InferRead CT Pneumonia

Infervision

InferRead CT Pneumonia allows for screening of the COVID-19 detecting pneumonia in less than one minute. The main functionalities incorporate displaying the number of affected lung lobes, its degree of infection, the location and contouring of the lesion, assessment of the evolution of the infection and an alert system that warns if there is a suspected positive case of COVID-19. This solution is aimed to help patient triage and detect early COVID-19 positive cases.

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Last updated: November 6, 2024

General Information

General
Product name	InferRead CT Pneumonia
Company	Infervision
Subspeciality	Chest
Modality	CT
Disease targeted	Pneumonia, COVID-19 induced pneumonia
Key-features	Pneunomonia detection, report generation, COVID-19 alarm functionality
Suggested use	Before: flagging acute findings, During: interactive decision support (shows abnormalities/results only on demand), report suggestion, After: diagnosis verification

Technical Specifications

Data characteristics
Population	Patients with suspicion of being SARS-CoV-2 positive
Input	CT diagnostics, COVID diagnostics, Pneumonia detection
Input format	DICOM
Output	overlay with lesion contouring, histogram of density distribution, draft report
Output format	DICOM, webviewer (description of lesion features), web viewer alarm (visible and sound alarm), editable draft report
Technology
Integration	Integration in standard reading environment (PACS), Integration RIS (Radiological Information System), Integration CIS (Clinical Information System), Stand-alone third party application
Deployment	Locally on dedicated hardware, Locally virtualized (virtual machine, docker), Cloud-based
Trigger for analysis	Automatically, right after the image acquisition, On demand, triggered by a user through e.g. a button click, image upload, etc.
Processing time	3 - 10 seconds

Regulatory

Certification
CE	Certified, Class IIb , MDR
FDA	No or not yet
Intended Use Statements
Intended use (according to CE)	The design, Development and Manufacture of Computer aided diagnostic software for viewing and analyzing DICOM images to assist physicians with abnormality detection and diagnosis.

Market

Market presence
On market since	01-2020
Distribution channels
Countries present (clinical, non-research use)	2
Paying clinical customers (institutes)	50
Research/test users (institutes)
Pricing
Pricing model	Subscription
Based on	Number of installations

Evidence

Evidence
Peer reviewed papers on performance
Non-peer reviewed papers on performance
Other relevant papers