GE HealthCare, NVIDIA Partner on Autonomous X-ray & Ultrasound

GE HealthCare revealed a collaboration with NVIDIA at GTC 2025, broadening the duo’s existing relationship to focus on pioneering innovation in autonomous imaging. The partnership will begin with autonomous X-ray tech and autonomous applications in ultrasound.

Autonomous X-ray and ultrasound use artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled software to capture and analyze medical images with the aim of minimizing burden on technicians and radiologists. GE HealthCare plans to build AI-enabled X-ray and ultrasound systems by leveraging NVIDIA’s Isaac for Healthcare platform, which is built on NVIDIA’s three computers used to build physical AI. This includes NVIDIA Omniverse for robotic simulation workflows.

The company plans to train, test, and tune the autonomous devices in a virtual environment before deployment using the NVIDIA Cosmos platform for synthetic data generation, physics-based sensor simulation, imitation, and reinforcement learning.

The two companies will first address autonomous X-ray systems, specifically possible use of NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare and Jetson platforms. GE HealthCare intends to simulate various scenarios using Isaac in order to help automate repetitive tasks the technologist performs in an exam room. The duo will also explore developing machine-to-patient interactions to autonomously lead the patient through the scan process.

Building autonomous ultrasound systems seeks to lower the burden on sonographers and radiologists. These could streamline workflow and reduce demanding physical strain from repetitive motions. AI can also take on more of the daily workload through advancements in image understanding and robotic navigation, the companies said.

The work builds on a long relationship between GE HealthCare and NVIDIA that span many areas of GE HealthCare’s business. Last year, GE HealthCare revealed it used NVIDIA tech to develop its pioneering research foundation model, SonoSAMTrack.

“GE HealthCare has a deep history of firsts in medical imaging, and we continue to build upon our legacy of innovation as a healthcare solutions provider,” said Roland Rott, president and CEO, Imaging at GE HealthCare. “We are excited about our expanded relationship with NVIDIA and the potential of autonomous X-ray and ultrasound as we are focused on unlocking smarter, more automated solutions that enhance efficiency, standardize imaging, and help ease the burden of increased volumes and double-digit staff shortages on healthcare professionals.”

“Artificial intelligence and physical AI offer an incredible opportunity to expand global access to GE HealthCare’s advanced imaging systems,” added Kimberly Powell, vice president of healthcare at NVIDIA. “Working together to train and test autonomous solutions, we will accelerate the future of medical imaging capabilities, starting with the two most widely used modalities: X-ray and ultrasound.”