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Article: Research Medical Center in Kansas City Deploys iCAD's New Prostate MRI Image Technology.
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- Health & Beauty Close-Up
- Article date:
- April 29, 2009
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iCAD, Inc., a provider of advanced image analysis and workflow solutions for the early identification of cancer, announced the installation of its VividLook Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) analysis solution for prostate MRI at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO.
According to the company, VividLook uses a complex algorithm to provide radiologists and radiation oncologists with precise information to assist in determining malignancies versus benign tumors and to pinpoint tumor location and size.
"Prostate cancer has traditionally been evaluated by digital rectal examination (DRE) in combination with other clinical data including prostate-specific ...