News
Milestones
November 2007 Penn Diagnostics rolls-out ONCAD™ V1.5,
which improves workflow via automatic pulling of breast MRI cases from PACS.
July 2007 Penn Diagnostics rolls-out ONCAD™ V1.4,
which increases sensitivity and reduces false-positives over prior versions through improvements to its morphology algorithms.
March 2007 Penn Diagnostics rolls-out ONCAD™ V1.3,
which exploits multicore technology to deliver dramatic reductions in case processing times.
November 2006 Penn Diagnostics introduces ONCAD™ V1.2,
a fully networked version that supports multiple, remote reading stations.
May 2006 Beta test system of ONCAD™ V1.0 installed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
April 2006 Beta test system of ONCAD™ V1.0 installed at Fairfax MRI Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Virginia.
February 2006 Penn Diagnostics (formerly Alan Penn & Associates,
Inc.) concludes research related to the Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
December 2005 Beta test system of ONCAD™ V1.0 installed
at the George Washington University Breast Imaging and Interventional
Center.
December 2005 ONCAD™ V1.0 cleared by the FDA for processing of dynamic contrast enhanced MR images. Enhanced visualization for image interpretation is possible through the use of both morphological and kinetic analysis.
May 2005 "Impact
of CAD on Radiologist's Discrimination of Benign from Malignant
Breast Lesions on MR" presented
by Alan Penn, PhD, at 13th Scientific Meeting of International Society
for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
September 2005 The National Institutes
of Health (NIH) selects Penn Diagnostics to participate in 2005 Commercialization
Assistance Program (CAP). CAP assists NIH SBIR Phase II awardees
in accelerating the development, demonstration, and commercialization
of their products and technologies.
March 2003 Under a $1.9 Million SBIR
Grant from the NCI, Penn Diagnostics begins research to develop a
CAD system specifically for breast MRI using both kinetic and morphological
analysis.
