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iMaging ToolS By Beth Walsh enterprise Lung CAd eases workflow Whether in China, Europe or the United States, clinicians are feeling the pressure of lung cancer as a major public health concern. Newer, enterprise versions of lung CAD software are making it easier than ever to apply the technology to chest x-rays and improve early detection. [ The Riverain RapidScreen x-ray-based CAD system marks a region of interest with a circle. ] Daqing Ma, MD, professor, Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University and head of Chest Radiology for the Chinese Radiology Society, has been using IQQA-Chest V1.2 from EDDA Technologies since 2005. The software was a stand-alone workstation version with DICOM communication with both the facility’s digital and computed radiography systems. Early in 2007, IQQA-Chest V2.0, the enterprise version, was installed. Now, the x-ray lung CAD is available on any PACS workstation. Beijing Friendship was the first hospital to adopt this enterprise-wide x-ray lung CAD in China. The hospital has about 4,000 outpatient cases a day and about 8,000 screening cases a year, says Ma, resulting in a heavy workload for the radiologists. The IQQA-Chest system is used on screening and routine outpatient cases to help in the detection of small lung nodules less than 2 centimeters (cm). Significant progress “The progress of CAD going from standalone to enterprise is significant,” says Ma. With the enterprise version, his facility now has CAD fully incorporated into its reading workflow and into PACS softcopy reading. “This is important,” he says. “One may do clinical research with a standalone workstation, but to have CAD as part of the routine, enterprise availability is a must.” Marco Das, MD, of the Department of Radiology at University Hospital in Aachen, Germany, agrees. Before installing a lung CAD server last fall, chest CT examinations had to be specifically sent to the CAD workstation and the reading radiologist had to switch workstations as well. “That’s the reason we only [used CAD] on selected cases,” he says. “The workflow was not too convenient.” Das uses syngo Lung CAD from Siemens Medical Solutions and was one of the first sites to use the prototype of the software about six years ago. Now, his facility performs about 30 cases a day, primarily on lung cancer screening cases. Secondarily, he uses the software to look for metastases on oncology cases. With the ability to access CAD 44 Health Imaging & IT | January 2008 HealthImaging.com http://HealthImaging.com

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Health Imaging & IT Table of Contents On the Web The Enterprise: Is More Better? News Update A Look Inside Next-Generation Multidetector CT Convention Spotlight: RSNA in Review RIS/PACS in the Imaging Center Sweden: A Study in Mammography Excellence The Votes are in: Yea for Speech in U.S. Capital & Beyond Subspecialty Reading Services: Quality Reads, Peace of Mind, 24/7 Enterprise Lung CAD Eases Workflow Advertisers Index Company Index Coming Soon Stat Sheet

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