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AIFI pilot started in five Dutch hospitals
February 17, 2025 – Tiel – The AI For Imaging (AIFI) pilot project is officially launched. The AIFI project focuses on making artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Automated bone age at University Hospital Crosshouse
Located in Crosshouse, near Kilmarnock in Scotland, University Hospital Crosshouse is a teaching hospital and the largest facility within NHS Ayrshire & Arran, serving a...
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Google AI talks about BoneXpert AI
We might be crossing a line these days, as AI is not only taking over some of the radiologists’ work, but also taking over talking...
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Validation of BoneXpert in India
Dr Anuradha V. Khadilkar’s research group in Pune, India, has published a study of BoneXpert bone age, reporting its accuracy and presenting reference curves for...
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BHI reference curves in 12 populations
New results on Bone Health Index reference curves for 12 populations spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America were presented at the recent International Conference...
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Hand radiographs as a potential replacement for DXA in osteopenia screening
At the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) conference held in Sevilla in June 2024, Karen Rosendahl of Tromsø (awarded the ESPR 2024 Gold Medal)...
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Auckland Radiology Group become the first private radiology clinic in New Zealand to adopt BoneXpert
Auckland Radiology Group – Auckland’s largest independent radiology provider – has become the first private radiology clinic in New Zealand to adopt BoneXpert’s AI software-based...
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External validation of commercial AI products
Kicky van Leeuwen and the AIR Working Group of Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) have performed an external validation of commercial AI systems for bone...
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Ruby Hall Clinic uses BoneXpert software
Visiana welcomes Ruby Hall Clinic as a BoneXpert customer. Ruby Hall Clinic is a flagship hospital in Pune, India, providing healthcare through a system of...
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Aerial view of Radiology AI in the Netherlands
In a new, open access paper in European Radiology, Kicky van Leeuwen and a team from Nijmegen surveyed which AIs are actually used in radiology...
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Fracture study from Birmingham
Bone Health Index is significantly lower in children with vertebral fractures than in children without.
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Widespread use of BoneXpert in the United Kingdom
BoneXpert has been installed in more than 80% of the major hospitals in the United Kingdom.
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Swiss study compares two bone age algorithms
The accuracy of bone age determination by BoneXpert and Panda in 188 images was reported at ECR. Federica Zanca from Leuven, together with four co-authors...
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BoneXpert – the most widely used radiology AI in the Netherlands in 2022
At ECR, Kicky van Leeuwen of Radboud University Medical Center gave the talk “The rise of artificial intelligence solutions in radiology departments in the Netherlands”....
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BoneXpert knows its own limitation
A new paper documents BoneXpert’s accuracy and self-validation
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New paper: How do radiologists use BoneXpert?
A questionnaire was sent out to 282 radiologists in Europe using BoneXpert. The aim was to reveal to what extent radiologists have been replaced by...
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United States patent granted to Visiana
The US patent office has granted Visiana a patent for the invention of an image processing method. A key element of BoneXpert is to locate...
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Over 200 hospitals have licensed BoneXpert
With the implementation of BoneXpert at the University Hospital in Innsbruck in Austria, there are now over 200 departments, who have licensed BoneXpert, each performing...
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Bone Health Index demonstrates relation to fractures in Klinefelter children
A study published in Journal of the Endocrine Society by Vogiatzi and Ross of Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, followed 90 Klinefelter boys, half of...
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Financial impacts of BoneXpert; Webinar highlights with Prof. Amaka Offiah and Dr. Alistair Calder
Visiana held its BoneXpert webinar to explore the automation of the processes in radiology that is currently taking place in the UK. Presenters were Professor...
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How well does Bone Health Index correlate with DXA?
The journal “Bone” brings a new paper entitled “Which skeletal imaging modality is best for assessing bone health in children and young adults compared to...
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BoneXpert – A mature AI product
In April, Kicky van Leeuwen et al presented the paper Artificial intelligence in radiology: 100 commercially available products and their scientific evidence. It got quite some...
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Almost full house in Scandinavia
Visiana welcomes the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør Øst) as a BoneXpert customer. Helse Sør Øst includes Norway’s capital Oslo, and the authority provides...
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BoneXpert validated in Afghan toddlers
A new paper by Suma Uday et al reports the use of BoneXpert to study bone age and BHI in deprived Afghan children of age...
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BoneXpert is accurate in Moroccan children
A study from Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital in Brussels on the accuracy of bone age has been published.
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Celebrating 50 BoneXpert publications on PubMed
Searching PubMed with “BoneXpert” yields 50 publications until the end of 2020. Until 2017, there were 31 publications of which 18 were coauthored by Visiana....
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New Adult Height Predictor supports three ethnicities
The Bayley-Pinneau method for adult height prediction (AHP) from age, bone age and height was developed in 1952 based on American white children. In 2009,...
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What do PACS admins say about BoneXpert?
A survey among 33 PACS administrators gives BoneXpert Server good marks It has been said that it is hard to integrate “AI systems” in the...
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BoneXpert Online: Automated bone age in your browser
BoneXpert for automated bone age assessment is installed in more than 150 hospital clinics and the system has performed more than 500.000 bone age measurements...
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New bone age reference curves from Taiwan
A new independent study has been published with bone age reference curves for healthy Taiwanese children.
