AI-powered Imaging Platform Targeting Skin Cancer
Enspectra Health, a health tech company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation for its next generation AI-powered VIO™ Skin Platform (VIO) for the evaluation of lesions suspicious of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in select high risk populations. This novel platform integrates the FDA cleared VIO technology with VIO.ai NMSC, a CADx/CADt (Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Triage) software function that provides lesion classification to aid physicians in their clinical decision-making. The Breakthrough Devices Program is reserved for novel medical technologies that potentially provide for more effective diagnosis and/or treatment of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. It is intended to provide patients with timely access to medical devices that could provide more effective treatment compared to existing approved treatments by expediting their development, assessment, and review. BCC and SCC…




