Bx Platform
The BrainScope Company, Inc.’s existing and pipeline products are based on a revolutionary technology platform – called Bx – that integrates the world’s largest database of brainwave recordings with cutting-edge developments in digital signal processing (DSP), advanced algorithms, miniaturized hardware and disposable headset sensors. The result is the creation of a unique set of hand-held, Bx-based devices that meet a long-standing need for safe, radiation-free, non-invasive frontline tools that can provide an accurate initial assessment of brain function. Slightly larger than an iPod®1, BrainScope’s devices can be used anywhere – in an ambulance or emergency department, on the sports field or the battlefield, in the hospital or the home. With BrainScope, medical professionals and other trained users now have, for the first time, objective tools that can help quickly and accurately assess brain function at the initial point of care – wherever that might be – to help guide patients suffering from concussions, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease and other brain dysfunctions to prompt and appropriate treatment. Technology – The Bx Platform Bx, the technology platform at the heart of BrainScope’s products, is based on patented algorithms developed using thousands of patient data records encompassing a wide range of confirmed brain dysfunction. These algorithms extract, sort and organize key signal features from noisy, complex brain electrical waves, and employ those features to help identify and classify brain dysfunction. The superiority of the Bx platform rests primarily on two points: the database of brainwave recordings – the world’s largest – which serves as the basis for developing profiles or patterns of deviation from normal values for various types of brain dysfunctions, against which a given patient’s electrical brain activity can be compared; and cutting edge mathematics, including advanced wavelet theory, which allow BrainScope to analyze a patient’s brain electrical activity. Some 60 scientists and engineers from BrainScope and its technology partners are currently working on the further development of BrainScope technologies and products through continuing exclusive partnership arrangements. To date, more than $40 million has been invested in developing the Bx platform and its first Bx-based devices. |
