From the November 2022 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

Oxipit scores CE Mark for first autonomous AI application, ChestLink

Oxipit nabbed European approval for ChestLink in April, the first AI application designed to conduct diagnostic evaluations of chest X-rays alone without help from radiologists.


The company scored the CE Mark for its solution, which it says will help alleviate radiologist shortages by automating between 15% to 40% of daily reporting workflows, depending on the type of medical institution. It can now be deployed in 32 European countries.

When highly confident that X-ray scans show no abnormalities, ChestLink produces final reports for healthy patients. Oxipit says that these X-rays would appear normal to trained professionals and that by automating the work for them, ChestLink gives them more time to focus on patients and complete other important tasks. It takes into account aspects of patient age, clinical context and varying radiologist subjectivity.

Fully autonomous ChestLink operations in a clinical setting are expected to start in early 2023, according to company CEO Gediminas Peksys. “The sensitivity metric of 99% has translated to zero clinically relevant errors at our deployment institutions during the application piloting stage.”

The solution is based on Oxipit ChestEye, an earlier platform developed by the company for preliminary chest X-ray reports. Oxipit ChestEye can identify 75 radiological findings, which makes up approximately 90% of the abnormalities that radiologists encounter daily.

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