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AI-Rad Companion

AI-Rad Companion
Providing multi-modality imaging decision support

AI-Rad Companion supports the physicians reading workflow and may increase your diagnostic precision when interpreting medical images

The AI-Rad Companion, our family of AI-powered, cloud-based augmented workflow solutions, helps you to reduce the burden of basic repetitive tasks and may increase your diagnostic precision when interpreting medical images.

Its solutions provide automatic post-processing of imaging datasets through our AI-powered algorithms. The automation of routine workflows with repetitive tasks and high case volumes helps you to ease your daily workflow – so that you can focus on more critical issues.

Customer experiences with AI-Rad Companion Chest CT

Training of algorithms for AI-Rad Companion Chest CT

AI-Rad Companion Confirmation User Interface — This image shows the confirmation screen of the AI-Rad Companion Chest CT

Up-to-date algorithms and scalable offerings

Our state-of-the-art algorithms will be automatically distributed to you as a user as soon as they are officially released and made available. Once the images are post-processed by the AI-Rad Companion, it supports your interpretation of the data by automatically providing results of its analysis to you for review, confirmation and possible inclusion in the final report or care pathway – to raise your precision and ensure high quality outcome in diagnostic decision-making.

All our AI-Rad Companion extensions are deployed via one secure cloud – the teamplay digital health platform. This approach eases regular updates as well as upgrade processes and facilitates the integration of new offerings into the existing IT environment.

The AI-Rad Companion family is growing

Learn more about AI-Rad Companion offerings for various modalities and body regions.

Clinical Outcomes

AI-Rad Companion may help you to increase precision and speed up your workflow

We developed the AI-Rad Companion to help you cope with a growing workload. With its deep learning algorithms, AI-Rad Companion automatically highlights abnormalities, segments anatomies, and compares results to reference values.

Discover how AI-Rad Companion supports you as a full-time radiology expert

Chest CT

Brain MR

Prostate MR

Chest X-ray

Organs RT

The AI-Rad Companion Chest CT detects and highlights lung nodules. Automatically after segmentation of the lung lesions, the volume, maximum 2D diameter, maximum 3D diameter and tumor burden is calculated.

^{Courtesy of Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany}

Cinematic Rendering adds clarity to the location of a detected lung nodule. The visualization makes it easy for the referring physician to get a clear picture.
^{Courtesy of Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany}

The AI-Rad Companion Chest CT recognizes automatically coronary calcium, calculates its volume and creates an enhanced clinical image including a quantification of the heart volume. This information about the cardiac condition is a valuable add-on clinical knowledge to a routine Chest CT.

^{Courtesy of Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany}

This 3D overview of the thoracic aorta has been automatically created by the AI-Rad Companion Chest CT. It includes the measurement of relevant diameters, based on medical guidelines and detected anatomical landmarks. This illustrates how the AI-Rad Companion Chest CT can support you increase the accuracy of your reporting.

The AI-Rad Companion Chest CT has automatically created this measurement of the aorta based on a non-contrast enhanced CT image.
^{Courtesy of Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany}

On this image you can see how the height of the vertebrae bodies is measured and compared. The AI-Rad Companion Chest CT automatically processes these measures and marks abnormalities with an easy to understand color-coding. Deviation are highlighted and on top you can see that the bone density is defined in Hounsfield Units.

^{Courtesy of Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany}

AI-Rad Companion performs an automatic segmentation of the different brain areas, including an individual volumetric analysis.
^{Courtesy of CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland, Case 2aaaa1366}

AI-Rad Companion compares the different volumes to a normative database and automatically generates a highlighted deviation map.

^{Courtesy of CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland, Case 2aaaa1366}

AI-Rad Companion automatically generates a report with all volumetric analyses listed, deviations from the normative database are marked. All results can be transferred to PACS based on the configuration.

^{Courtesy of Centre d'imagerie diagnostique, Lausanne, Switzerland, Case 2aaaa1366}

AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR Vida Segmentation

AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR for biopsy support performs an automated segmentation as well as an automated volume estimation of the prostate. In case the PSA value is known, it calculates the PSA density.
^{Courtesy of Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain}

AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR Vida Segmentation Lesion

The radiologist can manually mark and characterize lesions and other targets and add comments within the AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR for biopsy support. The solution can export segmentations and targets in a RT structured format as well as burnt in contours. These images can be exported and used by the urologist to fuse with Ultrasound images as a biopsy guidance.

^{Courtesy of Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain}

PA chest X-ray of a patient showing an AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray finding of a lung lesion in the left lung and the pneumothorax in the right lung.

