ProFound Institute
Welcome to the ProFound Institute
The ProFound Institute is a premiere digital education platform providing on-demand access to AI-centric content, tools and training. Through a diverse range of curated content, the institute provides insights on our cutting-edge, deep-learning solutions for artificial intelligence. Our ProFound Pioneers are comprised of world–renowned experts in clinical AI and radiology, delivering a portfolio of resources designed to assist in earlier detection of cancer. Join us as we empower physicians to deliver quality patient care through informative resources and knowledge based learning.
Podcast: The AI Solution That Saves Lives
When AI Saves Lives: iCAD’s FDA-Cleared Imaging Solution & the Future of Healthcare
Listen to the Healthcare Weekly podcast interview with iCAD Chairman & CEO, Mike Klein, to learn about the history of iCAD, ProFound AI, new features and functionalities iCAD plans to release later this year and the future of AI in healthcare.
Healthcare Weekly:
At the Forefront of Healthcare Innovation in Podcasts.
Podcast: The Role of 3D Mammography on Radiologist Burnout
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffmeister, MD, VP, Medical Director at iCAD, a global leader in medical technology providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions, discusses the role of 3D mammography on radiologist burnout and what steps practices can take to address it.
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffmeister is a family medicine doctor in Manhattan Beach, California. He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Health Professional Radio
Video Spotlights
Discover the Power of ProFound AI™ for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is rapidly replacing 2D mammography in breast cancer screening because of the clinical value it offers in cancer detection. However, it presents significant workload challenges for radiologists, which can affect patient care. ProFound AI™ is clinically proven to assist radiologists by improving cancer detection, decreasing reading times and reducing false positives and costly patient recalls.
Hear About the Power of ProFound AI from Leading Clinical Experts
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AI for Mammography: Dr. Mark Traill
Courtesy of Fox 17 News at 10:00pm from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Mark Traill, radiologist at Metro Health, describes how ProFound AI can help detect breast cancer earlier.
How is ProFound AI changing digital breast tomosynthesis?
In this video from RSNA 2019, Rodney Hawkins, vice president of product management for iCAD, discusses the advantages of using ProFound AI for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, the first and only FDA-cleared software for DBT with AI.
ABC (Flint, MI): ProFound AI at McKenzie Health System
ABC in Flint, MI featured ProFound AI in a segment with Jay Smith, Director of Imaging at McKenzie Health System, breast cancer survivor Margaret Rhead, and her husband, Kim.
NBC/FOX (Flint, MI): ProFound AI is Changing the Game in the Fight against Breast Cancer
NBC/FOX in Flint, Michigan aired a segment on ProFound AI, featuring Jay Smith, Director of Imaging at McKenzie Health System, and breast cancer survivor Margaret Rhead.
WNEM 5: Dr. Hicks of RMI introducing ProFound AI
Randy Hicks, M.D., MBA, radiologist, co-owner and CEO at Regional Medical Imaging shares his excitement and discusses the value ProFound AI provides to his facility and patients.
ProFound AI™ for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Technology
Rodney Hawkins, vice president of marketing, iCAD Inc. discusses how ProFound AI assists in the interpretation of breast tomosynthesis exams with exceptional reader study results.
ProFound Pioneers: Case Studies
PINK Breast Center Improves Accuracy and Enhances Patient Care with iCAD’s ProFound AI™ for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
PINK Breast Center is a privately-owned imaging center specializing in breast care and ultrasound studies. Led by Lisa Sheppard, MD, PINK Breast Center has two locations in Flemington, NJ and Paterson, NJ; both locations are certified Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence. The practice can see up to 70 patients per day across both locations. For routine breast cancer screening, PINK Breast Center strives to offer rapid reads for patients, meaning results may be provided that same day, while the patient is still in the imaging center.
From Surviving to Thriving: How Regional Medical Imaging Enhanced Productivity and Profitability with ProFound AI™ for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
As the largest independent imaging group in Michigan with 10 locations across the state, Regional Medical Imaging (RMI) has been providing superior imaging services for 35 years. Coowner and CEO, Randy Hicks, MD, MBA, provides both a clinical and pragmatic approach to running the business, which has led RMI to become one of the leading radiology facilities in the state, with a team of experts in women’s imaging and other subspecialties.
