Developers: | GE Healthcare |
Date of the premiere of the system: | September, 2020 |
Branches: | Pharmaceutics, medicine, health care |
2020: Announcement of Vivid Ultra Edition - Software for an echocardiography with AI
At the beginning of September, 2020 GE Healthcare provided a new packet SOFTWARE for ULTRASONOGRAPHY a cardiovascular system on a basis artificial intelligence (AI) at a meeting of the European society of cardiologists (ESC). The packet received the name Vivid Ultra Edition and provides integration of AI with echocardiography algorithms which are used in the equipment American by the producer. Software it can be used with any devices of a portfolio Vivid for ultrasonic examinations of a cardiovascular system.
First of all the new software package was developed to improve quality of an echocardiography and also to accelerate assessment of function of heart at ultrasonic inspection which usually takes a lot of time. Vivid Ultra Edition includes such tools as Spectrum Recognition which semi-automatic takes the corresponding measurements of spectral Doppler images, and AI Auto Measure 2D which finds on the image of a point, used for measurement of the left ventricle. Other tool, AI View Recognition, automatically determines the plane of scanning and saves this information in the image file.
GE also reported that Vivid Ultra Edition expands possibilities of visualization. The HD Color mode allows to estimate anatomic features and characteristics of a blood-groove using shadows and reflections in a 3D format that facilitates his perception. The FlexiLight tool provides photorealistic images which help the doctor to visualize and estimate moving structures better. 3D transthoracic probe 6VDc provides 2D and 4D of the image at inspection of children.
The Vivid iq and Vivid T8/T9 systems which use the Vivid Ultra Edition software package are under consideration by regulatory bodies and are not available to sale yet.[1]