K110573 · Ge Healthcare (Ge Medical Systems Scs) · LLZ · May 3, 2011 · Radiology
Device Facts
Record ID
K110573
Device Name
READY VIEW
Applicant
Ge Healthcare (Ge Medical Systems Scs)
Product Code
LLZ · Radiology
Decision Date
May 3, 2011
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 892.2050
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Software as a Medical Device
Indications for Use
READY View is an image analysis software that allows the user to process dynamic or functional volumetric data and to generate maps that display changes in image intensity over time, echo time. b-value (Diffusion imaging) and frequency (Spectroscopy). The combination of acquired images, reconstructed images, calculated parametric images, tissue segmentation, annotations and measurement performed by the clinician allows multi-parametric analysis and may provide clinically relevant information for diagnosis.
Device Story
READY View is post-processing software for MR functional data; inputs include time series, diffusion-weighted, diffusion tensor, variable echo, BOLD, and spectroscopy data sets. Software operates on Advantage Workstation (AW) or AW Server Gen 2; clinician-operated. Core function: analyzes pixel intensity changes over time, echo time, b-value, or frequency. Outputs include graphical plots of pixel values and functional maps displaying calculated parameters. Brain View option provides FiberTrak and Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) protocols. Clinicians use outputs for multi-parametric analysis, tissue segmentation, and measurements to aid diagnosis of neurological and oncological diseases. Benefits include fast, quantified analysis of complex MR data sets.
Clinical Evidence
No clinical data. Substantial equivalence supported by non-clinical testing including risk analysis, requirements reviews, design reviews, performance testing (verification), safety testing (verification), and simulated use testing (validation).
Technological Characteristics
Post-processing software application for MR functional data. Operates on Advantage Workstation/Server platforms. Features include graphical plotting of pixel values and functional map generation. Employs same algorithm technology as predicate FuncTool. Connectivity via workstation/server environment.
Indications for Use
Indicated for clinicians requiring post-processing analysis of MR-generated functional volumetric data (e.g., time series, diffusion-weighted, diffusion tensor, variable echo, BOLD, spectroscopy) for neurological, oncological, and other anatomical applications (e.g., brain, breast, prostate, liver).
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A medical image management and processing system is a device that provides one or more capabilities relating to the review and digital processing of medical images for the purposes of interpretation by a trained practitioner of disease detection, diagnosis, or patient management. The software components may provide advanced or complex image processing functions for image manipulation, enhancement, or quantification that are intended for use in the interpretation and analysis of medical images. Advanced image manipulation functions may include image segmentation, multimodality image registration, or 3D visualization. Complex quantitative functions may include semi-automated measurements or time-series measurements.
Special Controls
*Classification.* Class II (special controls; voluntary standards—Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Std., Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) Std., Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Test Pattern).
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# GE Healthcare 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
## 510(k) Summary
MAY - 3 2011
In accordance with 21 CFR 807.92 the following summary of information is provided: Date: February 25, 2011
- Submitter: GE Healthcare (GE Medical Systems SCS) Establishment Registration Number - 9611343 283, Rue de la Minière 78533 Buc, France
- Elizabeth Mathew Primary Contact Person: Regulatory Affairs Leader - MR GE Healthcare, (GE Medical Systems, LLC) Establishment Registration Number - 2183553 3200 N Grandview Blvd., Mail Stop: W-827 Waukesha, WI - 53188, USA Phone: (262) 521-6658 Fax: (262) 521-6439
- Secondary Contact Person: Glen Sabin Regulatory Affairs Director - MR GE Healthcare, (GE Medical Systems, LLC) Establishment Reaistration Number - 2183553 3200 N Grandview Blvd., Mail Stop: W-827 Waukesha, WI - 53188, USA Phone: (262) 521-6848 Fax: (262) 364-2785
- Device: Trade Name: READY View
- Common/Usual Name: READY View
Classification Names: 21 CFR 892.2050 Picture archiving and communication system
90 LLZ Product Code:
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GE Healthcare . 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
FuncTool Option for Advantage Windows (K960265) Predicate Device(s): Volume Viewer Plus (K041521)
Device Description:
READY View is a suite of applications developed to improve multiparametric exams by enabling the analysis of MR generated data sets containing multiple images for each scan location. The MR data sets may be any of the following:
- . A time series
- A diffusion weighted scan .
