Daniel Crawford

Background

About Daniel Crawford

I have always believed that the best healthcare is personalised healthcare… Early in my career, I stumbled upon a way to innovate in the industry. At that stage, most surgeons were making life-changing decisions for their patients based on 2D medical scans that don’t always tell the full story. However, at medical school during a MSc in Medical Visualisation and Human Anatomy, I created a 3D-printed anatomical model of a patient’s fractured bones. When I presented it to the surgeon, he noticed a critical fracture that had been missed on the 2D scan, which would have changed the patient’s treatment plan. That moment shifted my perspective and set me on a path to solving a larger issue: how to make patient-specific surgical planning routine and scalable. In 2015, I founded Axial3D to bring this vision to life. Axial3D is an AI-powered medical segmentation company that helps hospitals and medical device manufacturers transform DICOM medical scans into precise, actionable 3D data. Our cloud-based platform automates the traditionally time-consuming process of medical segmentation, generating 3D anatomical models in hours rather than days. By eliminating these bottlenecks and reducing reliance on expensive hardware or additional staffing, we enable healthcare providers to integrate personalised solutions at scale. My mission in all of this is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI and real-world patient care. Too often, innovation in healthcare is slow and inaccessible, which is why my goal is to remove the barriers preventing medical device manufacturers and hospitals from adopting patient-specific solutions at scale. If you are in the medical device, surgical planning, or healthcare AI space, I would love to connect and explore how we can collaborate.