Augmento

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Radiology Optimization Platform

Augmento is a smart AI-based platform for radiologists to evaluate and report X-ray, CT, and
MRI scans. By intelligently optimizing radiology workflows, Augmento reduces radiologist
effort, improves productivity, and reduces reporting times. This ultimately leads to higher-
quality reports and lower costs.

Pathologies that Augmento's AI can detect from radiology images.

Augmento is a comprehensive solution. Its AI models can accurately detect 17 different

pathologies. These models pre-screen all studies and present their results to the radiologist
who can approve or modify them at the click of a button. A standardized high-quality report
is instantly generated and made available to the radiologist for a final sign-off. The AI
organizes all cases to be reported as a smart worklist that presents critical cases first. This
ensures prompt service to those who need attention the most. The analytics dashboard
provides a visual overview of cases reported, patient demographics, imaging modalities, etc.
The inbuilt notification system supports sending push notifications to physicians,
administrators, and patients.

In our experiments, a group of radiologists assisted by Augmento demonstrated an 86% improvement in productivity and a 46% reduction
in reporting times over the control group not using Augmento.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming radiology by blurring lines between Picture Archival
and Communication Systems (PACS) and AI Enabled Service Offerings. AI will be enabling
radiology with "Intelligent AI PACS". Augmento is the first "AI enabled PACS" with a bouquet
of micro-services transforming radiology workflows and optimizing radiology practice with
deep learning and machine learning tools.

Current Coverage

Chest X Rays (15+ pathologies) Knee X Rays (N pathologies)

CT: Liver Tumor CT: Pneumonia | CovidSuspects MRI: Brain Tumor

Augmento for chest, spine and joint scans combined with "smart reporting solutions" makes
reporting stress free, reduce burnouts and improves turn around time for reports. Smart
Reporting Tools will make radiology reports detailed and effortless. "Feedback loops"
between Augmento and imaging experts/ Radiologists will further result in significant savings
in time and remove the repetitive tasks from the radiologists worklist.
Key Features
Pathology Prediction

The Augmento will gives classification labels according to what the AI predict and prompt the
detected area (box-like localisations on each image) that need attention by radiologists. Its AI
models can accurately detect 17 different pathologies. These models pre-screen all studies
and present their results to the radiologist who can approve or modify them at the click of a
button.

Performance Audit and Tuning by a Unique Expert-in-the-Loop

In our workflow, radiologists audit the predictions generated by our AI models. Incorrect
predictions are collected and feedback to the algorithms is ingrained in the system through a
feedback loop. This ensures that the models not only keep improving but also evolve and
adapt to changes in the input data. The Augmento platform gets better and better with use
and gets customized to the users based on their preferences.
Report Critical Studies Instantly
Radiologists can access critical studies first, as Augmento prioritizes studies almost magically
using AI. Radiologists can sort and search for studies by pathologies predicted by AI and
criticality.

Smart Reporting
Once the radiologist agrees with a finding predicted by the AI, the platform generates a
complete radiology report in compliance with RSNA/ACR guidelines. The radiologist can
modify and regenerate an incomplete report using the tools inbuilt in the platform as a
microservice. It is as if the platform understands beforehand what the imaging expert is going
to pen down in the report. A report edited and approved by a radiologist is sent directly to
the hospital/Physician/Patients

Gender Conflict Alert

The gender alert feature helps avoid gender mismatch in delivered reports. During review and
reporting, if a radiologist accidentally uses a male template in a female patient’s report, a
pop-up alerts the radiologist to go back and correct the issue before submitting the report.
Quick Compare
Quick compare allows comparison of two or more studies of the same patient. This
comparison, which typically takes 3 to 5 minutes, can be condensed into 30 seconds to 1
minute by Augmento.

Smart Notifications
The Report tab has a green check mark for a reported case and a red cross for an unreported
case. It also displays four other icons. Users can preview, view, download the report, and
share it with a clinic or referring physician using the other buttons

The yellow triangles indicate the triage status of

each study. The radiologist has the option to raise
alerts, which manifest as blinking yellow triangles.
Treating physicians, floor administrators, and even
patients are notified automatically of these alerts
via secure chat/email or SMS
Smart Analytics
Augmento automatically visualizes data to give insights on patient demographics and
location, image modalities, AI predictions, and radiologist workload.

The geolocation map below visualizes areas with patients diagnosed with community-
acquired diseases like COVID-19 and tuberculosis. This map acts as ground truth to confirm
the disease burden in a particular region and can help make decisions on containment zones.
Users and Deployment Options
The platform is versatile and caters to various users such as radiologist, technologist, front
end receptionist, physician, floor managers, administrators, and nodal officers. Users get
controlled administrative privileges to monitor and use specific areas of the platform. These
can be customized to adhere to hospital security requirements and rules set by regulatory
authorities

Augmento comes with two deployment options that make up its on-ground
component
Cloud: The platform is rendered through a secure cloud service such that it can receive scans
from different geographical locations. Radiologists and administrators in different locations
can log into the platform to access its services. Augmento is currently in use in more than
sixty hospitals and medical imaging centres. A gateway software ensures that images are
shared with the platform. It can queue, push, or pull after discussion with the stakeholders.
All the analysis and pre-screening happens on the cloud, and the results are sent to various
stakeholders. The smart notification system updates and alerts healthcare professionals as
well as patients. Being a cloud platform, it's scalable at a moment’s notice and highly elastic
with negligible downtime. It gives way to a truly virtualized, AI-infused radiology department.

On-Premise: A few large hospitals and imaging clinics typically opt for the on-premise
version. It has the same features as the cloud version but acts within a fixed perimeter of a
given local area network with the server hosted locally