Living Optics, a leader in hyperspectral imaging (HSI), today announced its latest real-time blood perfusion demonstration, built on the NVIDIA Jetson platform, offering a glimpse into the future of edge AI for healthcare, life sciences, and precision imaging.
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The live demo showcases how Living Optics' spectral vision technology can distinguish between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in real-time, providing critical insights that can enhance surgical planning, triage, and patient monitoring. Initially developed for use in a scientific environment, the company's breakthrough approach now brings high-resolution hyperspectral capabilities to compact, deployable systems at the edge of the network.
This advancement has garnered growing attention across NVIDIA's ecosystem, including executive audiences seeking to explore next-generation edge AI solutions for multiple use cases and industries. Today, Living Optics' edge-based solution is better positioned for industrial and remote use, maintaining high imaging fidelity while meeting the performance, power, and size constraints of real-world systems.
"Bringing real-time hyperspectral imaging to the edge is a transformative leap, and the Jetson platform is what makes it possible," said Dr. Steve Chappell, CTO and Co-founder of Living Optics. "We're demonstrating how HSI can deliver practical, high-impact value in industrial quality control, environmental monitoring, and remote sensing, from factory floors to wildfire zones and coastal waters."
By turning spectral insights into immediate, actionable data, Living Optics bridges the gap between scientific imaging and applied AI. Its software-defined platform enables developers and researchers to extract the unique spectral fingerprints of materials, tissues, or substances, enhancing machine perception across various industries.
Hyperspectral imaging traditionally required large lab-based systems. Living Optics' innovation lies in making it fast, compact, and accessible for integration into healthcare, robotics, food inspection, and smart manufacturing, wherever decisions need to be made at the edge.
With use cases expanding rapidly and interest from healthcare and industrial partners alike, Living Optics continues to demonstrate how real-time spectral intelligence can reshape machine vision across the global economy.