Medipattern nets Italian install

General Hospital in Gorizia, Italy, has installed Medipattern’s B-CAD 2.0.

The Toronto-based Medipattern said its B-CAD analyzes images created on the GE Healthcare Logiq 9 ultrasound system and sends them to the GE Logiqworks radiologist review station. B-CAD analyzes the specified regions of interest, finding the edge of the lesion and identifying characteristics which indicate that the lesion is probably benign or malignant. B-CAD then collects the information into a natural language report, which is communicated to Loqiqworks for inclusion with the images in the patient record, Medipattern said.

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