Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]

Post by DavidHolz » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 2:05 AM UTC

pcrh wrote: post #3

There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near sufficient to detect small changes to anatomy, let alone monitor them over time. Future developments could obviously improve on that. [0] “Whole Cross-Sectional Human Ultrasound Tomography” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.00110

Stay tuned for new versions of the scanner! Hopefully later this year. The physical limitations are still far beyond all the current implementations. We'll see how far we can push it. If it's not far enough to be useful then at least we tried :) but I'd be surprised if it isn't useful so that's why im betting our own money on it.

Post by DavidHolz » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 2:06 AM UTC

KaiserPro wrote: post #29

concrete_head wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the video David says he's building it just because he wants to. It really sounds like his own passion project. No investors. It's a nice position to be in. Now I don't know this guy in the slightest. One view could be he's just a geek like us living out his dream building cool potentially useful stuff not entirely sure where it will lead. A cynical view is it's all about $$$$. Either way it's great HN content!

I should have made clear, my suspicions are not really around the engineers running this, its the people who are less motivated by the original cause that can see $$$ in it. Thats the point right, most of us would, if given the chance, divert some funding to work on a passion project that could easily save lives. That I applaud and would love more people to be able to do.

We have no investors, we could pocket the money. We're choosing instead to spend it on projects like this <3

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