iCAD Touts PMA-Approved Tool As Time-Saver For 3D Breast Assessment

iCAD won US FDA approval for its PowerLook Tomo Detection computer-aided detection tool for the growing field of digital breast 3D tomosynthesis product. It's intended to address a key complaint by radiologists with tomosynthesis: the long time it takes to read 3D, compared to 2D exams.

US FDA approved iCAD Inc.'s PMA for its PowerLook Tomo Detection solution for breast tumor detection March 24. The firm says the product is the first ever concurrent-read computer aided detection (CAD) solution for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT).

Current CAD systems are generally designed to analyze images from 2D mammography systems, which typically produce a total for four images per exam, after a scan. That approach has caused some frustration for radiologists who have adopted 3D tomosynthesis, which can product hundreds of images, because of the significantly longer read time

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