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Mecha Health

Mecha Health

Winter 2025

Foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer VisionHealth TechHealthcare

About Company

Mecha Health builds foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists. We take medical images and process them using proprietary models to produce accurate draft medical reports. Our first model was built in less than two months, and beat Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI on clinical accuracy metrics. On top of that, it’s two orders of magnitude smaller and trained with a quarter of the data. We are partnering with the largest privately owned radiology practice in the US and a multinational tele-radiology company to provide them with their own foundation model, enabling their radiologists to go from reading 1 scan per hour to 1 scan every 5 minutes. By charging on a per scan basis, x-ray report generation represents a 40B+ market opportunity.

Active Founders

Ahmed Abdulaal

Ahmed Abdulaal

Founder

Medical doctor @Imperial, where I gained entry to the most competitive deanery in the country. Microsoft PhD scholar in machine learning @UCL - I have more than 20 peer reviewed publications in medicine, digital healthcare, and machine learning - including first author publications in top AI venues such as ICLR. 360+ citations on google scholar. Ex Research Scientist at the Center for Artificial Intelligence @AstraZeneca. Building the future of automated radiology @Mecha Health.

Hugo Fry

Hugo Fry

Founder

Mathematics (BA) and Physics (MSc) graduate from the University of Cambridge, ranking top 30 in the university. British Physics Olympiad participant, ranking in the top 11 in the UK. Former ML interpretability research scholar (MATS), where I was the first in the world to use Sparse Autoencoders on vision models. My research has been cited by Anthropic and Google DeepMind. Currently working on building state of the art radiology report generation AI in a way that is interpretable and safe.

Ayodeji Ijishakin

Ayodeji Ijishakin

Founder

I am a Machine Learning & Medical Imaging PhD candidate from University College London (UCL). During my PhD I published work at tier-one Machine Learning venues (NeurIPS, ICML & ICLR), and was invited to present my work at international medical imaging conferences, Digitas, & Harvard Medical School. Before this startup I was poached by my Professors from UCL including the Head of Computer Science to be CEO for their spin-out. Currently building Radiology 3.0 by Automating reporting.

Nina Montaña Brown

Nina Montaña Brown

Founder

ex-ML Engineer across multiple medical device startups, with experience in FDA and CE marked medical devices, as well as LLM safety in healthcare. My PhD in Medical Imaging (UCL) focussed on surgical vision; my work has been patented, cited 100+ times, and published across the world's highest impact scientific venues (NeurIPS, ICLR). Currently building safe and interpretable radiology automations for the future @Mecha Health

Company Facts

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Team Size4
Founded2025
StatusActive