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José María Melián, industrial engineer and founder of the project, tells us about this initiative that is dedicated to the development of software based on artificial intelligence for its medical application. The startup from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Artis Development, is among the hundred best in Spain, according to the ranking prepared by El Referente , a leading magazine specialized in information on Spanish startups, which, in turn , has the largest database of active startups in the country. Artificial intelligence applied to medicine It is directed by two industrial engineers graduated from the ULPGC, and is dedicated to the development of software based on artificial intelligence for its medical application. Artis Development is the only Canarian startup that is placed in this ranking that evaluates the most promising technology-based companies in Spain in 2023, and it does so by occupying position 85 in this classification that leads the Catalan community with the inclusion of 27 startups.
The ULPGC has managed the creation and recognition of its first startups, young companies with a marked innovative and technological component. The first of them has been Artis Development, dedicated to offering software tools based on artificial intelligence to transform clinical images into information of great value for the treatment of patients with different pathologies. Consolidation of Europe Mobile Number List technology-based companies in the Canary Islands Its founders, Raúl Guerra, doctor from the ULPGC, and José Melián, doctoral student in Telecommunications Technology and Computational Engineering at the ULPGC, have specialized in the treatment of medical images. Its main software, called FocusedON, is capable of providing accurate and fast information on the body composition of patients from computed axial tomography (CAT) images. This Canarian startup participated in the 'spinON by ULPGC' program, promoted by the Social Council of the ULPGC and the Department of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture, and whose objective has been to promote the creation and consolidation of technology-based companies in the Canary Islands. based on knowledge.

The jury that has established the ranking of the best startups in Spain, made up of experts and representatives of the main investors and consultancies on technology-based businesses, has assessed, among its main criteria, that the selected companies have been founded between the years 2021 and 2023, that have an innovative or disruptive nature, and that have less than 1 million euros of initial investment. Thus, the 2023 ranking includes 27 Catalan startups, 25 from the Community of Madrid, 14 from the Valencian community, 9 from Andalusia, 7 from the Basque Country, 3 from the Galician community, 2 from Murcia and one startup from the communities of Navarra , Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands.Jesús García, president of the Social Welfare and Development Project of Las Palmas, describes the situation of those who "don't expect to be called from anywhere or for someone to come and help them." The Social Welfare and Development Project (OSAD) of Las Palmas denounces the increase in the number of people outside the "visible radar" of poverty, according to its president Jesús García. "There are many abandoned people," says García, people who are not visible because "they are on the bottom rung of poverty and are not visible to public administrations and do not expect to be called from anywhere, not even from someone." comes to help them.
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