Grant for cloud-based AI platform

MRIguidance and Aidence collaborate to develop a cloud based platform for medical image data communication.

Utrecht, January 21st,  2019 – MRIguidance and Aidence, two artificial intelligence companies that focus on processing medical images join forces to develop a platform that communicates image data with hospitals. To this purpose they now have received a MIT R&D collaborations grant from the Region Utrecht. With this generic cloud platform hospitals will get a safe and standardised way of communicating medical image data to AI companies that work in the cloud.

“Many AI companies that focus on processing of medical images are facing similar challenges of communicating this patient data with hospitals.” says Marijn van Stralen, CTO at MRIguidance. “On the other side are the IT departments of hospitals approached by an increasing number of AI companies that want to communicate with their hospital systems. By working together on the development of a data communication platform, we can offer hospitals a better and standardised solution.

The MIT R&D Collaboration aims to stimulate innovative SME companies to innovate together. The regional focus ensures that the Region Utrechts focus domains Health and Smart are further being strengthened. The project will be completed within 1,5 year with a specific aim to also open the project up for other innovatieve AI companies.

Utrecht, February 2026 – MRIguidance has released a new update to BoneMRI, making the solution easier to use across the hospital workflow while expanding compatibility with scanners, systems, and IT environments.

A key feature of the release is new stitching functionality, which allows clinicians to generate combined anatomical regions of e.g. the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, into a single, continuous image, providing total spine views. This enables assessment of pathology across multiple spinal regions without switching between image series, which might improve clinical confidence by visualizing anatomical relationships in one comprehensive view, and reduce interpretation time by eliminating manual cross-referencing between sub-regions.

The update also introduces extended compatibility across imaging platforms and infrastructure. BoneMRI now supports pelvic region imaging across the full range of GE, Siemens, and Philips MRI scanners at both 1.5T and 3T. In addition, the software expands support for Enhanced DICOM processing and is now compatible with Windows Server 2025 OS via the MRIguidance Gateway.

These improvements enhance interoperability with MRI scanners and DICOM inputs, simplify coordination with hospital IT departments, and broaden anatomical and vendor coverage to support smoother clinical adoption.

The release also includes additional support and security enhancements.

The latest BoneMRI update benefits radiologists, MR technologists, IT teams, and surgeons, further strengthening BoneMRI’s role in efficient, radiation-free bone imaging across clinical workflows.

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