A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
深入探究 Midjourney 的医疗扫描仪：仍有许多未解之谜
A new video shows off Midjourney’s hardware, but offers little evidence to support the company’s ambition to transform medicine. 一段新视频展示了 Midjourney 的硬件设备，但对于该公司改变医疗行业的雄心，却几乎没有提供任何实质性证据。
Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn’t shown much proof it works. Midjourney 展示了更多关于其未来感医疗扫描仪的细节，但仍未提供足够的证据证明其有效性。
The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas and hopes will transform medicine with cheap, detailed, radiation-free imaging. The nearly 20-minute tour comes from tech YouTuber Marcin Plaza, who also happens to be an engineer at the company. 这家以图像生成闻名的 AI 初创公司发布了一段关于其“浸入式”超声扫描仪的幕后视频。该公司计划将这种设备部署在水疗中心，并希望通过廉价、详细且无辐射的成像技术来变革医疗行业。这段近 20 分钟的探访视频由科技博主 Marcin Plaza 制作，他同时也是该公司的一名工程师。
Plaza frankly describes the scanner as scores of ultrasound probes “hacked apart and slapped on a glorified hot tub with an elevator in it,” connected to off-the-shelf computers and Raspberry Pis. The video shows more of the hardware and the team building it, but largely glosses over the physics and imaging questions experts raised when Midjourney first announced the project. Plaza 直言不讳地将该扫描仪描述为“将几十个超声探头拆解后，拼凑在一个带有升降装置的豪华浴缸里”，并连接到现成的计算机和树莓派（Raspberry Pi）上。视频展示了更多硬件细节和研发团队，但对于 Midjourney 最初宣布该项目时专家们提出的物理学和成像技术方面的质疑，视频却大多避而不谈。
Those experts told The Verge that Midjourney had shown little evidence it could overcome the well-known limits of ultrasound, a technology that has been around for decades, or generate the kind of detailed images it has suggested at the scale and speed it is promising. The company has emphasized that the scanner will launch as a wellness product focused on body composition, rather than as a diagnostic medical device, which would require FDA clearance and clinical trials. 专家们告诉《The Verge》，Midjourney 几乎没有证据表明它能克服超声技术（一项已存在数十年的技术）众所周知的局限性，也无法证明其能以承诺的规模和速度生成所宣称的那种详细图像。该公司强调，该扫描仪将作为专注于身体成分分析的健康产品推出，而非需要 FDA 批准和临床试验的诊断医疗设备。
Midjourney doubled down on that approach in the video: head of medical Tom Calloway said the focus on body composition would let the company “speedrun” and open right away once testing is complete. But the video still leans heavily on medical language, asking what physicians could do with access to frequent scans taken over time. Midjourney 在视频中重申了这一策略：医疗负责人 Tom Calloway 表示，专注于身体成分分析将使公司能够“加速进程”，在测试完成后立即投入使用。然而，视频内容仍大量使用医学术语，并探讨了医生如果能获取长期频繁的扫描数据，将能实现哪些应用。
Calloway did not seem especially concerned about clearing up any confusion in the video. “I don’t think there’s anything to really clarify,” he said, promising frequent blogs with progress updates. CEO David Holz, meanwhile, said Midjourney’s lack of investors gives the company freedom to pursue the scanner. “No one can tell me not to do it,” he said. Calloway 似乎并不太在意消除视频中引发的困惑。他说：“我不认为有什么需要特别澄清的”，并承诺会通过博客定期发布进展更新。与此同时，首席执行官 David Holz 表示，Midjourney 没有外部投资者，这赋予了公司追求该扫描仪项目的自由。他说：“没有人能阻止我做这件事。”