Image Comparison Acceleration Systems Work Within Existing Technology

Devised to be incorporated right into any image viewer, such as a picture archiving and communication system (PACS), advanced visualization viewer, or universal viewer, an image comparison system works to enable instant comparison of multiple image studies with a single click.

Blackford Analysis (Edinburgh, UK), a provider of software products that accelerate comparison of medical images, presented its products to the Middle Eastern market at the Arab Health Congress 2014 in Dubai (UAE), held January 27–30, 2014.

Blackford Analysis participated at Arab Health as the company is looking to bring its products into new markets, already having strong relationships in the US through key partnerships with imaging industry companies such as Intelerad, ClearCanvas, and Fovia,

“Our products help save clinician time, increase capacity and facilitate better communication, while helping to increase productivity and efficiency across the healthcare enterprise,” said Dr. Ben Panter, CEO, Blackford Analysis. “These attributes are applicable in every healthcare market in the world and we are looking forward to meeting the Arab Health delegates to show them the incredible difference that Blackford products can make to their imaging workflow.”

The company demonstrated the four major elements of its software: (1) Blackford MatchedCrosshairs optimizes any image viewer to allow users to simply click once on a location in any scan to instantly find the same location in multiple scans from different time points and/or different imaging technologies (computed tomography [CT], magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], or positron emission tomography [PET]). (2) Blackford MatchedView enables any image viewer to automatically compensate for changes in patient position and acquisition planes between scans, presenting views of compared exams automatically in the same position and plane, and enabling like-for-like comparison. (3) Blackford AutoSync provides image viewers with the ability to perform slice synchronization across exams automatically, irrespective of differences in patient positioning and acquisition protocol, so that the user can begin reading immediately when compared exams are displayed. (4) Lastly, Blackford Fusion enables image viewers to display precise anatomic location of functional imaging results by displaying fused views of exams from the same, hybrid, or complementary modalities.

Julia Brown, director of life and chemical sciences, Scottish Enterprise (Glasgow, UK), said, “Blackford Analysis is a great example of a company that is proactively targeting overseas markets in order to help realize its ambitious growth plans. Our field office in Dubai has worked with the company to research the Middle East market and we look forward to continuing to work with them to increase their international outreach.”

Related Links:
Blackford Analysis