Just recently, Canon Medical launched its bold new approach to AI innovation…Altivity. We are extremely proud of this development, as it consolidates our range of deep learning and machine learning technologies to help clinicians deliver better outcomes to their patients and their business. If nothing else, the last twelve months have shown to us how adaptable and ready for change we need to be. The strain placed on healthcare systems by COVID-19 has pushed clinicians to their limits. Incidences of cancer, heart disease, and stroke are rising. And the increasing complexity of patient data is creating new opportunities that could easily be missed without insights and guidance from the right technology.

For many, these issues represent overwhelming challenges that are too difficult to resolve or require too great an investment. For us, however, we see them as opportunities for growth. At a time when resources are limited, we are doing everything we can to help our customers deliver informed healthcare with efficient workflows, so their patients can access the tailored treatment they need. And we are doing it with the power of AI.

Canon Medical has been steadily redefining the role of AI in healthcare, starting with our Advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine. Initially developed for CT, Canon Medical quickly deployed this Deep Learning Reconstruction technology across MRI and PET-CT systems to help speed up scan times and improve image quality. Next, came the launch of Automation Platform and the ^AUTOStroke solution*, both of which were designed to enhance clinical confidence and streamline workflows with the power of deep learning technology.

More recently, Canon Medical has transformed the ultrasound space with AI innovations, available in certain regions, that revolutionize clinical workflows. Through leveraging the power of AI, Canon Medical has been able to automate standardized serial measurements to increase clinical productivity and reporting accuracy.

As ever, our vision is to build a future where every individual receives the diagnosis and treatment that they need to live their lives to the fullest. While this won't happen overnight, I know that it starts with systems and solutions that are “Made for Life”.

Toshio Takiguchi
CEO
Canon Medical Systems

Altivity is a new AI innovation brand from Canon Medical that consolidates machine learning and deep learning technologies. It reflects our bold new approach to AI, using smart technologies to make a whole new level of quality, insight and value across the entire care pathway possible.

Informed healthcare
Altivity is here to help your clinical confidence with high-quality images and applications that help you make informed decisions in real-time, at the point of delivery.

Fast, tailored care
Altivity has been created with your patients in mind to deliver the fast and accurate results they need for a more personalized treatment approach.

Efficient workflows
Altivity helps create simple, streamlined AI-driven workflows that optimize resource deployment and ensure your teams have the insights they need to work smarter every day.

Canon Medical’s Automation Platform (AP) is an AI-based, zero-click solution that uses deep learning technology to automatically orchestrate data and streamline clinical workflows, thereby reducing workload.

From scanner to clinical decision, the AP streamlines workflows to automate post processing of images and deliver actionable results fast, accurately and every time - for accurate triage, notification and treatment decisions.
Automation Platform intelligently harnesses the power of deep-learning AI to automatically organize, normalize and process results from image repositories and world-class modalities. The AP performs the following automated tasks:

• Collect & curate
• − Automatically collects, processes and tags clinically relevant patient data, from systems and repositories, including Advanced Intelligent Clear IQ Engine (AiCE) images
• Process & categorize
• − Intelligently and accurately classify incoming DICOM data using neural network data categorization; and auto dispatch to relevant clinical applications based on AI rules
• Evaluate images & detect abnormalities
• − Utilizes a suite of clinical applications (many AI-powered) to automatically produce standard results for interpretation
• Deliver results & alerts
• − Streamlines clinical workflows with a concise summary of the right qualitative and quantitative insights, with alerts to potentially urgent conditions, thereby augmenting clinical decisions.

The Automation Platform runs validated clinical applications, packaged for multiple clinical care continuums, and fully integrated within these workflows and clinical systems.
The first suite of solutions designed to run on the Automation Platform focus on stroke; automatically analyzing images to fully characterize stroke conditions and provide instant information to emergency and stroke teams to aid in clinical evaluation and treatment.
By delivering fast, reproducible and consistent results, the zero-click Automation Platform helps to reduce variability amongst clinicians and significantly improve staff workflow.

AiCE is an innovative approach to CT reconstruction that uses Deep Learning technology to match the spatial resolution and low-noise properties of advanced model-based iterative reconstructions. Trained using vast amounts of high-quality image data, reconstructed with an advanced model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) algorithm, AiCE distinguishes true signal from noise to deliver exceptional images at low radiation dose. Furthermore, AiCE can be seamlessly integrated into your routine exam protocols to reconstruct images at a speed fast enough to keep pace in a busy clinical setting while delivering up to 82.4%^*1 reduced dose levels compared to conventional reconstruction technology (Filtered Back projection). AiCE has potential to aid in fast and confident clinical results by providing low noise, natural noise texture^*2, sharp high-contrast resolution, and clear low-contrast detectability.

Sharp, clear, and distinct images. See through the noise.

Advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE) is the world's first fully integrated MR deep learning reconstruction technology producing stunning MR images that are exceptionally detailed and with the low-noise properties you might expect of a high SNR image. AiCE can be applied across a broad range of anatomies, contrast and applications so you no longer need to compromise between resolution and speed.

AiCE intelligently removes noise from images which results in higher SNR* and enables increased resolution. By improving SNR you can achieve sharp, clear, and distinct images utilizing the power of deep learning to see through the noise.

AiCE has been carefully designed by scientists with expert knowledge of MR physics and signal processing together with specialists in programming advanced AI neural networks to ensure accurate and robust results for all patient studies. To overcome contrast and signal variation in MRI data, AiCE denoising is restricted to high-frequency noise leaving low frequency information untouched. The amount of noise reduction and image sharpness can be fine-tuned to cater for your site preferences to ensure optimal diagnostic image quality is provided for all patients.