Kodak Announces FDA Approval for Mammography CAD Software Enhancements

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 21 -- Eastman Kodak Company today announced it has obtained FDA approval for enhancements to its mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) system. New software for the KODAK Mammography CAD System increases the system’s sensitivity to microcalcification clusters while reducing the number of false positive markers. The enhanced software is now available.

This is the first update to software for the CAD system, which was launched only ten months ago. Existing customers receive software upgrades as part of Kodak’s standard one-year warranty.

“Kodak is pleased to provide another digital tool in the fight against breast cancer,” said Wido Menhardt, General Manager of the CAD Business, Kodak’s Health Group.

Kodak’s portfolio of digital image and information management solutions for mammography providers also includes the KODAK DIRECTVIEW Mammography Workstation that provides viewing of imaging modalities from multiple vendors. This mammography workstation integrates with picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) from Kodak and other vendors.

The KODAK DIRECTVIEW PACS System 5 provides efficient image review, distribution and storage for full-field digital mammography, ultrasound, MRI, CT and other digital modalities. This platform provides a comprehensive PACS solution for breast imaging centers and enables existing KODAK PACS users to easily integrate digital mammography exams into general radiology workflows.
About Kodak’s Health Group

Kodak’s Health Group, with 2004 revenues of $2.68 billion, supplies the medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and information systems. Its portfolio includes picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), radiology information systems (RIS), IT solutions, clinical information solutions, computed and digital radiography systems, laser imagers, mammography and oncology systems, x-ray film systems, and dental imaging products. Its services portfolio includes everything from repair and maintenance, to professional services encompassing integration, storage and archiving, secure e-mail services – and much more.

Kodak’s other major businesses include: Graphic Communications – providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, and document scanning and multi-vendor IT services; Digital & Film Imaging Systems – providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; and Display & Components – supplying original equipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD display industries.

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