To make the world's smallest ultrasound scanner.

Ultrasound can be said to be the most used imaging test methods, whether it is fetal examination, or the human organ examination, will use ultrasound.

Butterfly receptacle, a start-up in the US, has just announced a 100 million dollar investment, designed to create the world's smallest ultrasound imaging device, with the idea of using small devices such as cellphones to achieve ultrasound imaging. Jonathan Rothberg, the company's CEO, says his primary goal is to create an imaging system that is cheap enough to be affordable in the world's poorest corners. And, the system relies mainly on software to run, including using artificial intelligence experts developed technology to comb a series of images, so as to extract the automatic diagnosis of disease function, the diagnosis of the disease is mainly based on pattern recognition software.

"We want this product to be like a wide-angle lens in the iphone," Rothberg said. "For the use of the iphone for medical diagnostics, there have been a number of start-ups that have tried, such as the one we've previously reported, using iphones, image analysis and 3D printing techniques to diagnose cervical cancer and skin cancer, which greatly reduces the cost of diagnosis and treatment," Mobileoct said.

However, many details of the product are still in secrecy and are expected to be listed within the next 18 months. Butterfly's patent application describes this: it aspires to develop a compact, general-purpose ultrasound scanner that can instantly make a three-D image and put it on a person's chest to see the image inside him.

We can take a look at the concept of this product before we release the details: