At the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 104th
Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Nuance Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that, in less than one year since
its introduction, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Marketplace for
Diagnostic Imaging (“AI Marketplace”), the first
workflow-integrated marketplace, has mobilized a collaborative
community of developers, researchers and technology leaders to
build, test, validate and share algorithms for radiology. The AI
Marketplace now has more than 40 developers such as NVIDIA, Aidoc,
Zebra Med, Aidence, Densitas, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and their Center for Clinical
Data Science (CCDS). Nuance also is working with standards bodies,
such as the American College of Radiology (ACR), to establish and
apply application program interface (API) connectivity standards
for the consumption of AI within radiology workflow, as well as
electronic health records (EHRs), picture archiving and
communication systems (PACS) and registries.
The AI Marketplace functions as a diagnostic imaging app store,
giving developers immediate access to 70 percent of all
radiologists across 5,500 healthcare facilities via the existing
connected Nuance network. Unlike other imaging AI platforms,
marketplaces, and exchanges, Nuance’s comprehensive AI Marketplace
offers unmatched speed to market, unparalleled access to users at
scale, continuous algorithm training for developers across the
broadest set of distributed data sources, and automated access to
required registries. For subscribers, the AI Marketplace offers
one-stop-shopping in the largest storefront of AI imaging
algorithms integrated directly into the radiology reporting
workflow, with a collaborative feedback channel to ensure superior
results based on a wide array of real-world use.
“Augmenting radiologists’ expertise with AI is not futuristic,
foreboding, or frightening. It’s happening now and offers immediate
and ongoing benefits. Just as the Apple iOS App Store changed how
we used and viewed smartphones, the AI Marketplace can deliver a
similar transformation to the quality of care,” said Karen
Holzberger, vice president and general manager,
Healthcare Diagnostics, Nuance. “With our deep understanding of
radiologists’ needs and workflows and the scale of our existing
solutions, we are uniquely positioned to help them lead the
transformation of healthcare by leveraging the capabilities of AI.
Now, with the ability to easily purchase and utilize AI algorithms
directly within the solutions they use every day, radiologists can
work smarter and more efficiently, focusing their time and
expertise on more sophisticated activities and urgent cases,
ultimately improving patient care, and saving more lives.”
The AI Marketplace benefits developers and subscribers in
unparalleled ways:
Developer benefits:
- Speed to market: Significantly improve speed and reduce cost to
bring imaging AI applications to market by easily publishing to the
AI Marketplace and eliminating the sales, marketing, and legal
costs normally required to reach the radiology community, in one
easy step.
- Market at scale: Gain immediate visibility and access to an
audience of 70 percent of all radiologists across 5,500 healthcare
systems.
- Continuous learning: Constantly train and improve AI algorithms
at scale to the specificity and variation of a wide array of client
settings with automated access to real-world performance results
and data across the broadest user base.
- Automated connection to registries: Leverage existing
connectivity to the ACR to apply standards and help with automated
reporting and post-market surveillance requirements.
Subscriber benefits:
- One-stop shopping: Gain instant access to the largest
storefront of AI algorithms in medical imaging that allows
subscribers to search for algorithms by modality, body part, types
of disease, and more vs. having to track vendors on multiple
websites. Avoid the cost and complexity of installing multiple AI
developer environments, signing multiple BAAs, and other
time-consuming tasks.
- Efficient workflow integration: Automatically leverage the
outputs of Al algorithms to drive superior workflow routing and
efficiency, and seamlessly integrate AI generated findings into
existing PowerScribe reporting templates to further augment
radiologist productivity, quality, and decision support. No extra
steps, screens, or mouse clicks – and all within the same systems
relied on every day.
- Continuous feedback and training: Gain trust in the specificity
and sensitivity of algorithm results through broad-scale use and
automatic sharing of performance across health systems with
‘try-before-buy’ testing ability.
Examples
of the AI Marketplace in action include:
- Aidoc, Nuance, and the University of Rochester are
collaborating on a potentially life-saving worklist prioritization
application. The FDA-cleared application analyzes CT exams
indicating a suspected intracranial hemorrhage, then prioritizes
them on the PowerScribe Workflow Orchestration worklist for a
radiologist’s immediate attention in cases when time-to-treatment
is critical.
- Aidence, eUnity, Nuance, and the University of Pennsylvania are
collaborating on the development of an application to assist
radiologists in the time-consuming task of detecting and
characterizing pulmonary nodules for reporting and follow-up
comparisons. The Aidence Veye Chest algorithm can detect, measure,
and characterize lung nodules in CT exams. It also can compare
lung nodules in follow-up exams to assess changes. The accuracy of
Aidence’s automated nodule diameter and volume measurement, growth
rate, and composition have been validated in a clinical study at
NHS Lothian and the University of Edinburgh. Aidence’s Veye Chest
application has received a CE mark but is not yet cleared by the
FDA for clinical use.
- Zebra Med’s Coronary Calcium Scoring application checks for
calcium buildup in the coronary arteries. Calcium in these arteries
may be a sign of heart disease. Zebra has developed several
algorithms that are designed to help institutions uncover
incidental findings across a patient population that have meaning
and potential impact on risk stratification. The Coronary Calcium
Scoring application is intended for value-based institutions that
hold preventative methodologies as a priority.
- Densitas’ FDA-cleared densitasdensity™ application
automatically assesses breast density, an important predictor of
breast cancer risk, while radiologists focus their time and
attention on finding breast cancer. The densitasdensity algorithm
can analyze images to provide consistent and reproducible breast
density grades that align with the ACR’s 4th or 5th edition breast
density scales. The application is intended for use with compatible
full-field digital mammography systems.
AI Marketplace: A collaborative community, development
environment, and market
Nuance is working with the ACR to establish and apply API
connectivity standards for the consumption of AI within radiology
workflow, as well as EHRs, PACS, and registries.
The AI Marketplace also combines the power of NVIDIA’s deep
learning platform with Nuance’s PowerScribe radiology reporting and
PowerShare image exchange network. This combination creates a
unique end-to-end methodology that enables widespread development
and rapid deployment of imaging AI models into the AI Marketplace,
which is then integrated into thousands of radiologists’ downstream
workflow, helping them quickly detect key clinical findings and
improve patient care.
“The NVIDIA Clara computing platform powers scalable inferencing
of applications to the Nuance AI Marketplace. NVIDIA’s AI computing
platform is available everywhere, which gives the AI Marketplace
maximum flexibility, allowing health systems to keep their data
securely on premise, or to take advantage of AI computing in the
cloud,” added Holzberger.
“Medical imaging is essential for delivering the best
healthcare,” said Abdul Hamid Halabi, Healthcare Lead at NVIDIA.
“By working closely with Nuance, we are connecting the world’s AI
developers to scalable and seamless deployment of AI
applications for radiology and creating the industry-wide synergy
required to realize the potential for AI to transform the
diagnosis, detection, and treatment of disease.”
Interested developers, publishers, data scientists,
radiologists, and other members of the healthcare community can
click here to get started or learn more about the AI
Marketplace.
The Nuance AI Marketplace at RSNA18Nuance will
demonstrate the AI Marketplace at booth #2700 in South Hall A at
McCormick Place, November 25 – 30 in Chicago, IL. NVIDIA’s Clara
universal computing platform, integrated within the AI Marketplace,
also will be on display.
RSNA18 attendees can receive detailed information about the AI
Marketplace directly from the industry’s top AI radiology experts.
For example, Warren B. Gefter, MD, Professor of Radiology at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, will present the
session, “Using AI within existing radiology workflows”, in the
Machine Learning Showcase (ML16) in the North Hall, Monday,
November 26, at 2:00pm.
About Nuance Healthcare Nuance provides
intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful
approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend
more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture,
improve and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each
year, helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global
healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial
outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition,
medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality and medical imaging
solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient
care.
About Nuance Communications, Inc. Nuance
Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is the pioneer and leader in
conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday
work and life. The company delivers solutions that can understand,
analyze and respond to human language to increase productivity and
amplify human intelligence. With decades of domain and artificial
intelligence expertise, Nuance works with thousands of
organizations – in global industries that include healthcare,
telecommunications, automotive, financial services, and retail – to
create stronger relationships and better experiences for their
customers and workforce. For more information, please
visit www.nuance.com.
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Corporate Communications Nuance Healthcare M: 978-697-9227
palmer.reuther@nuance.com
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