^{Courtesy of University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany}

PA chest X-ray of a patient showing an AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray lung lesion finding in the right lung.

^{Courtesy of MVZ Prof. Dr. Uhlenbrock & Partner GmbH, Dortmund, Germany}

CT scan of the pelvis with AI-Rad Companion Organs RT generated contouring of organs at risk.

^{Courtesy of Aarhus Universitetshospital, Denmark}

3D rendering of the CT image in the TPS showing AI-Rad Companion Organs RT generated contouring of organs at risk.

^{Courtesy of MVZ InnMed Oberaudorf, Germany
Rendering not generated in AI-Rad Companion Organs RT.}

The AI-Rad Companion Organs RT automatically contours the organs at risk with the support of deep learning algorithms. It may reduce unwarranted variations with high-quality contours that approach the level of consensus-based contours.

^{Courtesy of Aarhus Universitetshospital, Denmark}

Integration

Smooth integration of artificial intelligence into the radiology environment

AI-Rad Companion may be fully integrated into the image interpretation workflow and helps you to handle your daily workload with greater ease.

AI-Rad Companion Chest CT

AI-Rad Companion Brain MR

AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR

AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray

AI-Rad Companion Organs RT

COVID-19

The entire global population has been impacted, in one way or another, by the COVID-19 virus. The AI-Rad Companion, our Siemens Healthineers AI driven solution, offers our customers the opportunity to have access to different postprocessing software for the analysis of lung examinations.

AI-Rad Companion Research CT Pneumonia Analysis⁵

This prototype is designed to automatically identify and quantify hyperdense regions of the lung, enabling simple to use analysis of non-contrasted lung CT scans for research purposes. The prototype could be used to analyze ground-glass opacities and consolidations. High opacity abnormalities were shown to correlate with lungs of COVID-19 patients. Free of charge access to the prototype can be requested on the Digital Marketplace (Customer needs to agree to a simplified collaboration contract prior to use). The benefit of offering this prototype as part of the AI-Rad Companion family makes an integration and technical set-up rather easy for user of the AI-Rad Companion or customers with access to the teamplay digital health platform.

AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray²

Chest imaging, X-ray in particular, plays an important role in patient management during the COVID-19 pandemic⁶. Patient management and clinical decisions depend on clinical outcomes and imaging reports. The new member of the AI-Rad Companion family, the AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray automatically processes upright chest X-ray images (PA direction). Next to pneumothorax, pleural effusion and nodule detection, the AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray is able to indicate consolidations and atelectasis. The latter may be signs of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus.

A visualization of the infected areas created with the cinematic rendering functionality of syngo.via.

^{Courtesy of CHR East Belgium Verviers, Belgium}

For the same patient the AI-Rad Companion CT Pneumonia Analysis created an overlay of colored contours to indicate the affected lung tissue and the segmented lung lobes.

^{Courtesy of CHR East Belgium Verviers, Belgium}

The volume rendering visualizes a larger infected zone in the left lower lobe.
^{Courtesy of CHR East Belgium Verviers, Belgium}

All statistics are calculated for the both lungs, left lung, right lung and per lung lobe, respectively. The color-coded pictogram offers a quick overview of the opacity score for the different lung lobes. Here it indicates the affected left lower lobe.
^{Courtesy of CHR East Belgium Verviers, Belgium}

The AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray application recognized areas of atelectasis and consolidation. Both findings may be signs of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus.
^{Courtesy of MVZ Prof. Dr. Uhlenbrock & Partner GmbH, Dortmund, Germany}

The AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray application recognized atelectasis and that may be a sign of pneumonia caused by the COVID-19 virus.

^{Courtesy of MVZ Prof. Dr. Uhlenbrock & Partner GmbH, Dortmund, Germany}

Have you missed the online virtual meeting AIMed Radiology and our customer’s talk about AI-Rad Companion?

Several devices of AI-Rad Companion are planned and under development, not commercially available in all countries, and their future availability cannot be ensured. Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers organization for further details.

¹AI-Rad Companion Brain MR is not commercially available in all countries, and its future availability cannot be ensured.

²AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray is currently under development; it is not for sale in the United States and other countries.

³AI-Rad Companion Organs RT is 510(k) pending, and is not yet commercially available in the United States.

⁴AI-Rad Companion Prostate MR is not commercially available in all countries, and its future availability cannot be ensured.

⁵For research purpose only. Not for clinical use. Safety and effectiveness of the prototype have not been assessed and it is not yet commercially available. Its future availability cannot be ensured.

⁶https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201365

AI-Rad Companion Providing multi-modality imaging decision support