Vital Images renews distribution agreement with Medicsight

Vital Images has renewed its marketing and distribution agreement with Medicsight, a London-based developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) technologies and image analysis software.

The renewed partnership gives Vital Images' customers access to tools with the integration of Medicsight's ColonCAD software into the Vitrea solution, for the detection of suspicious regions within colorectal scans.
   
The Medicsight's ColonCAD product, currently available in Europe, Canada and Australia, is awaiting FDA clearance for the U.S. market.

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