Dutch health technology company Royal Philips has announced the commercial launch of its CT 5300 system in North America, with enhanced AI and automated workflow capabilities.
In February this year, Philips launched the CT 5300 system, featuring advanced AI capabilities for diagnosis, interventional procedures, and screening, at ECR2024.
The current upgrade builds on Philips’ CT Smart Workflow with a complete suite of AI-powered ‘Precise’ software solutions that support every step of the CT workflow.
It reduces the burden of routine, time-intensive tasks on technicians and radiologists, allowing them to spend more time on focus on their patients, said Philips.
According to the company its CT Smart Workflow solutions include Precise Position, Precise Cardiac and Precise Brain solutions, along with its Precise Image solution.
Precise Position improves the accuracy of vertical positioning relative to manual positioning, increases user-to-user consistency and reduces positioning time.
Precise Cardiac compensates for cardiac motion to enhance the visualisation of the coronary arteries during CT imaging, even in patients with a rapid heartbeat.
Precise Brain automatically reformats scans to deliver improved visualisation for rapid and confident diagnosis of the respective anatomies.
Precise Image delivers fast, high-quality image reconstruction with an 80% lower radiation dose, 85% lower noise, and 60% improved low-contrast detectability.
Philips said that its CT 5300 easily integrates with its scalable AI-enabled image post-processing platform, dubbed Advanced Visualisation Workspace.
The platform is designed to simplify radiology workflows to enable high-quality care, enhanced diagnostic confidence, and quick image reading and reporting.
Philips CT business leader Dan Xu said: “Together with our latest AI-driven CT Smart Workflow solutions, we are integrating hardware, software, and AI to make high-quality care more productive, cost-effective, and widely accessible.
“The productivity and diagnostic confidence enhancements that AI can deliver to CT imaging empower care teams and ease departmental workflow, helping to mitigate today’s chronic shortage of highly skilled radiologists and technicians.”
The medical technology company has partnered with medical imaging AI solutions company Annalise.ai to evaluate the feasibility of Annalise Critical Care AI in a pilot programme.
Annalise Critical Care AI is a critical case triage support solution designed to enhance triage support and optimise workflows for conditions like traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Critical Care AI has been shown to improve median report turnaround times by up to 39%.
Philips will evaluate the Annalise Enterprise CTB solution, a clinical decision-support solution that can detect up to 130 radiology findings, for sites outside of the US.
Annalise.ai co-founder and deputy CEO Dimitry Tran said: “Our solutions are designed to streamline workflows and boost productivity for radiology teams. Together with Philips, we look forward to making high-quality care truly accessible.”
