APEC

About

Closing the gap in cardiac technology.

APEC International is a UK engineering and innovation company. We build measurement tools for interventional cardiology, starting with quantitative coronary angiography — a measurement that is still, in most labs, estimated by eye.

Mission

Rigorous, reproducible coronary measurement.

The first tool is APEC Vox QCA: fast, transparent and reproducible AI-assisted coronary quantification that runs locally on standard hospital computers, with no cloud inference and no image leaving the network to be analysed. Today it is a research and validation platform.

It exists for one reason. Coronary angiography has been the reference view of the coronary arteries since 1958, and how narrow a vessel is remains one of the most important things read from it. In routine practice that figure is still an estimate, made by eye, in the lab, under time pressure. Nothing has yet made quantitative measurement fast and transparent enough to be routine. That is the gap APEC Vox QCA is being developed and validated to close.

Our clinical collaboration is with Barts Health NHS Trust, London.

Our story

From engineering to coronary measurement.

APEC International Ltd was founded in May 2022 as a general engineering company. In October 2024 it began deep-tech work in medical applications, with a proposal to Scottish Enterprise: “AI-Enhanced Non-Invasive Estimation of Coronary Artery Diameter in Severe Stenosis for Clinical Integration Across Diverse Populations”. In April 2025 that proposal was awarded a SMART: SCOTLAND grant for an 18-month feasibility study — the programme that became APEC Vox QCA.

  1. APEC International founded as an engineering company
  2. Deep-tech medical programme launched
  3. First UK IP filing
  4. SMART: SCOTLAND award from Scottish Enterprise
  5. Clinical and AI validation
  6. APEC Vox QCA development and pilot programme

Intellectual property

UK patent applications.

  • GB2416340.4

    “AI-Enhanced Coronary Artery Diameter Estimation”

    APEC's first UK patent application.

    Filed

  • GB2613265.4

    A further application, extending the UK IP portfolio.

    Filed

Team

The people behind it.

Who builds APEC Vox QCA, and what each person brings.

Meet the team

Company

Where to find us.

Legal name
APEC International Ltd
Registered
England and Wales
Company registration number
14087239
Registered office
84 Uxbridge Road, Suite 3, Second Floor, Ealing, London, England, W13 8RA
UK office
83 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2ER
Email
[email protected]
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