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Update: Reconcillio™ at ASTRO 2011
A Short Report
October 6, 2011 – Segasist Technologies launched its newest
software, Reconcillio™, at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO),
which was held this year at the Miami Beach Convention Center from
October 2-6, 2011.
During the event, the Segasist booth was visited by many clinicians
who were searching for innovative products. A total of 127 attendees
stopped at the booth, almost 90 of them unique, first time visitors.
Many of these clinicians enthusiastically participated in the Segasist
“Manual Contouring Challenge” to measure their contouring
skill and accuracy against a consensus contour provided by the new
Reconcillio software. Segasist P-AC, prostate auto-contouring, also
found a lot of interest, especially its modality-independent feature
and its fast slice-to-slice auto-segmentation.
However, Reconcillio was the main attraction at the booth: the
software that, for the first time ever, is capable of automated
generation of consensus contours for unseen images; for any modality
and any body part;
Many questions were asked about Reconcillio:
How does it work? How many experts can be involved? How does
it generate the consensus? How much does it cost?
We have been overwhelmed by the enthusiastic reception for
Reconcillio. We knew, prior to the show, that inter- and intra-observer
variability was and is a huge problem in medical imaging and
analysis, and solving this problem has been one of our driving
motivations for the past three years in working on Reconcillio.
However, the level of excitement and interest that Reconcillio’s
launch generated among the clinicians exceeded even our expectations
for the product.
Many oncologists provided invaluable advice and feedback
with respect to the main application fields envisioned for
Reconcillio. Many others were just eager to start using it.
For the Segasist team who had worked tirelessly during the
creation and lead up to the launch of Reconcillio, the excitement
and interest shown by clinicians in the field was extremely
gratifying and a validation of their faith in the product’s
abilities and the long hours of effort spent in recent weeks
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ASTRO 2011 was an amazing experience. Through numerous conversations
with the clinicians at the show, we were assured, repeatedly, of
the urgent need for Reconcillio, and the role it could perform in
helping to establish a quality framework for the future of contouring
in radiation oncology.
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About Segasist Technologies
Segasist Technologies is a software company based in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada focused on developing volumetric analysis productivity
tools for use with advanced visualization modalities including MR,
Ultrasound, and CT. The company's premiere product - Segasist segmentation
assistant software - is initially thought to be feasible for use
in improving accuracy in delineating healthy versus unhealthy tissue
in radiation planning and radiology. Segasist is a flexible solution;
it can be applied to a multitude of medical image types, integrated
into existing commercial visualization and planning software, or
used as a plug-in productivity tool in a clinical setting.
For more information contact: Dr. Hamid R. Tizhoosh, (647) 260-7834
or visit http://www.segasist.com
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