Matakina International and Microsoft Corp have partnered to make Matakina’s breast density assessment software, Volpara, available to users globally via the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Volpara is a tool that generates objective, automatic measurement of volumetric breast density values under the Volpara Density Grade, a grading system that correlates with the American College of Radiology BIRADS Density Grading Classifications. Volpara, cleared by the FDA, HealthCanada, the TGA, and CE-marked, is already in use at sites across the globe helping radiologists assess breast density objectively and helping them better consider who might benefit from additional screening.
Until now, Volpara has been installed on individual workstations or as an enterprise-wide solution where the software is installed on a central server. Driven by use of Volpara in a number of large clinical trials and national breast cancer screening programs worldwide, the additional cloud-based option now offers secure, HIPAA-compliant access to the raw mammography acquisition data required to perform breast density assessment. And, for the first time, the Cloud-based version also enables facilities and researchers to store unlimited data.
[source: Matakina]
