b-box plus

b-rayZ
Stand-alone AI system for assessment of mammographic breast density, real-time evaluation of image quality, lesion detection and mechanism for personalized suggestion of supplemental diagnostics.
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Last updated: Jan. 23, 2024

General Information

General
Product name b-box plus
Company b-rayZ
Subspeciality Breast
Modality Mammography
Disease targeted Breast cancer
Key-features Breast density classification (ACR BI-RADS), real time image quality assessment, lesion and microcalcification detection, population summary dashboard
Suggested use During: perception aid (prompting all abnormalities/results/heatmaps), interactive decision support (shows abnormalities/results only on demand), report suggestion
After: diagnosis verification

Technical Specifications

Data characteristics
Population Asymptomatic women
Input 2D Full-Field Digital Mammography, 3D Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
Input format DICOM
Output ACR density class, diagnostic quality classification, BI-RADS compliant classification, region findings
Output format DICOM SC, DICOM SR
Technology
Integration Integration in standard reading environment (PACS), Stand-alone third party application
Deployment Locally virtualized (virtual machine, docker)
Trigger for analysis Automatically, right after the image acquisition, On demand, triggered by a user through e.g. a button click, image upload, etc.
Processing time 10 - 60 seconds

Regulatory

Certification
CE
Certified, Class IIa , MDR
FDA No or not yet
Intended Use Statements
Intended use (according to CE) The b-box plus is a stand-alone software intended to determine the breast density classification from mammography data and to classify mammography data with respect to their diagnostic quality and pathological abnormalities. The results are provided to the qualified medical user (the radiologist) who shall decide about further steps, such as the acquisition of new images or the supplementation with other imaging modalities (e.g. ultrasound). Qualified medical users shall review, and release the outcome of the software. If necessary, the qualified medical users shall edit the software outcome before release. After release, the findings can then be directly translated to a compatible history file for the Institutional Picture Archiving-System (PAC-System), and presented in a statistical overview (dashboard) accessible to the qualified medical users.

Market

Market presence
On market since 05-2020
Distribution channels RMS Medical Devices, Blackford
Countries present (clinical, non-research use) 7
Paying clinical customers (institutes)
Research/test users (institutes)
Pricing
Pricing model Subscription
Based on Number of analyses

Evidence

Evidence
Peer reviewed papers on performance

  • Automatic and standardized quality assurance of digital mammography and tomosynthesis with deep convolutional neural networks (read)

  • Detecting Abnormal Axillary Lymph Nodes on Mammograms Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (read)

  • BI-RADS-Based Classification of Mammographic Soft Tissue Opacities Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (read)

  • Classification of Mammographic Breast Microcalcifications Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (read)

  • Determination of mammographic breast density using a deep convolutional neural network (read)

Non-peer reviewed papers on performance
Other relevant papers