Siemens AI-Rad Companion

2020: Announcement of Siemens AI-Rad Companion - AI systems for automation of routine tasks in MRT of a brain and prostate

At the end of August, 2020 Siemens Healthineers submitted two new applications for interpretation MPT- pictures on a basis artificial intelligence (AI). New software it is directed to exempting radiologists from routine tasks during MRT of a brain or a prostate gland.

AI-Rad Companion is family of cloud solutions based on artificial intelligence which helps to lower load of radiologists at accomplishment of the main repeating objectives. These solutions provide automatic post-data processing, allowing to simplify daily workflow. Thanks to the fact that AI undertakes accomplishment of routine calculations the radiologist can pay attention to more important tasks and increase diagnostics accuracy at interpretation of medical images.

Siemens provided AI systems for automation of routine tasks to MRT of a brain and prostate

The new AI-Rad Companion Brain MR application for the morphometric analysis is an algorithm which automatically measures volume changes in a brain. Volyumetriya of a brain includes measurement of volume of gray substance, white substance and cerebrospinal fluid in a brain, and earlier these calculations were executed manually or semi-automatic. Reduction of volume of a brain can indicate presence of Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer.

Meanwhile, the AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR application used in the help to a prostate gland biopsy segments a prostate on MRT-images and notes an external circuit of body. For accomplishment of this procedure read seconds are required for the application, and all transaction borrows much less time, than manual segmentation. As a result radiologists can without hurrying to note suspicious areas and to send the annotated MRT-images to urologists who combine these pictures with ultrasonographs during the procedure of a biopsy.^[1]

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