Altris Receives FDA Clearance of Altris IMS Platform for OCT Scan Analysis
Altris received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Altris IMS, the company’s image, and data management platform. The Altris platform is designed to store, organize, and support in-depth analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scans. The platform provides secure, on-the-cloud, web-based access to facilitate more convenient and accurate OCT scan analysis in ophthalmology and optometry, according to a company news release.
The Altris IMS platform has a number of features that aim to improve the OCT examination analysis routine:
Manual annotations and device agnostic measurements. These features are for eye care professionals who want to visualize retina layers, highlight areas of interest on the OCT scans, such as retinal pathologies, and measure their length and width as well as area and volume.
Comparison feature. Eye care specialists can monitor the state of the pathology and its change over time to compare it to the same eye in different time intervals
Both eyes feature. Eye care specialists can add a fellow eye to the current examination to compare both of them at the same time.
Progression feature. It allows eye care professionals to track the progression of a patient's pathology by adding multiple examinations of the same eye to see the pathology progression.
The smart reporting feature allows the creation of complete OCT analysis reports.
“OCT is one of the best and the most difficult for interpretation ophthalmic imaging methods. That is why we wanted to make it more effective and accurate," Maria Znamenska, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Chief Medical Officer of Altris AI, said in a company news release. "With the Altris AI platform, eye care specialists are finally equipped with the tool that helps them detect retinal pathologies, pathological signs, and biomarkers. It means less human errors, early detection of the pathologies that can lead to blindness, and better patient outcomes as a result.”
The FDA clearance brings Altris AI closer to commercializing its solutions for OCT interpretation and analysis in the US market.
Since 2018, Altris AI has been developing software solutions for OCT interpretation to support eye care professionals in clinical decision-making using advanced machine learning and computer vision algorithms.
In addition to the IMS platform, Altris has AI models to enable vendor-neutral retina layers segmentation, as well as detection and visualization of more than 70 retina conditions such as dry and wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), geographic atrophy (GA), diabetic retinopathy (DR), diabetic macular edema (DME), central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), and others. These AI models are CE-certified and the company is planning the next FDA submission in the beginning of 2024.
Altris has also developed a comparison functionality for automatic AI pathology progression tracking designed to allow eye care professionals to quantify precisely the changes and pathology dynamics. Once approved, these AI solutions will be integrated into the Altris platform for automated OCT scan analysis.