A Medical Device Daily

Advanced Image Enhancement (AIE; Providence, Rhode Island), a provider of optimized image enhancement solutions for digital radiology, reported that the firm has entered into a licensing agreement with Hologic (Bedford, Massachusetts), a manufacturer of diagnostic and medical imaging systems for women’s healthcare.

AIE will provide its image enhancement software for Hologic’s SecureView diagnostic mammography workstations.

AIE’s image enhancement software, which leverages signal processing technology originally developed from Navy research to locate undersea mines, is designed to enable physicians to extract more information from medical images. In 2005, AIE completed its second clinical pilot study utilizing its image enhancement technology on the Hologic digital mammography diagnostic workstation.

AIE received approval from the FDA in September 2006 to market the technology.

“This contract with Hologic, the world leader in digital mammography, clearly validates our product,” said Michael Duarte, CEO and founder of AIE. “This is an important milestone for the company, as well as for the medical imaging community.”

AIE’s first product addresses the problems of visualizing subtle lesions in digital mammograms. Future applications of AIE technology include chest X-rays and orthopedics and other image modalities including ultrasound and MRI.