Wooster Community Hospital is a 175-bed, full service and acute-care facility serving residents of Wayne County, Ohio. The hospital offers a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services, including radiology examinations. Of the 85,000 radiology exams performed each year, about 4,900 are mammography related. Gabriele Pedicelli, MD, a radiologist at Wooster Community Hospital, reviews the majority of breast screening cases at the facility, an average of 75-90 relative value units (RVUs) per day.
Located in Brooklyn, NY, Marine Park Radiology, P.C. is a stand-alone radiology practice offering several modalities of imaging solutions, including mammography, CT, MRI, x-ray, DEXA and ultrasound. Led by Dr. Harold Tanenbaum and Dr. Richard Steinberg, Marine Park Radiology has been a fixture in the community for more than 30 years and is one of the few remaining privately held facilities in the New York City metropolitan area.
Radiologie am Theater is a private radiology practice that operates three offices in and around Paderborn, Germany. Since the 2006 debut of the German National Breast Screening Program, the center has offered screening services led by Dr. Axel Gräwingholt, head of the Department of Mammography Screening and clinical co-chair on the guideline group of the European Commission Initiative, on Breast Cancer (ECIBC), an initiative developing new evidence-based recommendations of guidelines for the whole breast cancer care pathway.
Imaging for Women Offers Artificial Intelligence Solution for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
Imaging for Women opened its doors in 1997 as Kansas City’s first stand-alone women’s imaging center because Dr. Mark Malley envisioned a better way for women to experience healthcare.
Its philosophy has always been to offer patients the best possible experience when visiting the facility. To accomplish this, Imaging for Women utilizes the most innovative technology on the market today including digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) or 3D mammography and whole breast ultrasound that is performed by highly-skilled, certified technologists that make patient comfort and compassion a top priority.
Clinical Case Studies & White Papers
The addition of DBT to full-field digital mammography (FFDM) improves radiologist performance by increasing cancer detection rates [1-4] and lowering recall rates [2-7], but also increases reading time almost two-fold [1, 8, 9], compared to 2D alone. Thus, ProFound AI was designed to maintain or improve radiologist clinical performance, while significantly reducing reading time.
Improving Reading Time of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis with Concurrent Computer Aided Detection
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Detection of soft tissue densities from digital breast tomosynthesis: comparison of conventional and deep learning approaches
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Workfow improvements for digital breast tomosynthesis: computerized generation of enhanced |synthetic images
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What Our Customers are Saying...
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“Our reader study demonstrated that the concurrent use of AI improved sensitivity, specificity and reading time when reading DBT with digital or synthetic 2D images.These findings show improved cancer detection benefiting our patients as well as improved efficiency important for radiologists.”
Emily F. Conant, M.D., professor and chief of breast imaging from the Department of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
“The arrival of ProFound AI marks a real technological advancement in the development of breast cancer detection tools. I use ProFound AI in my daily practice, and it helps me in my diagnostic decision making. In the beginning, I was skeptical about how AI could help me, but I quickly understood the undeniable assistance ProFound AI could bring, especially with subtle lesions and complex cases.”
Corinne Balleyguier, MD, PhD, radiologist at Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France
“I’ve worked with ProFound AI for over a year now and I have seen significant improvements in the detection of breast cancers, especially in complicated cases. With such a high sensitivity and specificity, ProFound AI often reveals suspicious areas that may have been missed, and at the same time, reassures my decisions when no further patient procedures are needed.”
Axel Gräwingholt, MD, Radiologie am Theater, Paderborn, Germany
“It is like having a Radiologist in the room reading with you, someone you can trust, helping to diagnose, keeping you on track and getting through the case faster…. makes my job more fun”
Dr Randy Hicks M.B.A, Radiologist, Co-Owner and CEO
Regional Medical Imaging
“Implementing ProFound AI into our processes for breast cancer screenings will improve detection of breast cancer and reduction of false positives and recalls. With the enhanced technology available through 3D mammography, the review of the 84 slices of breast tissue per breast will now be expedited, but does not replace the specialized radiologist.”
John Simon, M.D., Founder and CEO of SimonMedon Stiver
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