Artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Mindshare Medical has received Health Canada clearance for the use of its RevealAI-Lung computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) software in lung cancer screening.
Designed to reduce false positives and shorten the time to diagnosis, the deep learning-based software takes a radiomics approach to assessing lung nodules found on low-dose CT lung screening exams, according to the vendor. RevealAI-Lung generates what the company calls a malignancy similarity index, which is composed of hundreds of CT characteristics that are combined to create a morphological biomarker of malignancy.
The biomarker is then used to compare the nodule being diagnosed with nodules in a reference database that have known diagnostics and outcomes, Mindshare said.
RevealAI-Lung can integrate with a facility's PACS and vendor-neutral archive, the company said.
