Siemens Healthineers and ScreenPoint Medical sign agreement to jointly develop AI-based applications in breast imaging

Siemens Healthineers enables healthcare providers worldwide to increase value by empowering them on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving patient experience and digitalizing healthcare. A leader in medical technology, Siemens Healthineers is constantly innovating its portfolio of products and services in its core areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging and in laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine. Siemens Healthineers is also actively developing its digital health services and enterprise services. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, Siemens Healthineers generated revenue of €13.8 billion and profit of €2.5 billion and has about 48,000 employees worldwide. ScreenPoint Medical was founded in 2014 as a spin-off from Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, to develop and bring to the market innovative machine learning solutions to improve breast cancer screening and diagnosis. With a strong and experienced team of scientists, ScreenPoint developed the AI system Transpara, which matches the performance of experienced radiologists in detecting breast cancer in screening mammograms. ScreenPoint now focuses on expanding its technology and creating integrated solutions to enable radiologists to achieve the highest quality in an environment that is increasingly demanding.