that the NCI put together to build the prototype, to show to investors that… 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:04 Emi Gal So when we started, we, the, to train the prostate AI, even before we launched Ezra, uh, we used the public data set available, um, called the prostate X data set that the NCI put together to build the prototype, to show to investors that… 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:53 Matt Turck So that's, uh, how Ezra Flash work.
• ▶ 25:29 Emi Gal Using our Assist AI, our Prostate AI, you can actually measure the size of a lesion very, very accurately over time.
• ▶ 25:29 Emi Gal Using our Assist AI, our Prostate AI, you can actually measure the size of a lesion very, very accurately over time.
• ▶ 26:09 Matt Turck Out of business, and it's a dying profession because it's going to be replaced by AI, but it sounds like, you know, fast forward to, fast forward to, um, 2024, a company like Ezra still wants to partner, uh, with radiologists, right? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:58 Emi Gal Yeah, so the reporter AI has actually had a significant improvement in efficiency for us internally at Ezra. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:58 Emi Gal Yeah, so the reporter AI has actually had a significant improvement in efficiency for us internally at Ezra. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:36 Emi Gal In our case, if we find something, is it cancer, or is it something else? 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 32:46 Emi Gal You know, in Ezra Assist, how do you ensure that you don't bias the radiologist with something? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:33 Emi Gal And on the reporter side, on the generating a report, we minimize false positives by not allowing the AI to go beyond the scope of our predefined domain.
• ▶ 35:47 Emi Gal And part of why we've been able to ship Ezra Flash is because he brought in very, very specific type of knowledge that maybe a handful of people in the world have.
• ▶ 39:40 Emi Gal Honestly, that's how I thought Ezra would be. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:21 Emi Gal I do Ezra scans, I do all sorts of battery of tests, DEXA scans, body composition, and so on. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:56 Emi Gal So we really want to push for, um, having Ezra locations, partner locations in as many kind of large metro areas in the U.S. as possible.