FDA-cleared profile

SIS Software

Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.

Authorized purpose: SIS Software fuses brain MRI with postoperative CT to visualize and localize the subthalamic nucleus for stereotactic neurosurgical planning.

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: SIS Software fuses brain MRI with postoperative CT to visualize and localize the subthalamic nucleus for stereotactic neurosurgical planning.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: SIS Software fuses brain MRI with postoperative CT to visualize and localize the subthalamic nucleus for stereotactic neurosurgical planning.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: The FDA package reports development and pivotal validation involving 34 subjects and 68 STNs. Ninety percent of center-of-mass results were below 1.9 mm and surface results below 0.8 mm; 95% of center-of-mass results were at or below 2 mm, 100% of surface results were at or below 2 mm, and Dice was 0.64.

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
SIS Software fuses brain MRI with postoperative CT to visualize and localize the subthalamic nucleus for stereotactic neurosurgical planning.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

Clinical-use display mirrors the exact FDA-supported purpose reconciled from the decision-summary packet.

Intended users
Medical professionals, including but not limited to surgeons, neurologists and radiologists.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
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The exact indication names medical professionals and these examples but does not establish the dossier's qualified or trained staff wording.

Care setting and population
Hospital neuroimaging, stroke, neurosurgical, or stereotactic-planning workflows.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Brain-image registration, segmentation, quantification, visualization, or procedure-planning support.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
The company's software methodology relies on a reference database of high-resolution brain images (7T MRI) and standard clinical brain images (1.5T or 3T MRI).
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

The packet specifies 7T and 1.5T or 3T MRI inputs and does not establish postoperative CT input for K162830.

Output and human action
SIS Software provides a patient-specific, 3D anatomical model of the patient's own brain structures that supplements other clinical information to facilitate visualization in neurosurgical procedures.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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The packet establishes the patient-specific 3D brain model and visualization output but does not establish measurements or maps.

Limitations
The SIS Software supplements the information available through standard clinical methods, providing additional, adjunctive information to surgeons, neurologists and radiologists for use in visualization and planning stereotactic surgical procedures.
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This is the packet's adjunctive-use boundary and does not add unsupported independent-confirmation language.

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
K162830
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
MRI
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.

Anatomy
Brain
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.

Clearance type
510(k)
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Decision date
2017-02-14
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  • Exact FDA submission
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

Questions for IT, informatics, and operations

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Integration
DICOM import and output to PACS, workstations, or surgical systems; validate series selection, orientation, registration, measurements, routing, latency, and failure handling.
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Deployment and data flow
Software workstation, server, virtual appliance, or connected clinical application using the cleared release.
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Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-03

Public materials reviewed for this exact release do not establish the complete security posture. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, remote-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.

Training and support
Only qualified radiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and trained imaging or surgical staff should operate or interpret the product. Local onboarding should cover the exact release, supported population, limitations, failure examples, escalation, downtime, and competency documentation.
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Monitoring and change control
Monitor by exact hardware, software, model, and algorithm version; patient population; anatomy; protocol; operator; input quality; output edits or overrides; failed studies; repeat acquisition or rework; downstream impact; downtime; incidents; recalls; and updates. Track these product-specific limits: Outputs are adjunctive and require review against source images and clinical context; modality, protocol, registration, lesion, anatomy, and longitudinal-comparison limits apply.
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Release and scope verification

Map the installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, outputs, and enabled AI functions to K162830 before acceptance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.

Interoperability acceptance

DICOM import and output to PACS, workstations, or surgical systems; validate series selection, orientation, registration, measurements, routing, latency, and failure handling.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally. The capability is derived from the exact FDA workflow and still requires local acceptance testing.

Clinical acceptance

Use a signed local test set for the supported population and workflow. Include common and difficult cases, exclusions, acquisition variation, failed or low-quality inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects. Outputs are adjunctive and require review against source images and clinical context; modality, protocol, registration, lesion, anatomy, and longitudinal-comparison limits apply.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Define stop-use, escalation, rollback, and revalidation triggers before production use.

Economic evaluation

Model capital and recurring cost against net staff time after review, throughput, repeat imaging or rework, room time, consumables, infrastructure, training, service, downtime, upgrade, and replacement costs.

product family · checked 2026-09-03

No exact-product price was found in the reviewed public material; vendor productivity claims are scenario inputs, not guaranteed local savings.

