Integration of imaging and reporting will become the standard approach in reading screening mammography images, Heffernan predicted. WorkstationOne supports this capability now, and this enables the radiologist to be even more efficient.
"It's not a system built by engineers in isolation; we are clinically focused with a very strong medical advisory board that is led by world renowned radiologist, Dr. Tabar. It is easier for a small company like us to incorporate clinical feedback quickly, and bring new ideas to the market before the large players," he said.

Features of the New Release

The 1.4 release of WorkstationOne adds the following capabilities:
-Bi-directional reporting systems integration, with automatic population of the report (requires a companion system, such as that from MRS).
-Ability to display enhanced Mammography CAD reports, including dynamic operating points and detailed CAD processing information.
-Expanded suite of plug-in packages, including visualization for MR, CT and NM; breast ultrasound CAD (with Medipattern); breast MRI CAD (with iCAD); breast MRI analysis and interventional guidance (with Sentinelle); web-based document viewing; and dictation system integration.
-Integrated support for display of mammography tomosynthesis images, and associated mammography CAD reports.
-High-speed 10bit grey-scale image display with new graphics cards from NVIDIA and Matrox.
-Multi-reader/multi-machine peer-to-peer work-list synchronization.

The company is also showing a work in progress version of WorkstationOne in the "Reading Room of the Future" area, highlighting "Communicative CAD".

These new capabilities build on the existing WorkstationOne - which was already a full-featured breast imaging workstation, with an emphasis on efficient reviewing workflow and expert viewing methodologies such as Tabar's systematic viewing masks. WorkstationOne supports IHE mammography image profile and the display of CAD markers as well as GSPS graphic annotation. WorkstationOne is a software product that can be installed on an off-the-shelf general purpose computer with one or two gray-scale high resolution monitors and one color monitor.

About Three Palm Software
Three Palm Software was founded in 2007 to develop software applications for the breast imaging market. MammoOne™, a line of leading-edge software products for mammography, is designed to aid in the early and accurate diagnosis of disease impacting the health and well-being of women.


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