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Visiana expands and unveils new office space
We are happy to announce that Visiana have moved to a new, larger office on Fremtidsvej 1, not far from our old office, and still...
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New bone age reference curves from Mexico
A new independent study has been published with bone age reference curves for healthy Mexican children
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Dutch paper on implementation of AI in radiology
European Radiology features an article from Utrecht UMC, investigating the adoption of BoneXpert and other AI methods in radiology in the Netherlands
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BoneXpert – the most widespread AI radiology software in the Netherlands
The Diagnostic Image Analysis Group (DIAG) at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands has created the site AI for Radiology listing 100 CE-marked, machine...
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Reduced use of bone age during Covid-19
BoneXpert use dropped to 28% of the normal level in the period 23 March – 19 April. The following four weeks it rose to 45%...
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BoneXpert in Chile
Clínica Alemana in Santiago, Chile, has been a customer of Visiana since 2018, performing 5900 BoneXpert analyses per year. The clinic took initiative to perform...
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RSNA challenge boosts automated bone age ratings
RNSA (The Radiological Society of North America) organized a machine learning challenge in bone age rating in 2017. This article reviews the challenge and explains...
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BoneXpert version 3.0 released
The long-awaited version 3.0 of BoneXpert is now rolling out to all customers. It represents the most significant update, since BoneXpert's launch 10 years ago....
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BoneXpert in 135 hospitals
BoneXpert has been licensed to several major children’s hospitals in Italy, culminating with the sales to the largest children’s hospital in Europe Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù in...
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Hands-on AI
There is a lot of talk about how artificial intelligence will affect radiology, but not much about the AI systems already in use. It is therefore...
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BoneXpert licensed to 100 hospitals
Over 100 hospitals are now using BoneXpert!
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Special Focus Session on age assessment at ESPR 2017
Prof Dr med Oskar Jenni of University of Zurich with expertise in developmental psychology, and PhD Hans Henrik Thodberg, developer of BoneXpert, will give a joint,...
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BoneXpert licensed to 80 hospitals
BoneXpert has been introduced in four new countries by a purchase from these institutions: Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, England CHU Toulouse, France Istituto Giannina Gaslini,...
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Assessment of arthritis with BoneXpert
Two new papers report the use of BoneXpert to assess rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis. They exploit the recent extension of BoneXpert’s measurement of cortical thickness...
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Automated bone age extended up to 19 years
The upcoming release of BoneXpert version 2.4 (version 2.4.5.1, released Dec 28) extends the Greulich-Pyle bone age range up to 19 years for boys and...
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The world’s first osteoporosis screening
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s first public presentation of the new X-rays took place on the 23rd of January 1896 in Würzburg. The Swiss anatomist Albert von Kölliker...
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BoneXpert licensed to 60 hospitals
The number of hospitals having purchased a license to BoneXpert and doing at least 100 analyses per year has risen to 60.
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Adult height Prediction Study in Paris
Pediatric Radiology has published a paper on validation of adult height prediction (AHP) in the Paris longitudinal study of children born 1953-58.
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New Adult Height Predictor with growth path
The BoneXpert adult height predictor, based on the 2009 JCEM article, has been extended, so that it now plots the entire predicted growth path in...
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The friendly co-existence of BoneXpert and image post-processing
BoneXpert, version 2, from January 2013 introduced an increased robustness towards image post-processing. More specifically: edge enhancement and contrast amplification. This version made bone age...
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BoneXpert licensed to 32 hospitals
Thirty-two hospitals have now purchased a license to BoneXpert, a doubling since November 2012.
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Three new publications
ACTA Radiology’s November 2013 issue is devoted to invited articles on pediatric radiology and features a review entitled “Bone age assessment: automated techniques coming of...
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Adult height prediction for short children
Hormone Research in Pediatrics brings a new article on prediction of adult height of short children using manual methods and BoneXpert.
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BoneXpert licensed to 16 hospitals
The BoneXpert Server version has been well received in Europe due to its ideal integration in the radiologists’ workflow.
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New thoughtful article in Radiology about CAD
Radiology brings an interesting article entitled “Computer-aided Diagnosis: How to Move from the Laboratory to the Clinic”, which presents a remarkably deep analysis of the...
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How dangerous is it to eat a banana?
A discussion of the radiation dose of a bone age hand X-ray. The hazard of ionizing radiation is of great concern in pediatric radiology, but...
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Three new publications
The validation of BoneXpert is extended by three new publications
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New validation study of BoneXpert in Academic Radiology
The BoneXpert bone age method has been validated in a study of healthy American children of four ethnicities in a paper published by the American...
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April 2010: Three new publications
Hormone Research in Paediatrics has published three papers on BoneXpert online.
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Dr. David Martin receives the Jürgen-Bierich Prize for work on adult height prediction
The paediatrician Dr. David Martin (36) of the Children’s University Hospital in Tübingen received the Jürgen Bierich Prize of 5,000 Euros of the German Society...
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New paper on Bone Health Index
Osteoporosis International has published a paper on a new pediatric bone index in BoneXpert (also known as the Bone Health Index, BHI). The full text...
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Clinical Review of BoneXpert in JCEM
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolisms, the official journal The Endocrine Society, has published a succinct clinical review of the BoneXpert method for automated...