ContextVision announces first CE marked digital pathology product

STOCKHOLM – June 29, 2020 – ContextVision, a medical technology software company specializing in image analysis and artificial intelligence, today announced that its first digital pathology product in a planned portfolio has been granted CE mark status. This means that INIFY Prostate Screening is now available for routine clinical use within the European Union.

“I am proud of the great performance by our outstanding multidisciplinary team in reaching this company milestone. Healthcare systems around the world are already under great stress due to heavy workloads and lack of resources – and both patient numbers and cancer rates are only increasing. Intelligent technology will be a vital key to addressing these challenges, with powerful tools supporting the medical professionals in terms of efficiency and precision,” says Fredrik Palm, CEO at ContextVision.

“We are a first mover in what I am certain will become a billion-dollar market.”

ContextVision is an independent world-wide leader within digital image enhancement for multiple imaging modalities. With its 35-year history of developing advanced software for digital image analysis and enhancement, it was a natural step forward to invest in and aim for a leading position within clinical pathology – a discipline where today’s ongoing digitalization offers huge opportunities.

INIFY Prostate Screening is a powerful AI-based software that predicts, outlines and quantifies suspected cancerous areas in a series of prostate biopsies. It pre-sorts slides in a worst-first order, allowing pathologists to get right to work on the most relevant areas. While the product can be used as a stand-alone unit, even more importantly it is designed to be seamlessly integrated into pathology laboratories’ existing LIS (Laboratory Information Systems) or PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems).

“I can testify that it is really easy to use, saves time and helps highlight suspicious areas for cancer.”

The predicting engine in INIFY Prostate Screening is built on deep learning algorithms, trained and adapted by ContextVision’s skilled research scientists, resulting in proprietary high-performance algorithms with pixel-level accuracy. Our unique, patented MasterAnnotation method has been used to create the training data on which the engine is built. Here, multiplex immunofluorescent staining is used to objectively identify and highlight cancer areas and other structures with extreme precision, which in turn are quality assured by certified pathologists.