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"Centralized image access, review and analysis have the potential tosubstantially reduce the amount of resources and time required to performimage evaluation for a variety of clinical trials," said Eliot Siegel, M.D.,Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Maryland. In VivoImaging Workspace, part of NCI's cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)."This represents an exciting addition to the NCIA."
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Imaging service grid
Cedara's imaging service grid is a set of imaging functions, such ascomplex 2D rendering and 3D imaging running on server computers, that reducesthe need for expensive and complex hardware for workstations and networkscomprising an advanced imaging solution. The imaging service grid isconfigured as a scalable 64-bit back-end solution that is integrated directlywith the archive component from NCIA. The grid can be deployed as a standaloneserver that serves images to several clients -- or scaled to a "server-farm"deployment that can serve images to hundreds of clients, as well as supportload-balancing of these clients. It also can be connected and serve images toany viewer.
I-Response
The I-Response viewer establishes an HTTP request with the imaging servicegrid and allows users to employ measurement tools found in I-Response on theselected studies. This distributed processing viewer contains image analysistools that enable researchers to evaluate and quantify images obtained duringclinical trials. I-Response supports multiple modalities and operates withimaging equipment from different manufacturers.
"We are delighted that NCI has adopted our solutions for image viewing andmeasurement for its critical cancer imaging archive," said Cedara Softwarepresident, Loris Sartor. "Clinical research is a vital part of healthcare, sowe greatly value opportunities to play a role in trials that entail medicalimage viewing and analysis."
Cedara Software is a Merge Healthcare company focused on the developmentof customized software solutions and development tools for the medical imagingOEM market. Cedara's solutions enable OEM companies to accelerate their time-to-market, reduce development costs and access new streams of revenue.Cedara's software is deployed in hospitals and clinics worldwide and islicensed by many of the world's leading medical device and healthcareinformation technology companies. Cedara's technologies and engineeringservices span all the major digital imaging modalities and a wide variety ofclinical specialties including radiology, orthopaedics, women's health,oncology, cardiac imaging, clinical trials, imaging for the veterinarianmarket and more. For additional information, visit our website athttp://www.cedara.com.
Merge Healthcare is a leading medical imaging software and servicescompany. Our innovative software solutions use leading-edge imaging softwaretechnologies that accelerate market delivery for our OEM customers, while ourend-user solutions improve our customers' productivity and enhance the qualityof patient care they provide. For additional information, visit our website athttp://www.mergehealthcare.com.
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