For vets
Built around the veterinarian, not around the software
EquiRay is a vet-only app. It is separate from the buyer app, and the two talk to each other, which is the whole point of it.
Today
A repository turns up as a folder
Before any of it can be worked with, somebody has to open every file and establish what is actually in there: which views are present, whether one is missing, and whether the images are good enough to be worth opening at all.
That work is unbilled, it is done at the end of a long day, and it is the same work every time. It is also the work that quietly decides how good the rest of the job is, because a set with a gap in it reads as a complete set right up until somebody notices.
What you get back
The folder, opened and sorted, before you sit down to it
Every image classified by anatomical view and scored for quality. The set audited against the standard, with anything absent named rather than left to be noticed. Personal information removed on the way in, so a film carrying a client’s name does not carry it any further.
Then a reading room, where you view, measure and record what you find. The finding is yours, it is recorded under your name, and it stays yours. The software will flag that something needs review; it will not go beyond that, and there is no setting that makes it.
EquiRay measures. It does not diagnose, and it will not tell you what a change means.
Today
Everything on this list runs, with tests behind it
Not a roadmap. This is the workbench as it stands, which is why there is nothing on it about an opinion on an image.
Study assembly
A folder of films becomes an organised study for one horse, with provenance recorded for every file.
View classification
Which anatomical view each image is, so the set can be checked against a standard rather than eyeballed.
Image quality scoring
Whether an image is good enough to work with at all, scored before anyone spends time on it.
Measurement
Angles, ratios and lengths, computed by code from landmarks you can drag. Angles and ratios are scale free, so the foot angles work on any film. A length is given in millimetres only where the film carries a calibration, and is marked uncalibrated where it does not, rather than printing a pixel count that looks like a measurement.
Two studies, side by side
A horse filmed at a repository and filmed again months later. The arithmetic between the two, in the unit both numbers were already in. A measurement taken on one study and not the other is reported as not measured, naming the study that has it, because not measured is not zero.
A series, in the order it was taken
Three sittings or ten, laid out in order with the interval between each, the difference between each, and every hole in the chain named. What it will not do is tell you where a run of numbers is heading. That sentence is a clinical judgement and it is yours.
Repository audit
Which views the standard expects and which the folder does not contain. A missing view is a risk flag in its own right.
Personal information stripped on ingest
A film carrying a client's name does not carry it into our system. Removed on the way in, and pinned byte for byte against a second implementation.
Viewing and measurement
A reading room built for the work, with the measurement tools in it. The veterinarian reads, measures, and records findings against the study. The finding is recorded as theirs.
Horse and client records
Structured findings against a horse, kept so that the same horse read twice a year apart is one record rather than two folders.
The write-up reader
It takes the veterinarian's own written report, in prose, and pulls out what was said so the buyer's risk read can use it. It works on the words, not on the pictures.
Two apps
What you wrote travels with the horse
A buyer is handed a repository and a written report, half understands both, and cannot tell which of eleven findings is the one that matters for the horse they want in work next winter. Meanwhile the careful paragraph you wrote sits in an inbox.
EquiRay takes your own written report, in prose, and pulls out what you said so the buyer’s risk read can use it. It works on your words. It does not work on the pictures, and it does not add anything you did not write.
Not on offer
Each of these is a decision, not an oversight
This is the part you can hold us to. If anything in the product ever contradicts a line here, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.
- No verdict on the horse
- The strongest thing the software reaches on its own is that something needs review. It does not go further, and there is no setting that makes it go further.
- No machine finding
- Every finding on this platform was made by a veterinarian and is recorded under their name. The software never originates one.
- No opinion about an image
- We have not built one, and that is on purpose rather than by accident. It stays unbuilt until it can be earned on work a veterinarian labelled, because a machine finding that nobody checked is worse than no finding at all.
- No clearance
- A complete set with nothing recorded against it is exactly that: a set with nothing recorded against it. It is not a statement about the horse, and EquiRay will never present it as one.
- No number for how often we are right
- You will not find a percentage anywhere on this site. A figure like that needs a study behind it, made at the time the claim is made, and we have not run one.
- Never a veterinary diagnosis
- EquiRay is decision support for a qualified veterinarian. The clinical judgement is the veterinarian's, the examination is the veterinarian's, and neither of them moves.
Early access
We would rather build this with a handful of vets who will tell us plainly what is wrong with it
EquiRay is in development. If that is of interest, tell us what you image most and how the repository reaches you today.