Pediatric radiology AI
Helping doctors
help kids.
PedXR is an explainable AI safety net for children's chest X-rays. It flags what matters and shows clinicians why, so kids get the right diagnosis the first time, even in hospitals without a pediatric radiologist.
Most kids' X-rays are read without a pediatric radiologist
Children are imaged where they show up: usually a general or community emergency department, not a children's hospital. Specialist reads are scarce there, and the cost of a miss is high.
of pediatric chest X-rays read by general radiologists contain errors
And those reads take about 3× longer (~20 minutes) than a pediatric specialist's, which delays care for every other patient in the queue.
pediatric emergency department visits in the US every year
of those visits happen in general EDs, where few pediatric specialists are available
pediatric ED visits includes an X-ray
Why today's tools fall short
Children are not small adults
Kids' anatomy changes fast with age. Yet fewer than 3% of FDA radiology AI devices were trained on any pediatric data, and zero FDA-cleared tools detect pathology on pediatric chest X-rays.
Black-box AI isn't trusted
In our interviews, clinicians were clear: they won't rely on AI that gives answers without reasons. Trust requires being able to check the evidence.
Transfers become the bottleneck
When unsure, EDs make a best first guess and transfer the child. In a winter surge, children's hospitals fill up. Community EDs need to be able to handle these cases on their own.
Sources: CDC NCHS (2023); CMAJ Open (2023); Zhang et al. (2019); Brewster et al., JAMA Pediatrics (2024); FDA AI-enabled device list.
To reduce pediatric misdiagnoses through human–AI collaboration.
Pediatric-native
Built on children's imaging from day one, not adapted from adult models.
Explainable by design
Every finding comes with visual evidence a clinician can check.
Clinician in the loop
A second opinion that supports clinical judgment. It doesn't replace it.
Two tools. One pediatric-first platform.
PedXR plugs into the imaging systems hospitals already use and gives every pediatric chest X-ray an explainable second look.
Detects pediatric thoracic pathology, starting with pneumonia, and highlights the image regions behind every finding.
Explore PedXR Pathology
Finds and checks the placement of 11 types of pediatric support devices, from endotracheal tubes to umbilical lines, against anatomical landmarks.
Explore PedXR ToolBuilt for the front line, where most kids are imaged
General & community hospital EDs
Hospitals that see children every day but don't have a pediatric radiologist on hand around the clock.
ED physicians & general radiologists
The clinicians who read pediatric films alongside everything else and need a fast, trustworthy second opinion.
Fits your workflow
- Designed to plug into existing PACS
- Standard DICOM, HIPAA-compliant cloud
- No new hardware to buy
Ready to give every child a specialist-level read?
We're partnering with select hospitals and health systems for early clinical validation. If you're a clinician, hospital leader or researcher, we'd love to hear from you.