RSNA 2017 | Visage's Top Five

RSNA every year is the most important mkting and industry insight event for PME, and every year the RSNA top five insights have been a delight to read. This year it's more than a delight....

http://blog.visageimaging.com/blog/visage-rsna2017-top-five

What fueled the recent testing of $8. positive response from RSNA did IMHO.

Key quotes:

"most institutions are ill prepared to support the needs of AI. With legacy PACS aging an average of 10-20 years, those system were never designed with AI in mind. In stark contrast, Visage customers have an enterprise imaging platform built for AI, powered by GPUs. They're ready to go."

"At RSNA 2017, Visage underlined that by demonstrating as works-in-progress artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed by Visage, including algorithms developed by Visage working with the RSNA Bone Age Challenge data models for anatomy detection, as well as integration of third-party tools and platforms."

"At RSNA 2017, Visage used this classification algorithm to automatically link current and prior studies by anatomy... This speeds interpretation because the radiologist does not need to manually link the current and prior studies, align the image sets, etc."

"Second, Visage demonstrated AI algorithms for the segmentation of spinal vertebrae, and automated spine labeling of vertebrae even in multiple planes, as well as across current and priors. This capability was turning heads left and right in the Visage booth, as radiologists recognized how much of a time saver this could mean to their routine workflow."

"At RSNA 2017, it was a pleasure to interact with radiologists and imaging professionals who were previously unfamiliar with Visage. We continually were told:

• “We heard Visage signed [blank].”
• “Is it true Visage went live at [blank]?”
• “We were in a session earlier today and Visage was mentioned. We heard good things from [blank], and want to learn more.”
• “We were at the [Insert Barco, Nuance, Medicalis and/or Clario] booth, and saw Visage demonstrated. We were impressed and would like to get a demonstration.”"

"In fact, coming out of RSNA we have a large number of institutions currently moving through a POC, or actively planning to do so, with the intended goals of streamlining and shortening the length of time to conduct a thorough analysis."