- A diffusion tensor scan .
- . A variable echo imaging
- A blood oxygen level dependent imaging .
- Spectroscopy (Single voxel and 2D or 3D CSI) ●
The READY View platform provides a combination of protocols, applications and tools that enables a fast, easy and quantified analysis of the multiple data sets.
Brain View is a post processing image analysis software package that provides advanced techniques to aid in the diganosis of neurological and oncological diseases. Brain View is an option with the READY View platform and offers two advanced protocols:
- . FiberTrak
- . Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL)
READY View along with Brain View option is available on the Advantage Workstation (AW) and Advantage Workstation Server Gen 2, for viewing and processing Magnetic Resonance images.
READY View is an image analysis software that allows the user to Intended Use: process dynamic or functional volumetric data and to generate maps that display changes in image intensity over time, echo time. b-value (Diffusion imaging) and frequency (Spectroscopy). The combination of acquired images, reconstructed images, calculated parametric images, tissue segmentation, annotations and measurement performed by the clinician allows multi-parametric analysis and may provide clinically relevant information for diagnosis.
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## GE Healthcare
510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
Technology:
READY View is a post-processing application processing MR functional data of the human body acquired from a MR Scanner. Taraeted anatomy includes but is not limited to Brain, Breast, Prostate, and Liver.
Functional data sets contain a series of sequentially ordered images for each scan location, where the interval between images can represent time, b-value, echo time, gradient orientation or ppm value (frequency) depending on the data set.
The pixel value in an area of interest at a given scan location may have a different value for each image. To analyze these changes in pixel values, READY View provides two tools:
- Graphs: the pixel values at a given pixel location are plotted . as a graph. The graphs can then be represented by the pixel value over the image number or the pixel value over time, bvalue, echo time, gradient orientation or ppm value.
- . Functional images: for each pixel location, the pixel values from the images are used to compute a characteristic parameter by means of a function. A functional map is then constructed by displaying the value of the parameter for each pixel location.
The READY View software employs the same algorithm technology as its predicate device FuncTool (K960265), Like FuncTool, READY View provides protocols that enable a fast, easy and quantified analysis of the multiple data sets.
Determination of Substantial Equivalence:
### Summary of Non-Clinical Tests:
The following quality assurance measures were applied to the development of READY View:
- Risk Analysis .
- Requirements Reviews .
- Design Reviews .
- . Performance testing (Verification)
- . Safety testing (Verification)
- . Simulated use testing (Validation)
### Summary of Clinical Tests:
The subject of this premarket submission, READY View, did not require clinical studies to support substantial equivalence.
GE Healthcare considers READY View to be as safe, as effective, and Conclusion: performance is substantially equivalent to the predicate devices.
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# DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Document Control Room - WO66-G609 Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
GE Healthcare (GE Medical Systems SCS) % Ms. Elizabeth Mathew Regulatory Affairs Leader GE Healthcare (GE Medial Systems, LLC) 3200 N. Grandview Blvd., Mail Stop: W-827 WAUKESHA WI 53188
MAY - 3 2011
Re: K110573
Trade/Device Name: READY View Regulation Number: 21 CFR 892.2050 Regulation Name: Picture archiving and communications system Regulatory Class: II Product Code: LLZ Dated: February 25, 2011 Received: March 1, 2011
### Dear Ms. Mathew:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in intestate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendmonts, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA), You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, inte not devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration.
If your device is classified (see above) into class II (Special Controls), it may be subject to such additional controls. Existing major regulations affecting your device can be found in Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Parts 800 to 895. In addition, FDA may publish further. announcements concerning your device in the Federal Register.
Please be advised that FDA's issuance of a substantial equivalence determination does not mean that FDA has made a determination that your device complies with other requirements of the Act or any Federal statutes and regulations administered by other Federal agencies. You must comply with all the Act's requirements, including, but not limited to: registration and listing (21 CFR Part 807); labeling (21 CFR Parts 801 and 809); medical device reporting (reporting of
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medical device-related adverse events) (21 CFR 803); and good manufacturing practice requirements as set forth in the quality systems (QS) regulation (21 CFR Part 820). This letter will allow you to begin marketing your device as described in your Section 510(k) premarket notification. The FDA finding of substantial equivalence of your device to a legally marketed predicate device results in a classification for your device to a legally market to proceed to the market.
