FDA-cleared profile

Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic, Optellum software, Optellum platform

Optellum Ltd

Authorized purpose: Tracks, assesses, and characterizes incidentally detected pulmonary nodules, with a CADx function for pulmonologists and radiologists.

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: Tracks, assesses, and characterizes incidentally detected pulmonary nodules, with a CADx function for pulmonologists and radiologists.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: Tracks, assesses, and characterizes incidentally detected pulmonary nodules, with a CADx function for pulmonologists and radiologists.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: Standalone LCP-CNN AUC was 0.867; MRMC study used 300 subjects, 12 readers, and 9 hospitals and reported mean reader AUC improvement of 6.85 points.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

Start with the authorized purpose, then verify how it fits your service line and reading workflow.

Exact purpose
Tracks, assesses, and characterizes incidentally detected pulmonary nodules, with a CADx function for pulmonologists and radiologists.
  • 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
Pulmonologists and radiologists for CADx; clinicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and navigators for management functions without the score.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet user scope.

Care setting and population
Research pending
  • Needs research
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

Confirm the intended care setting, patient population, and service line.

Workflow role
Measurement or quantification
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

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

Required input
User-selected regions of interest from lung CT through DICOM/PACS.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet input scope.

Output and human action
An LCP-CNN integer score from 1 to 10 with histogram context; it is not a malignancy probability.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA packet output scope.

Limitations
For incidental solid or semi-solid nodules 5-30 mm in patients age 35 or older; not screening, pure GGO, calcified nodules, more than five nodules, or specified acquisition and history exclusions.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

Exact FDA limitation boundary.

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

The FDA listing establishes the regulatory identity. It does not by itself establish local workflow fit, pricing, security, or performance in your environment.

FDA submission
K202300
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
CT/CTA
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA lung CT scope normalized to controlled CT bucket.

Anatomy
Chest/Lung
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

FDA pulmonary-nodule scope.

Clearance type
510(k)
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2021-03-05
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

Implementation

Questions for IT, informatics, and operations

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Integration
Standards-based DICOM/PACS integration was identified in the FDA submission materials; compatibility with a specific PACS, RIS, EHR, or orchestrator requires confirmation.
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Normalized from the prior exact-submission review. Confirm interface versions and local compatibility during technical evaluation.

Deployment and data flow
On-premise
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Deployment category preserved from the prior exact-submission review; hosting region, data flow, and current commercial configuration still require vendor confirmation.

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.

Supported acquisition environment

Scanner manufacturers: All

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

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

ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic, Optellum software, Optellum platform; FDA labeling remains controlling for clinical use, limitations, and performance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-09

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
Standalone LCP-CNN AUC was 0.867; MRMC study used 300 subjects, 12 readers, and 9 hospitals and reported mean reader AUC improvement of 6.85 points.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-15

Submission-reported study result.

Reported sensitivity
5%
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Values reported in the exact-submission materials. Consult the linked source for endpoint, threshold, population, and confidence interval before comparison.

Reported specificity
5%
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Values reported in the exact-submission materials. Consult the linked source for endpoint, threshold, population, and confidence interval before comparison.

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

Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic, Optellum Software, Optellum Platform regulatory performance study summary

  • DesignStand-alone performance and reader study (ACR AI Central category)
  • PopulationPopulation described in the exact-submission ACR model card
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionExact product version not reported; regulatory study summarized for FDA submission K202300
  • IndependenceIndependence not established

K202300

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

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

These are common procurement questions; unknown values remain visible until a source supports them.

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

No public price or quote for the exact K202300 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 K202300. 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

Buyer worksheet

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Open evaluation checklist

Research record

What has been checked

This audit distinguishes completed source review from fields that have not yet been researched.

Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-20Last searched
26Fields 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 K202300: Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic, Optellum software, Optellum platform

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2021-03-05 - 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. Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic, Optellum Software, Optellum Platform model card (K202300)

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

    Scope: intendedUsers, output, limitations, evidenceSummary, 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 K202300

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

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K202300 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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