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Cedara Software to Showcase Next Generation Technology at RSNA 2005 |
Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company and a leading independent developer of medical software technologies for the global healthcare market, today announced its intention to expand the impact of medical imaging at the 2005 Radiological Society of North America Conference held November 27 - December 2, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois.
"Cedara brings a very unique value proposition to companies in the field of medical imaging," said Brian Pedlar, President of Cedara Software. "Today's competitive climate for healthcare technology has created burgeoning demands for product delivery and profitability. As an established software partner, Cedara enables medical imaging OEMs to substantially improve their time-to- market, reduce (or eliminate) cost of goods, broaden their product portfolios, and gain control of their customers' software environments. RSNA marks an excellent opportunity for us to meet with customers and discuss new business opportunities."
Beyond traditional PACS offerings, Cedara will showcase a variety of new clinical applications that bring functional medical imaging into new specialties' domains. Among the solutions demonstrated will be:
Cedara Open Eyes(TM) & Cedara BluePrint(TM)
An advanced software platform for the rapid development of medical imaging applications, Cedara Open Eyes provides a structured framework on which layered and protocol based applications can be quickly and efficiently created without reinventing base functionality. Packaged with sophisticated image viewing, DICOM, databasing and image manipulation capabilities, Cedara Open Eyes allows healthcare companies to focus on the development of workflow and specific clinical tools. Open Eyes provides an excellent framework for both plug-in integration and complete software development. For additional development capabilities, Cedara BluePrint provides extended structure and features for the Cedara Open Eyes development environment.
Cedara I-Conference(TM)
Cedara I-Conference is a tool that puts power into a physician's hands. Designed as a productivity tool, Cedara I-Conference can be used to create presentations or to act as a shared conferencing forum. Diverse file formats including DICOM images, Microsoft(R) PowerPoint(TM), PDFs, Quicktime, AVI, TIFF, MPEG, live web pages and more can all be consolidated and manipulated in this singular streamlined package.
Cedara I-ReadMammo(TM)
Cedara I-ReadMammo is a soft-copy reading workstation designed specifically for Breast Imaging. With its outstanding image quality, performance and tailored workflow design, Cedara I-ReadMammo enables radiologists to optimize their reading speed and improve patient care through multi-vendor, multi-modality and multi-CAD support.
Cedara B-CAD(TM)
Cedara B-CAD is the world's first CAD solution designed to assist radiologists in analyzing breast ultrasound. With integrated tools for ACR BI- RADS(R) characterization and automatic report generation, Cedara B-CAD is a perfect complement for diagnostic breast ultrasound. Integrated with Cedara I- ReadMammo, Cedara B-CAD demonstrates functional multi-modality breast imaging workflow.
Cedara OrthoWorks(TM)
Cedara OrthoWorks is a suite of diagnostic tools for orthopaedic specialists in digital environments. Its advanced digital imaging technology offers image acquisition, surgical planning, templating, archiving and web distribution. Using OrthoWorks, users can perform automated orthopaedic measurements designed to minimize calculations and human error while facilitating quick and accurate planning. Also within the OrthoWorks suite of applications is Cedara Care Manager(TM) and Cedara Spine Analyzer(TM), definitive tools for implant tracking and spinal analysis.
Cedara PET/CT Workstation(TM)
Cedara's PET/CT software solution provides a clear understanding of CT and PET reading workflow. Cedara PET/CT Workstation has been designed to easily accommodate the standard methods Radiologists use to read CT datasets and can be seamlessly integrated with PACS systems. Cedara PET/CT adapts a PACS paradigm of using multiple screens to give the user a great workspace for reading the torrent of data in a PET/CT study. Built with radiology workflow in mind, PET/CT Workstation has standard features for worklist management and optimizes productivity with configurable layouts.
Cedara CalScore Review(TM)
A powerful application for coronary screening, CalScore Review provides clinicians with the tools needed to quantify arterial calcium buildup through CT imaging. Easy to use, CalScore Review automatically publishes findings in a customizable report. Individual Score reports are based on the industry- standard Agatston as well as Volume or Mass score. Basic features include user-definable color scheme, report generation, and Hounsfield threshold. Additional gating and calibration capabilities can be added to this solution as needed based on the user's CT equipment specifications.
Cedara Colon Review(TM)
Colon Review is a complete virtual colonoscopy workflow solution that provides a powerful tool for reviewing colon or other luminal studies and reporting the findings. Colon Review enhances productivity by integrating software tools to visualize the lumen, record findings, and automatically generate a report. The study can be reviewed working primarily on the 2D images (using the 3D view for problem solving), or the study can be reviewed working primarily from the 3D view, according to the user's preference. Colon Review's sophisticated yet easy-to-use 3D visualization technology provides physicians the capability to make clinical assessments quickly and easily.
