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How Piramidal is using AI to decode the human brain
The company is building a first-of-its-kind foundation model that can detect and understand complex “brain language” or brainwaves.
Compounding this is the fact that there is an “extreme shortage” of neurologists — particularly those who can interpret EEGs — in the U.S. Pahuja pointed out that patients’ brain waves are recorded for several days or weeks when they are in the intensive care unit (ICU) — and no human could possibly go through all that. Advancements in time-series models trained on diverse, unlabeled data to evolve to a variety of tasks is allowing Piramidal — named for pyramidal neurons found in areas of the brain — to overcome these significant challenges, according to the startup. For instance, Pahuja noted, it could be implemented into general neurology, epilepsy units, longer-term monitoring situations and in neuropsychiatry (which uses EEGs to study mental health disorders and cognitive decline).
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