If you desire specific advice for your device on our labeling regulation (21 CFR Parts 801 and 809), please contact the Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety at (30) 796. 5450. Also, please note the regulation entitled, "Misbranding by reference to premarket notification" (21 CFR Part 807.97). For questions regarding the reporting of adverse events under the MDR regulation (21 CFR Part 803), please go to
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/Reportals.go to
of Surveillance.and Riometrias/Safety/Reportalers/default.htm for the CDRH's Office of Surveillance and Biometrics/Division of Postmarket Surveillance.
You may obtain other general information on your responsibilities under the Act from the Division of Small Manufacturers, International on Consumer Assistance at its toll the (800) 638-2041 or (301) 796-7100 or at its Internet address http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/industry/support/index.html.
Sincerely Yours,
Mary S Patel
Mary S. Pastel, Sc.D. Director Division of Radiological Devices Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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## GE Healthcare 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
510(k) Number (if known): [INSERT 510(k) NUMBER IF KNOWN] READY View Device Name:
Indications for Use
READY View is an image analysis software that allows the user to process dynamic or functional volumetric data and to generate maps that display changes in image intensity over time, echo time, b-value (Diffusion imaging) and frequency (Spectroscopy). The combination of acquired images, reconstructed images, calculated parametric images, tissue seqmentation, annotations and measurement performed by the clinician allows multiparametric analysis and may provide clinically relevant information for diagnosis.
AND/OR Prescription Use X (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart D)
Over-The-Counter Use (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart C)
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Part 1 — Search, results, and everyday workflows 16 min
Part 2 — Embeddings: the galaxy map 3 min
1. Search: exact and fuzzy
Type a phrase like "coronary artery calcification" into the search box. You get two kinds of results. Exact results match the literal phrase — prefix searches work ("coronary artery calcificati") but suffix searches do not. Fuzzy results match on the meaning and intent of your phrase rather than the exact words, and are sorted by relevance score. Hover over the Exact or Fuzzy badge on any row to see exactly why it matched.
Use the checkboxes above the results to narrow: SaMD keeps only software-only devices, AI / ML keeps only devices with AI.
Exact vs. fuzzy search: what's the difference?
Exact matches on the literal phrase (prefix search works, suffix does not). Fuzzy matches on the meaning and intent of the phrase rather than the exact words. Hover over the badge on any row to see why it matched.
You search "coronary artery calcification" and want only software devices with AI. What two filters do you apply?
Narrow by SaMD (software-only devices), then narrow by AI/ML (devices with AI).
2. The results table
Scroll right in the results table. The intended use is extracted for you — no need to open the PDF. The device story gives a high-level snapshot of what the device does and how it's used. The AI Performance sub-table shows each output name, acceptance criteria, observed values, and development/test dataset descriptions — the same format Innolitics uses for regulatory strategy outputs, and the fastest high-level fingerprint of an AI device. It is AI-generated but has been very reliable in practice.
Where do you find a device's intended use without opening the PDF?
Scroll right in the search results table. The intended use column is extracted for you; no need to dig into the 510(k) summary PDF.
What does the AI Performance sub-table show, and why is it useful?
Output name, acceptance criteria, observed values, development dataset description, and test dataset description. It's the same format we use for regulatory strategy output and Fast 510(k) input, and the fastest high-level fingerprint of an AI device. AI-generated but reliable in practice.
3. Judging fuzzy relevance
Fuzzy results trail off in relevance as you scroll. Use three signals to decide how far down to go: the fuzzy badge explanations, the intended use column, and whether your target output (e.g., Cobb angle) still appears in the AI Performance sub-table. Once it stops appearing, you're past the relevant zone. A top hit with a low score (~0.4) and a stretched explanation is a hint the closest predicates are far away — the project may be headed for De Novo. Note the fuzzy search is a pattern match: it doesn't handle negation ("not") well, and hardware devices can appear — filter by SaMD/AI ML to cut them.
