Eric Topol highlights how a Midjourney-generated full-body ultrasound scanner concept runs into hard physical barriers, since ultrasound waves cannot cross the adult skull to produce usable brain images, leaving any claim of complete coverage unrealistic even if the device could handle other body sites effectively.
On the @midjourney "Full Body Scanner" A nice idea that could add to our imaging capabilities, especially building on the power of ultrasound. But it's not full body. You can't use ultrasound to image the brain. My published smartphone ultrasound medical selfie in 2018 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaw7610 Moreover, there are the same concerns about incidentalomas as with full body MRI. And we've yet to see a publication.
This longstanding acoustic mismatch between bone and soft tissue means standard ultrasound has never delivered detailed adult brain scans, a constraint Topol underscores by referencing his own earlier handheld imaging work that deliberately skipped the head.
The concept carries no peer-reviewed performance results or clinical trials, so its practicality stays untested and the incidentaloma risks of any full-body approach remain unaddressed beyond the core imaging flaw.
Positive users praise Midjourney's full body scanner concept as an optimistic and useful early tool for informing care decisions, while negative users dismiss it as a grift or unimpressive.
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@EricTopol @midjourney But it is full body?
On the @midjourney "Full Body Scanner" A nice idea that could add to our imaging capabilities, especially building on the power of ultrasound. But it's not full body. You can't use ultrasound to image the brain. My published smartphone ultrasound medical selfie in 2018 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaw7610 Moreover, there are the same concerns about incidentalomas as with full body MRI. And we've yet to see a publication.
@EricTopol @midjourney This is published already in Nature Biomedical engineering: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4
@EricTopol @midjourney Same gut feeling this morning. First post I saw and said great. Then saw dozens of hype posts without any understanding of physics and clinic which irritated me.
@EricTopol @midjourney Is it using this tech?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4
@EricTopol @midjourney - @midjourney a Powered-By-Butterfly Partner -
Midjourney built the machine.
NVIDIA provides the compute.
@Butterfly provides the eyes.
40 $BFLY ultrasound-on-chip sensors in every scanner.
@EricTopol @midjourney Preprint (possibly related) from 2024 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11275691/ (Preprint does not require a journal sub)
Final https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42032040/
@JusDayDa @EricTopol @midjourney Thx for sharing. Cool tech, but less impressive image quality wise that the axial section of the femur they showed..
@EricTopol @midjourney It’s destined for the griftosphere
@EricTopol @midjourney They’ve made a lot of progress it’s been 8 years and the talent and funding at midjourney is elite. I think we might all be pleasantly surprised
@EricTopol @midjourney I don't get why people care are so much about incidental findings causing theoretical problems. We can get better at deciding what to treat with more data (and more frequent data for that matter..). it's a stupid panic
@EricTopol @midjourney Yet *
@EricTopol @midjourney Optimistic and balanced. Nice
@DeryaTR_ @EricTopol @midjourney oki so his ultrasound selfie is outdated now ?
@EricTopol @midjourney 💯
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@EricTopol @midjourney Not an engineer but you might like this
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@BlackHC @EricTopol @midjourney I don't know what he was expecting, drowning a person in a spa bc we want to have an image of his-suffocated-brain? Body means in this context below chin.
@JMRothberg @midjourney @butterfly That’s great, Jonathan I’m not impressed with the images that are being shown Or the idea being planted that you could do this imaging on yourself on a daily basis And it is not full body, as you well know
His reasoning , regardless of its outcome,is invalid.
Standard US he mentions only processes reflection, this is procesing both reflection and penetration; so one cannot reason by the standard US performance that MJ US couldnt image inside bones( as a matter of fact it cant but his reasoning is invalid).
