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Al-Rad Companion (Musculoskeletal)

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

Authorized purpose: Provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of previously acquired CT DICOM images to support radiologists and physicians in musculoskeletal-disease assessment.

MSK and boneQuantification and segmentation
Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Product overview

Start with the essentials

Authorized purpose: Provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of previously acquired CT DICOM images to support radiologists and physicians in musculoskeletal-disease assessment.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: Provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of previously acquired CT DICOM images to support radiologists and physicians in musculoskeletal-disease assessment.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: VA10 nonclinical testing plus retrospective 140 chest-CT cases with four-radiologist ground truth reported height agreement of 95.1% at slices 1 mm or less and density agreement of 98.8%.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of previously acquired CT DICOM images to support radiologists and physicians in musculoskeletal-disease assessment.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

Clinical-use display mirrors the exact FDA-supported purpose reconciled in this remediation finding.

Intended users
Radiologists and physicians in emergency, specialty, urgent-care, and general-practice settings.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet intended-user statement.

Care setting and population
Adult
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-01

Patient-population text reported in the exact-submission ACR model card; institutional setting may still require vendor confirmation.

Workflow role
Post-processing analysis
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

Conservative normalization of explicit wording in an exact-submission source.

Required input
Previously acquired adult-patient CT DICOM images.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet input scope.

Output and human action
Vertebral segmentation and labeling, height measurements with critical-difference indication, and mean Hounsfield value in a vertebral volume of interest.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet output scope.

Limitations
Valid input is adult-patient DICOM images; universal scanner support is not established by the packet.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

Exact FDA input limitation.

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

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FDA submission
K193267
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
CT/CTA
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA CT scope normalized to controlled CT bucket.

Anatomy
Spine
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet vertebral analysis from thorax CT.

Clearance type
510(k)
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2020-03-16
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

Implementation

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Integration
The exact-submission ACR model card explicitly references DICOM in the described input, output, or workflow; exact interfaces, versions, and local compatibility require confirmation.
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-01

Interoperability terms explicitly reported in the exact-submission ACR model card; interface versions and local compatibility still require confirmation.

Deployment and data flow
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

The reviewed sources do not establish the current exact-release hosting topology, data flow, region, tenancy, or disaster-recovery configuration.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

Exact-release security controls, data retention, hosting boundaries, and scoped assurance documentation require vendor confirmation.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

Current training prerequisites, competency checks, and support commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

Current drift, quality, uptime, alert, escalation, and incident-response commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Input or output interoperability

DICOM is explicitly referenced in the described input, output, or workflow.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

The model card does not establish every supported DICOM object, transfer method, or local interface.

Source

Supported acquisition environment

Scanner manufacturers: All

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

Confirm currently supported software versions, protocols, and site-specific acquisition configurations.

Source

ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for Al-Rad Companion (Musculoskeletal); FDA labeling remains controlling for clinical use, limitations, and performance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-09
Source

Evidence

Performance evidence

Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version. Candidate literature without exact product and version linkage is not shown as product evidence.

Evidence summary
VA10 nonclinical testing plus retrospective 140 chest-CT cases with four-radiologist ground truth reported height agreement of 95.1% at slices 1 mm or less and density agreement of 98.8%.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

Submission-reported testing.

Reported sensitivity
Research pending
  • Needs research
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

This field has not been curated yet.

Reported specificity
Research pending
  • Needs research
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

This field has not been curated yet.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

Al-Rad Companion (Musculoskeletal) regulatory performance study summary

  • DesignStand-Alone Performance
  • PopulationAdult
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionExact product version not reported; regulatory study summarized for FDA submission K193267
  • Samplen=140
  • IndependenceIndependence not established

K193267

ACR AI Central summarizes the regulatory study; consult the exact FDA materials before comparative use.

Source

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

No public price or quote for the exact K193267 configuration was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

No exact-product payer policy, coding instruction, or payment determination was established; eligibility must be evaluated by payer, site of service, and use case.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
The exact-identifier FDA recall query returned no native recall record for K193267. This limited result does not establish absence of recalls or other safety information and does not cover later versions, family records, MAUDE reports, corrections, or field notices.
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

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Research record

What has been checked

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Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-20Last searched
24Fields reviewed
10Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
0Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

The refreshed discovery snapshot contains no PubMed or ClinicalTrials.gov candidates; no external evidence was promoted. The current discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records; its dated, count-matched human screening remains current. Unlinked candidates remain quarantined. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads were screened against the exact product and tested version. Unlinked records remain quarantined.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, acr ai central product, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, fda decision summary packet, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA K193267: Al-Rad Companion (Musculoskeletal)

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2020-03-16 - Accessed 2026-09-09

    Scope: identity, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, workflow, evidence, implementation, purpose, intendedUsers, input, output, limitations, evidenceSummary

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. Al-Rad Companion (Musculoskeletal) model card (K193267)

    American College of Radiology - Published 2026-06-26 - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: intendedUsers, careSetting, output, limitations, evidenceSummary, integration, anatomy, evidenceStudies, implementationCapabilities

  4. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  5. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  7. openFDA exact recall query for K193267

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-09

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K193267 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

  3. Reader overview source-reviewed

    Editorial review

    Source-reviewed editorial overlay

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