Recipient of Frost & Sullivan's Growth Strategy Leadership award and repeatedly recognized as offering "The Winning Combination" of Price and Performance by MD Buyline, iCAD is leading the way in Computer-Aided Detection (CAD).
With 17 patents covering CAD and scanner technologies in the United States, our patents include a broad set of claims that encompass the combination of a computer analysis of mammography data with a human analysis of that same data for breast cancer detection. Additional claims have been granted for extensions of the same concept from mammography to other medical imaging applications.
We have also been responsible for a range of mammography CAD innovations, including:
- the first system to offer a clear film-to-digital upgrade path
- the first system to support up to twelve films in a patient study
- the first and only CAD system to search for and mark clinical asymmetries
- the first system to report above each image the number of marks made by the CAD system
- the first system to provide multiple radiologist viewing stations - including a free-standing, eye-level viewer
- the first system to generate printed CAD results and offer the ability to choose between hard and soft copy results
- the first fully-featured CAD system available at a price under $70,000
Other innovations include the first use of bar code labels to improve workflow and reduce errors in case tracking; the first system to use the facility's own barcodes to identify and link to CAD results; the first system to integrate with Mammography Information Systems, the first system to offer an HL-7 data format interface to the medical facility's information system; the first system supporting open architecture, standardized protocols and accessible data interfaces; the ability to share digitizers between CAD and medical PACS systems; and the first and only dual digitizer CAD system. We also delivered the first digitizer designed for mammography and women's health applications; the first and only support for distributed patient databases, allowing remote scanning and remote access to patient information and test results; the first and only support for remote patient entry; and the first bi-directional support for hospital and mammography information systems.
In addition, iCAD has also done extensive research for the detection colon polyps to assist physicians reading for colon cancers. Computed Tomography (CT) products based upon these technologies are currently being developed by our team.
