FDA-cleared profile

EFAI ERSUITE CT APPENDICITIS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (APPEN-CT-100)

Ever Fortune.Ai, Co., Ltd.

Authorized purpose: Triage notification of suspected appendicitis on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT

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

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Authorized purpose: Triage notification of suspected appendicitis on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: Triage notification of suspected appendicitis on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: Retrospective blinded multisite study of 300 consecutive US CTs, 139 positive and 161 negative, with three board-certified radiologists and majority reference. Mean processing time was 3.37 minutes in the study, not a service-level commitment.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Triage notification of suspected appendicitis on contrast-enhanced abdominal CT
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Intended users
Hospital networks and trained clinicians
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
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
Triage or notification support
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Required input
Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT DICOM images
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Output and human action
Case-level text/JSON notification to PACS/RIS/workstation; no DICOM viewer, image overlay, location marking, worklist reprioritization or removal.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Limitations
Not a diagnostic device and does not alter the original image. Clinicians must review full images and all patient information under standard care.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

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FDA submission
K253163
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
CT/CTA
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Anatomy
Abdomen
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Clearance type
510(k)
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2026-04-22
  • 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
Passive JSON notification into PACS/RIS workstation workflow
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Deployment and data flow
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05

Hosting and local network topology were not established.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05

No scoped dated security attestation reviewed.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05

Site triage escalation and notification training are unestablished.

Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05

Site audit of alert delivery and missed/false alerts requires confirmation.

Vendor emergency-imaging context

Vendor positions CT-based AI assistance for emergency and radiology workflows.

product family ยท checked 2026-09-06

Page does not establish APPEN-CT-100-specific interfaces or performance.

Evidence

Performance evidence

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Evidence summary
Retrospective blinded multisite study of 300 consecutive US CTs, 139 positive and 161 negative, with three board-certified radiologists and majority reference. Mean processing time was 3.37 minutes in the study, not a service-level commitment.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Reported sensitivity
92.8% (95% CI 87.3%-96.0%)
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05
Reported specificity
93.2% (95% CI 88.2%-96.1%)
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-05

Sensitivity

92.8 %

  • EndpointSuspected appendicitis case triage
  • Population300 consecutive US contrast-enhanced abdominal CTs
  • Tested versionAPPEN-CT-100 in K253163

Specificity

93.2 %

  • EndpointSuspected appendicitis case triage
  • Population300 consecutive US contrast-enhanced abdominal CTs
  • Tested versionAPPEN-CT-100 in K253163

K253163 appendicitis triage standalone study

  • DesignRetrospective blinded multisite standalone performance study
  • Population300 consecutive US CTs; 139 appendicitis-positive, 161 negative
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionAPPEN-CT-100
  • Samplen=300
  • IndependenceIndependence not established

K253163

Costs and setup

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-06

No exact product price/procurement record reviewed.

Reimbursement and coding
Research pending
  • Needs research
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-06

No applicable payer policy reviewed.

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
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

No native submission-identifier match was found in the checked openFDA radiology recall snapshot. Product-name, manufacturer, and adverse-event searches remain necessary; this does not establish that no recall or safety report exists.

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Research record

What has been checked

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Human reviewedStatus
2026-09-06Last searched
21Fields reviewed
10Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
0Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Stored PubMed and clinical-trial arrays are empty and were screened. 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, acr ai central product, fda decision summary, vendor product page, literature index, trial registry, recall database, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

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Source ledger

  1. K253163 FDA decision source

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

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, purpose, modality, anatomy

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

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

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. EFAI ERSUITE CT APPENDICITIS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (APPEN-CT-100) model card (K253163)

    American College of Radiology - Published 2026-08-17 - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: intendedUsers, careSetting, output, reportedSensitivity, reportedSpecificity, 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. EFAI ERSUITE CT Appendicitis Assessment System: K253163 decision and 510(k) summary

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-05

    Scope: identity, clinical, evidence, implementation

  8. Ever Fortune AI medical imaging solutions

    Ever Fortune.AI - Accessed 2026-09-06

    Scope: implementation

Research history

  1. K253163 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    human reviewed

  3. Reader overview source-reviewed

    Editorial review

    Source-reviewed editorial overlay

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