The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a proposed order to reclassify certain radiological medical image analyzers, or computer-aided detection (CAD) devices, from class III to class II devices. This includes CAD devices for mammography breast cancer, ultrasound breast lesions and radiograph lung nodules.

Members of Beaumont Health’s proton therapy team presented research on a new treatment for patients with lung cancer at the recent European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) 37 Congress, April 20-24 in Barcelona, Spain.

Intelerad Medical Systems announced the release of InteleOne Maestro, its new enterprise imaging workflow orchestration solution.

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will introduce a new worklist feature, Turn-Around-Time (TAT), for its Exa platform at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md. The new feature is designed to provide customers with flexibility and simplicity through a customizable workflow engine and an intelligent worklist.

An updated American Cancer Society guideline says colorectal cancer screening should begin at age 45 for people at average risk. The recommendation is based in part on data showing rates of colorectal cancer are increasing in young and middle-aged populations.

U.S.-based Softek Illuminate and the entrepreneurial French firm Medexprim will be combining, distributing and supporting each other’s product offerings as a unified solution for hospital researchers interested in exploiting previously unstructured clinical and image databases. The two companies will be featuring the other’s solutions at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting, May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md.

A team of researchers including investigators from Mayo Clinic has identified a technology to address the problem of false positives in computed tomography (CT)-based lung cancer screening. The team’s findings are published in the current issue of PLOS One.

A Loyola Medicine study has found that new ultrasound guidelines can reliably identify pediatric patients who should be biopsied for thyroid cancer.

Intelerad Medical Systems announced the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI) initiative along with the expansion of its partnership with Blackford to offer Blackford Platform, a single platform to access and manage multiple medical image analysis applications.

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