Visage Introduces Semantic Annotations for Visage 7

Visage 7 is prominently positioned on the AI pipeline, key to driving the Visage AI Accelerator solution

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Dec 01, 2019, 09:00 ET

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Visage Imaging, Inc. ("Visage"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX: PME), has announced Visage will demonstrate semantic annotations for the Visage^® 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform as a works-in-progress, at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2019 annual meeting (Visage Booth 7524, McCormick Place-North Hall), December 1-5, in Chicago, Illinois.

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), there is tremendous and increasing value in the data that radiologists produce as part of their reading workflow where they interpret and annotate imaging studies. This value can only be fully realized if the resulting data is mineable and its semantic meaning is computer accessible.

"That is why Visage is developing a framework to make annotations semantically meaningful," explained Malte Westerhoff, PhD, Visage Imaging Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. "Then these annotations, generated during routine diagnostic interpretation, can flow into a model training infrastructure to build new AI models. The algorithms output from those models can then be integrated into the radiologist's diagnostic viewer."

Visage is working with the American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute^TM to integrate Visage 7 semantic annotations with the ACR AI-LAB^TM, which offers radiologists tools designed to help them learn the basics of AI and participate directly in the creation, validation and use of health care AI.

Dr. Westerhoff continued, "Visage 7 is prominently positioned on both sides of the AI pipeline. Visage is developing, together with our partners, the framework and user interface to seamlessly create semantic annotations directly in Visage 7, to exchange those annotations with other third-party applications, including the ACR AI-LAB, and finally, to consume the output of AI models and integrate them directly into Visage 7."

A pilot implementation of Visage 7 semantic annotations is ongoing at Partners HealthCare Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Center for Clinical Data Science, where the framework is being defined and tested in the radiology workflow. "This is an exciting effort that allows radiologists to provide highly meaningful contributions for model development without interrupting their workflow," said Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, Chief Data Science Officer, Partners HealthCare.

Visage 7 semantic annotations is the newest component of the Visage AI Accelerator, a new end-to-end solution from Visage that dramatically reduces the time from research to bedside. Visage AI Accelerator includes joint development and commercialization opportunities with academic customers and third-parties; the Visage 7 AI research server that streamlines AI algorithm development with an open API and unifies research and diagnostic imaging in a singular platform (works-in-progress); and an AI ecosystem of third-party and Visage-developed algorithms.

To schedule a priority demonstration of Visage 7 semantic annotations and learn more about the Visage AI Accelerator solution, please visit this link for additional details.

About Visage Imaging, Inc.

Visage Imaging is a global provider of enterprise imaging and advanced visualization solutions for diagnostic imaging. The Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform delivers amazingly fast server-side rendered images streamed via an intelligent thin-client viewer with unmatched interoperability. Radiologists and referring physicians have a customized, protocol-driven workflow to natively view multi-dimensional imagery and multimedia using a One Viewer^® philosophy, scaled to support the world's most sophisticated healthcare organizations. Powerful solutions include enterprise interpretation and viewing; archiving, artificial intelligence, image enablement of EHRs; RIS/PACS, as well as anywhere mobile diagnostic access. www.visageimaging.com

About Pro Medicus Limited

Pro Medicus Limited [ASX: PME] is Australia's leading imaging IT provider. Founded in 1983, the company provides a full range of integrated software products and services to hospital, imaging centers and health care groups worldwide. www.promed.com.au

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