Cedara Lung Review(TM)
Our Lung Review software provides a solution for one of the most challenging tasks confronting today's radiologists: the analysis of lung nodules complicated by hundreds of slices and confused by normal anatomy. Productivity can be enhanced with judicious software tools that aid physicians while still providing complete authority over output. Lung Review is a comprehensive lung nodule visualization & analysis package that incorporates an innovative 4-pane viewing tool with real-time MPR and sliding slab MIP functionality to examine the lung and any candidate regions identified by the user. Automated nodule segmentation generates a 3D representation of the nodule, measures its signal and dimensional characteristics, and incorporates a customizable decision tree based on ELCAP recommendations.
Cedara DentalWorks(TM)
Cedara DentalWorks is an innovative dental implant planning system used by dentists and radiologists that makes the accurate planning and placement of dental implants easy. Using CT data and a smart, automated workflow, users can determine the optimal location of dental implants. Cedara DentalWorks produces a customized dental template that simplifies drilling and helps dentists place an implant with confidence and precision.
Cedara OncologyWorks(TM)
Cedara has recently focused on providing exciting new clinical software solutions for Oncology. Under the family name OncologyWorks, Cedara will be highlighting progress in bringing to market a suite of applications designed to address cancer screening, diagnosis and radiotherapy treatment and planning. This includes quantitative PET/CT fusion, ultrasound navigation positioning, tumour tracking, patient follow-up management and more.
Cedara I-Response(TM)
A unique application in the Cedara OncologyWorks suite, Cedara will be highlighting progress in the development of Cedara I-Response. Cedara I- Response is a works-in-progress software solution based on an exclusive novel imaging process known as functional diffusion mapping(TM) (fDM(TM)). Cedara I- Response provides technology for early detection of treatment response in brain cancer care, based on landmark work at the University of Michigan. Differing from standard techniques that use anatomical images to evaluate cancer treatment, Cedara I-Response is a molecular imaging technique that assesses tumour response from cellular mechanisms. It has the potential to evaluate the impact of anti-cancer drugs and radiation therapy on tumours at an unprecedented rate. By giving radiologists, oncologists, researchers and others a sophisticated tool to study tumour activity at both the cellular and anatomical level, it is hoped that this technology may provide the foundation on which fast, efficient and personalized cancer treatment planning can develop.
Cedara will also introduce a variety of developing technologies for areas such as chiropractic, pharmaceutical R&D, interventional radiology, pathology, microscopy and more. All of these technologies are available to Cedara's business partners.
"Everyone knows that software development takes twice as long and costs twice as much as budgeted," continued Pedlar, "but it doesn't have to. Over the course of 20 years and over 2,000 man-years of software development, Cedara has refined its software methodology through the use of hardened and sophisticated toolkits, platforms, leading architectures, plug-in frameworks and advanced development environments -- all of these capabilities are available to our business partners to help save time, money and reduce development risks. Any OEM or University Hospital interested in next generation imaging solutions should check out Cedara Software."
Cedara Software will be located at booth 1315 in the South Hall of McCormick Place during RSNA 2005.
Cedara Software is a Merge Healthcare company focused on the development of custom engineered software applications and development tools for the medical imaging OEM and International markets. Cedara software is deployed in hospitals and clinics worldwide and is licensed by many of the world's leading medical device and healthcare information technology companies. Cedara technologies and expertise span all the major digital imaging modalities including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), digital X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, echo-cardiology, angiography, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET) and fluoroscopy. Cedara medical imaging offerings are used in all aspects of clinical imaging workflow including the capture of a patient's digital image; the archiving, communication and manipulation of digital images; sophisticated clinical applications to analyze digital images; and the use of imaging in minimally- invasive surgery. For additional information, visit our website at http://www.cedara.com/.
Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of medical imaging and information management software and services. With over twenty years of leadership in the medical imaging and healthcare information technology markets, Merge Healthcare provides innovative solutions for both OEM and the end-user healthcare markets. We custom engineer clinical and imaging applications and development tools that are on the forefront of medicine and its use of medical imaging for OEM and international customers. We develop innovative medical imaging software solutions that support end-to- end business and clinical workflow for radiology department and specialty practices, imaging centers and hospitals. Our innovative software solutions use leading-edge imaging software technologies that accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers' productivity and enhance the quality of patient care they provide. For additional information, visit our website at http://www.merge.com/.
All trademarks appearing in this release are the property of Cedara Software Corp. |
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