aetherAI vs Ibex Medical Analytics (2026)
aetherAI sells a cleared viewing platform with AI approved in Taiwan and Europe; Ibex sells AI with a US clearance of its own. aetherSlide, aetherAI's image management and viewing system, is FDA cleared (K233126, 2024), approved in Taiwan and CE marked, and its bone marrow smear software, aetherAI Hema, is approved in Taiwan and CE marked. Ibex's Galen Second Read is 510(k) cleared (K241232) to flag prostate biopsies a pathologist has called benign, and its breast and gastric solutions are CE-IVD marked outside the United States and research use only inside it.
- Hematology is in scope: aetherAI Hema analyzes bone marrow smears.
- You want a viewing platform with an FDA clearance, Taiwan approval and a CE mark.
- Your sites are in Asia, where aetherAI names hospitals in Taiwan and Japan.
- You want an FDA clearance that covers the AI itself, on prostate biopsies.
- Results should return into systems you already run, through partners including Roche, Philips, Proscia and Sectra.
- Your security review wants the business associate addendum and subprocessor list published.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. aetherAI and Ibex Medical Analytics are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | aetherAI | Ibex Medical Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Digital Pathology AI | Digital Pathology AI |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Website | aetherai.com | ibex-ai.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Taipei based digital pathology and medical imaging AI company. Its aetherSlide image management and viewing system holds FDA clearance (K233126, 2024), Taiwan approval and CE marking, and is named at hospitals in Taiwan, Japan and Germany. It also sells aetherAI Hema, bone marrow smear analysis software approved in Taiwan and CE marked, and aetherAI Endo, computer aided polyp detection for colonoscopy approved in Taiwan, plus research applications for slide quality control, cell counting and IHC quantification.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Cancer diagnostics company selling Galen, AI applications that analyze H&E whole slide images for prostate, breast and gastric cancer and return results into laboratories' existing image management and laboratory systems through partners including Roche, Philips, Proscia and Sectra.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do aetherAI and Ibex Medical Analytics work with the EHR?
With Techman Robot and Hamamatsu Photonics it offers an automated arrangement in which a robot loads slides into a NanoZoomer scanner and images pass to aetherAI software.
With Ibex Medical Analytics, the 510(k) summary describes the cleared product ingesting slides automatically from the scanner and image management system, with the diagnosis documented in another system such as the LIS. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 28, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are aetherAI and Ibex Medical Analytics priced and sold?
In aetherAI's case, the platform, the algorithm products and biopharma services are all sold through a sales contact, and nothing published describes the unit of charge for any of them.
For Ibex Medical Analytics, the company's pages carry no list price, per case or per slide rate, tier structure or worked example for any Galen application, and commercial contact runs through a contact form. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 28, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do aetherAI and Ibex Medical Analytics handle patient data?
With aetherAI, the only privacy policy covers visitors to the company website, defining the service as the website, and does not address slides, smears or colonoscopy video processed by the products. Nothing states whether aetherAI receives customer images for support or model development, what it retains, who de-identifies images, or how customers are told about model updates.
The Data Protection Addendum (last updated February 2026), linked from the trust center, lets Ibex delete customer personal data 21 days after receipt unless a different period is agreed in the purchase confirmation, and requires deletion from Ibex's and its sub-processors' systems at termination or on written request. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 28, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What evidence is published for aetherAI and Ibex Medical Analytics?
The corresponding author is at National Taiwan University Hospital, aetherAI employees are coauthors, and the paper describes the product as derived from the study rather than naming a version.
With Ibex Medical Analytics, the Galen Second Read 510(k) summary (K241232) reports a standalone study on 347 benign-diagnosed cases at three sites and a reader study on 772 cases (396 with cancer, 376 benign) read by 12 pathologists at four sites, three in the United States, each case read with and without the device after a two week washout. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 28, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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aetherAI's FDA clearance covers the viewing system, not its algorithms; its AI approvals are in Taiwan and Europe. Neither publishes pricing. Rewritten 28 Sep 2026 after both records were reviewed.