-- Cedara B-CAD to be offered through a major distribution channel with
Kodak's CARESTREAM Mammography Workstation
-- Cedara B-CAD allows Kodak to distribute the latest tools for providing
maximum information in the analysis of breast images
-- Kodak to showcase Cedara B-CAD at RSNA Conference in Chicago
TORONTO, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cedara Software, a Merge
Healthcare company (Nasdaq: MRGE; TSX: MRG) and a leading independent
developer of medical software technologies for the global healthcare market,
today announced an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company to bring the world's
first Computer Aided Detection (CAD) system for breast ultrasound to
healthcare providers.
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Under the agreement, Kodak will distribute Cedara B-CAD to its customers
worldwide as part of an integrated solution with their KODAK CARESTREAM
Mammography Workstation.
"Ultrasound is an excellent vehicle for breast cancer diagnosis. At
Cedara, we believe that offering healthcare providers tools that present
additional information so they can make the best diagnosis is critical to
early detection of disease," said Sabrina Cannistraro, Product Manager for
Women's Health at Cedara.
Cedara B-CAD is the world's first commercially available CAD solution
designed to assist radiologists in the analysis of breast lesions using
ultrasound images. Uniquely positioned to reduce the quantity of time required
by a radiologist to analyze and report the findings of breast ultrasound
images, Cedara B-CAD provides tools for automatic image analysis,
segmentation, and classification. To address hospital wide needs for
consistent reporting practices, Cedara B-CAD provides a standardized reporting
structure defined by the ACR BI-RADS(R) Ultrasound Lexicon Classification
Form.
"In analyzing our offerings for breast imaging, the need and value of CAD
for breast ultrasound became immediately apparent," said Ron Muscosky, Product
Line Manager in Kodak's Health Group. "Ultrasound diagnosis can present a
number of challenges to any radiologist. Cedara B-CAD helps to extract
valuable information from a medical image and can be helpful to radiologists
in diagnosing disease."
CARESTREAM provides a powerful, solution for the breast imaging needs of
clinics, hospitals, imaging centers, and enterprises. It supports both
screening and diagnostic workflow, and is scalable from a standalone
workstation to a system serving a large mammography workgroup. The KODAK
CARESTREAM Mammography Workstation is specifically designed for viewing and
storing mammography images and data from full-field digital mammography (FFDM)
modalities from multiple vendors. This ergonomic workstation has FDA
clearance, and can also display images and data from a full range of
modalities including US, MR, CR, DR, NM, and PET, as well as digitized film
images. Cedara B-CAD will be offered as an additional option to this
comprehensive solution.
Cedara's suite of solutions for breast imaging, Cedara B-CAD and Cedara
I-ReadMammo(TM) are available to OEM organizations interested in expanding
their capabilities in breast imaging.
B-CAD was developed by Cedara Software and the Medipattern Corporation
through Cedara's Technology Partnership Program. B-CAD was US FDA 510(k)
cleared in May 2005.
Kodak's Health Group, with 2004 revenues of $2.68 billion, supplies the
medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and
information systems. Its portfolio includes picture archiving and
communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), IT
solutions, clinical information solutions, computed and digital radiography
systems, laser imagers, mammography systems, x-ray film systems, and dental
imaging products. Its services portfolio includes everything from repair and
maintenance, to professional services encompassing integration, storage and
archiving, secure e-mail services -- and much more. Kodak's other major
businesses include: Graphic Communications -- providing customers with a range
of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, and document
scanning and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems -
providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and
traditional products and services; and Display & Components - supplying
original equipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual
property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD
display industries. For more information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) contact your
Kodak representative or visit http://www.kodak.com .
Cedara Software is a Merge Healthcare company focused on the development
of custom engineered software applications and development tools for the
medical imaging OEM and International markets. Cedara's software is deployed
in hospitals and clinics worldwide and is licensed by many of the world's
leading medical device and healthcare information technology companies. Cedara
technologies and expertise span all the major digital imaging modalities
including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), digital
X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, echo-cardiology, angiography, nuclear
medicine, positron emission tomography (PET) and fluoroscopy. Cedara medical
imaging offerings are used in all aspects of clinical imaging workflow
including the capture of a patient's digital image; the archiving,
communication and manipulation of digital images; sophisticated clinical
applications to analyze digital images; and the use of imaging in minimally-
invasive surgery. For additional information, visit our website at
http://www.cedara.com .
Merge Healthcare is a market leader in the development and delivery of
medical imaging and information management software and services. With over
twenty years of leadership in the medical imaging and healthcare information
technology markets, Merge Healthcare provides innovative solutions for both
OEM and the end-user healthcare markets. We custom engineer clinical and
imaging applications and development tools that are on the forefront of
medicine and its use of medical imaging for OEM and international customers.
We develop innovative medical imaging software solutions that support end-to-
end business and clinical workflow for radiology department and specialty
practices, imaging centers and hospitals. Our innovative software solutions
use leading-edge imaging software technologies that accelerate market delivery
for our OEM customers, while our end-user solutions improve our customers'
productivity and enhance the quality of patient care they provide. For
additional information, visit our website at http://www.merge.com .
KODAK and CARESTREAM are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company 2005. All
other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of Cedara Software
Corp.
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http://www.merge.com http://www.kodak.com
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CONTACT:
Jacques Cornet, VP of Business Development &
Marketing of Cedara Software Corp., +1-905-672-2100 ext. 2564,
jacques.cornet@cedara.com , or Beth Frost-Johnson, Sr. VP of
Marketing of Merge Healthcare, +1-414-977-4254, bethfj@merge.com
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