Capillary

Capillary, trading as Capillary.io, is a Spanish software platform for nailfold capillaroscopy, the study of tiny blood vessels at the base of the fingernail. Its AI spots and labels capillaries and haemorrhages in each image, and the results feed into organised cases and reports for clinicians, researchers and teachers.

What Capillary offers

• AI image analysis — automatic detection and labelling of capillaries and haemorrhages to cut variation between readers.
• CapillaryScope app — a desktop program for capture, calibration and upload that works with Dino-Lite, Inspectis, Smart G-Scope, Optilia and many USB microscopes, or with existing image files.
• Clinical reporting — case organisation, visit-by-visit comparison and reports for following patients with Raynaud's phenomenon or systemic sclerosis.
• Research tools — standardised findings, dataset export and coordination of studies run across several centres.
• Teaching cases — real examples and patterns for learning the technique.
• Team working — invitations for colleagues, shared protocols and joint image review.

Who it works with

The platform is aimed at rheumatology and other clinics, research groups running multi-centre projects, and educators teaching capillaroscopy.

Key facts

• Based in: Spain
• Hardware: no special equipment needed; works with common capillaroscopes and microscopes