How do you judge how far down fuzzy search results to go?
Use the relevancy signals: the fuzzy badge explanations, the intended use column, and whether the target output (e.g., Cobb angle) still appears in the AI Performance sub-table. Once it stops appearing, results are trailing off in relevancy.
4. Device detail page: chat and citations
Click a device name to open its detail page: device facts on the left, a chat window on the right. Ask something like "Describe the training data". The answer carries little citation bubbles — click one to jump to the highlighted passage in the source PDF, so you can verify every AI answer against the document. There's also a Download PDF button for sharing.
How do you verify an AI chat answer on the device detail page?
Click the citation bubbles to jump to the relevant highlight in the source document.
Reading rule for every project: how many summaries do you read in full?
At least the three most relevant 510(k) or De Novo summaries, in full. After that, use targeted chat questions to confirm your memory quickly. The tool supports this professional habit — it doesn't replace it.
5. Side-by-side comparison
Select multiple rows in the results table (aim for under ~10), then open the PDF Viewer tab. Ask one question — it goes to all selected devices in parallel, each with citations. This is the fastest way to compare and contrast devices: training data, PCCP scope, how they handled adding new scanners, and so on.
What does the side-by-side PDF viewer mode do?
Select multiple devices, open the PDF viewer tab, and ask one question (e.g., "Describe the training data"). It queries all selected devices simultaneously with citations, so you can compare and contrast quickly.
6. Collections
With rows selected, go to the Collections tab and create a labeled collection (e.g., "Cobb Angle Project"). Reload that selection any time — before a client call, pull up the collection and ask questions across all of its devices at once.
How do you save a set of selected devices for later use?
Select the rows, go to the Collections tab, and create a labeled collection (e.g., "Cobb Angle Project"). You can reload the selection anytime and carry it into the PDF viewer and other tabs that support selections.
7. Product codes and the regulations tree
Click a product code in the results to jump to it in the regulations tree — identification text, sibling product codes, and devices you can open in a PDF viewer on the right. Click a regulation number to see its identification, special controls, and related product codes. You can also search by product code or regulation number at the top of the tree. Always read the special controls if any exist for your device — it broadens your search and sharpens pre-kickoff research.
What can you do from the regulations tree view?
Browse product codes and regulation numbers, read the identification text and special controls, browse sibling product codes, open device PDFs on the right, and search by product code or regulation number at the top of the tree.
8. Chart view
Click Show Chart and segment by regulation number (or product code) to see which regulations dominate your result set. Clicking a regulation takes you into the regulations tree. Great for spotting that most matches are, say, hardware laparoscopic devices — a cue to go back and filter.
How do you see which regulations dominate a search result set?
Click "Show Chart" and segment by Regulation Number. Clicking a regulation takes you to the regulations tree.
9. The predicate graph
Open the Predicates tab for a family-tree view of predicate relationships. Click a node to trace its parents and children; selections from search carry over pre-selected. Commonly predicated devices are worth reading — a lot of people predicated them for a reason. The visual lineage is also handy on client calls, e.g. to show how a predicate family evolved and justify why your predicate still holds.
In the predicate graph, why are commonly predicated devices worth reading?
A lot of people predicated them for a reason. Clicking a node traces parents and children, and selections from search carry over pre-selected.
10. Embeddings: the galaxy map
The Embeddings tab plots every matching document in a 2-D "galaxy map" where semantically similar devices cluster together. Hover or click clusters to explore, and let AI label the clusters for you. Embeddings beat product codes for grouping: two devices can carry different product codes (LLZ vs. QIH) yet do the same thing — the embedding captures the meaning of the intended use and device story. This is also exactly how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) works under the hood, and it makes a great visual on client calls.
Try it yourself
Head to the search page and work through a few of these AI/ML fuzzy searches to build intuition: perivascular fat on CT · aortic valve calcification opportunistic screening on noncontrast CT · breast cancer prediction on digital pathology slides · autism detection · gestational age prediction · a hearing aid that can also detect a pulse · foundation model based analysis of ECG · large language models · penetration test. Watch how the relevance scores, intended use, and AI Performance tables tell you when results stop being meaningful.