NeoSoft’s CAKE product is a post-processing, productivity software package designed to assist radiologists in the analysis of dynamic breast MR images. The software provides image display, supplemental information and visual enhancement of time/intensity changes extracted from MR temporal datasets. Single or multi-slice datasets, using standard acquisition protocols, are used for input.The results may be displayed as either a grayscale enhancement or a color overlay on the selected image. CAKE may perform additional functions to aid in the analysis and viewing of dynamic studies including registration of serial MR acquisitions, labeling of tissue types based upon user specified enhancement characteristics, visualization and quantification of lesion morphology in 3D, segmentation of tissues, multi-planar reformats, maximum intensity projections, image averaging, and subtractions.When interpreted by a skilled physician, this device provides information that may be useful in screening and diagnosis. Patient management decisions should not be made based solely on the results of CAKE analysis.
An individual software program or group of programs, routines or algorithms that add specific image processing and/or analysis capabilities to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system configuration. A basic set of applications programs and routines are included with such computer-controlled imaging systems and they can be upgraded to correct programming errors or to add new system capabilities. Some applications software programs or program packages must be combined with specific hardware or firmware configurations in order to function as intended. Applications program packages are typically identified by a proprietary name and "version" or "upgrade" number.