Lifecycle monitoring

Monitor by exact hardware, software, model, and algorithm version; patient population; anatomy; protocol; operator; input quality; output edits or overrides; failed studies; repeat acquisition or rework; downstream impact; downtime; incidents; recalls; and updates. Track these product-specific limits: Outputs are adjunctive and require review against source images and clinical context; modality, protocol, registration, lesion, anatomy, and longitudinal-comparison limits apply.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes. The capability is derived from the exact FDA workflow and still requires local acceptance testing.

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
The FDA package reports development and pivotal validation involving 34 subjects and 68 STNs. Ninety percent of center-of-mass results were below 1.9 mm and surface results below 0.8 mm; 95% of center-of-mass results were at or below 2 mm, 100% of surface results were at or below 2 mm, and Dice was 0.64.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Reported sensitivity
Not applicable
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Sensitivity is not the primary endpoint for this system, reconstruction, segmentation, guidance, or quantitative function. Use the task-specific evidence below.

Reported specificity
Not applicable
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  • Not applicable
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Specificity is not the primary endpoint for this system, reconstruction, segmentation, guidance, or quantitative function. Use the task-specific evidence below.

STN center-of-mass results at or below 2 mm

95 %

  • EndpointPivotal STN localization validation
  • PopulationSIS Software
  • Tested versionSIS Software

STN surface results at or below 2 mm

100 %

  • EndpointPivotal STN localization validation
  • PopulationSIS Software
  • Tested versionSIS Software

STN Dice

0.64 coefficient

  • EndpointSTN segmentation overlap
  • PopulationSIS Software
  • Tested versionSIS Software

Validated STNs

68 STNs

  • EndpointPivotal STN localization validation
  • PopulationSIS Software
  • Tested versionSIS Software

K162830 FDA performance package for SIS Software

  • DesignPivotal STN registration and localization validation with phantom co-registration testing
  • Population34 subjects and 68 STNs using brain MRI and postoperative CT
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionSIS Software
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K162830

Manufacturer evidence submitted for FDA clearance or approval; local clinical, technical, and workflow acceptance remains necessary.

2 unlinked candidate evidence records are retained for source review and excluded from this evidence display.

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
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-03

No public list price for the exact cleared configuration was found. Obtain a written quote separating hardware or license basis, implementation, interfaces, infrastructure, training, service, upgrades, renewal, consumables, and exit costs.

Reimbursement and coding
No separate named-product Medicare payment was identified in the reviewed CMS coverage material. Evaluate the product within the applicable imaging, procedural, or surgical service line and verify payer, site-of-service, and coding assumptions independently.
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  • Not applicable
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No product-specific code

No separate named-product payment identified in reviewed public material

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United States

Build a local total-cost and value model; do not infer reimbursement from FDA clearance or approval.

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 2026-09-02 openFDA device-recall snapshot contained no record matched to K162830 by exact submission identifier. This does not exclude product-family, later, or adverse-event information.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Exact-identifier review does not prove absence of all product-family safety signals.

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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
28Fields reviewed
13Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
2Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

The refreshed discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 2 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Discovery metadata alone does not establish exact tested-product, version, population, and endpoint applicability, so all candidates remain quarantined and none was promoted. The current discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 2 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, fda decision material, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, reimbursement policy, fda device recall, fda decision summary packet, literature index, trial registry, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA K162830: SIS Software

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2017-02-14 - Accessed 2026-09-19

    Scope: modality, anatomy, evidenceSummary, purpose, intendedUsers, input, output, limitations, clinicalUse

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

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

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. PubMed biomedical literature index

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

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  4. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

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

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  5. Medicare Coverage Database

    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: coverage, codingContext

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

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

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  7. Accuracy Evaluation for SIS Software-based Visualization of Anatomical Brain Structures

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-03

    Scope: evidenceStudies, productFamilyContext, evidenceDiscovery

  8. Accuracy Evaluation of SIS Software-based Visualization of New Anatomical Brain Structure

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-03

    Scope: evidenceStudies, productFamilyContext, evidenceDiscovery

Research history

  1. K162830 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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