First computer-aided detection on PACS demonstrated at meeting.

2004 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- R2 Technology, Inc., announced the industry's first computer-aided detection (CAD) on PACS (picture archiving and communications system) workstations, demonstrated at the 89th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Among the 10 PACS companies displaying R2's ImageChecker CAD system results at RSNA were Agfa, Philips Medical Systems, IBM, Stentor, Merge eFilm, Cedara, Rogan Delft, Cerner, PacsCube and Sectra Medical Systems.

With R2's OmniCAD platform, the ability to display and archive CAD marks on PACS for mammography, CT lung and CR/DR chest represents a major step in making CAD processing universally accessible using R2's new CAD display technology.

"As part of our OmniCAD platform, we believe it is essential for radiologists to display and archive CAD results on the workstation of their choice," said Michael Klein, president and chief executive officer of R2.

"By working with the leaders in PACS and utilizing the DICOM standard for CAD, it is our goal to offer a viable clinical solution for review of multi-modality CAD results integrated with other patient information at a centralized location, regardless of the originating modality."

The R2 ImageChecker CAD system is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in both film-based and digital mammography to assist in minimizing false negative readings.

CAD is used by increasing numbers of radiologists as "a second pair of eyes" when reading a woman's mammogram. Analogous to a spellchecker system on a personal computer, this technology uses computer algorithms to identify areas on the mammogram containing physical characteristics that may warrant a second review by the radiologist.