Liposuction is a cosmetic surgery that removes fat from the human body. And, it has long relied on a surgeon’s intuition and experience at moving the cannula wand. Nam-Chul Kim, CEO, 365mc, shares:

“You could say that our surgeons are like conductors – but not with an orchestra, with a human body, making the procedure as flowing, safe and precise as possible.”

So, what if technology could complement the expertise of a doctor by avoiding human error and improving success rates and customer satisfaction?

Starting on the operating table, 365mc’s Motion capture and Artificial Intelligence assisted Liposuction (M.A.I.L) system learns from billions of movements to identify the best ones for the most successful surgery, through AI. Conversely, when a risky movement is initiated, the M.A.I.L system sends visual and haptic (touch-based) alerts to the surgeon’s hand gripping the wand so micro adjustments can be made in real time.

Cannula movements on nine different axes are captured to further enrich the machine learning of movements for the next operation and so on. The more surgery movements captured, the more successful and intelligent the system’s algorithm becomes. Kim adds:

“Jointly developed with Microsoft, our M.A.I.L system has transformed safety rates and boosted customer confidence. In fact, we’ve collected 2 billion micro movements so far, and using insights from the data, we can carry out more than 100,000 successful surgeries in the next two years.”

But this is only the beginning of 365mc’s story. Kim has far-reaching ambitions to incorporate Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies;

“Once implementation of VR and AR is completed, surgeons can practice procedures without risk just like how airline pilots are trained.”

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