contextflow ADVANCE Chest CT

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contextflow ADVANCE Chest CT offers comprehensive computer-aided detection support for ILD, COPD and lung cancer. It offers lung nodule detection and tracking of changes over time, quantitative and qualitative analysis of 8 image patterns, and 3D image search for 19 image patterns. contextflow ADVANCE Chest CT includes a timeline feature that quantifies and visualizes nodules over time, allowing physicians to follow treatment progress. A nodule malignancy similarity score can be provided through partner company RevealDx.

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Last updated: May 2, 2024

General Information

General
Product name	contextflow ADVANCE Chest CT
Company	contextflow
Subspeciality	Chest
Modality	CT
Disease targeted	Airway wall thickening, atelectasis, bronchiectasis, bulla, consolidation, cyst, effusion, emphysema, ground-glass opacity, honeycoming, incidental pulmonary embolism (iPE), mass, mosaic attenuation pattern, nodular pattern, lung nodule, lung cancer, pneumothorax, pulmonary cavity, reticular pattern, tree-in-bud
Key-features	Lung anomaly detection, visualization and quantification; lung nodule detection, visualization, quantification & characterization; longitudinal nodule tracking, content-based image retrieval, malignancy scoring
Suggested use	During: perception aid (prompting all abnormalities/results/heatmaps), interactive decision support (shows abnormalities/results only on demand)

Technical Specifications

Data characteristics
Population	CT scans in which lung-specific image patterns should be identified and interpreted
Input	3D chest CT scans of the lungs
Input format	DICOM
Output	Visually-similar and expert-labeled images, lung anomaly overlays, classification of selected image regions
Output format	Interactive user-interface, web-application
Technology
Integration	Integration in standard reading environment (PACS)
Deployment	Locally virtualized (virtual machine, docker), Hybrid solution
Trigger for analysis	Automatically, right after the image acquisition
Processing time	> 10 minutes

Regulatory

Certification
CE	Certified, Class IIa , MDR
FDA	No or not yet
Intended Use Statements
Intended use (according to CE)	contextflow ADVANCE Chest CT provides radiologists with complementary information for the identification and interpretation of lung-specific image patterns in Computed Tomography (CT) scans.

Market

Market presence
On market since	10-2019
Distribution channels	Sectra Amplifier Store, Alma AI MARKETPLACE, Alphatron, Osimis, OpenRad, deepcOS, Blackford, Visus, MedEcon, medigration, Dedalus
Countries present (clinical, non-research use)	10
Paying clinical customers (institutes)	20+
Research/test users (institutes)	10+
Pricing
Pricing model	Pay-per-use, Subscription
Based on	Number of analyses

Evidence

Evidence
Peer reviewed papers on performance	Impact of a content-based image retrieval system on the interpretation of chest CTs of patients with diffuse parenchymal lung disease (read)
Non-peer reviewed papers on performance	N/A
Other relevant papers	Whitepaper: Why HU may not be the best approach to emphysema quantification (read) Whitepaper: Improving lung segmentation for higher coverage of clinically-relevant findings (read)