K172346 · Eos Imaging · LLZ · Jun 19, 2018 · Radiology
Device Facts
Record ID
K172346
Device Name
sterEOS Workstation
Applicant
Eos Imaging
Product Code
LLZ · Radiology
Decision Date
Jun 19, 2018
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 892.2050
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Software as a Medical Device, Pediatric
AI Performance
Output
Algorithm
Acceptance
Observed
Dev DS
Dev Readers
Test DS
Test Readers
3D spine modeling
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175 patients (91 normal patients, 47 patients with moderate idiopathic scoliosis, 37 patients with severe idiopathic scoliosis) and dry isolated vertebrae data
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3D lower limb alignment measurement
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Indications for Use
The sterEOS Workstation is intended for use in the fields of musculoskeletal radiology and orthopedics in both pediatric and adult populations as a general device for acceptance, transfer, display, storage, and digital processing of 2D X-ray images of the musculoskeletal system including interactive 2D measurement tools. When using 2D X-ray images obtained with the EOS Imaging EOS System, the sterEOS Workstation provides interactive 3D measurement tools: - To aid in the analysis of scoliosis and related disorders and deformities of the spine in adult patients as well as pediatric patients. The 3D measurement tools interactive analysis based either on identification of anatomical landmarks for postural assessment, or on a model of bone structures derived from an a priori image data set from 175 patients (91 normal patients, 47 patients with moderate idiopathic scoliosis and 37 patients with severe idiopathic scoliosis), and dry isolated vertebrae data for spine model of bone structures is not intended for use to assess individual vertebral abnormalities and is indicated only for patients 7 years and older. For postural assessment, a set of comparative tools is provided allowing the comparison of performed measurements to reference values for patients over 18 years old. - To aid in the analysis of lower limbs alignment and related disorders and deformities based on angle and length measurements. The 3D measurement tools include interactive analysis based either on identification of lower limb alignment landmarks or as for the spine, on a model of bone structures derived from an a priori image data set. The model of bone structures is not intended for use to assess individual bone abnormalities. The 3D package including model-based measurements and torsion angles is indicated only for patients 15 years or older. Only the 2D/3D ruler is indicated for measurements in patients younger than 15 years old.
Device Story
Workstation for musculoskeletal radiology/orthopedics; accepts, transfers, displays, stores, and processes 2D X-ray images from EOS Imaging EOS System. Provides interactive 2D/3D measurement tools for spine and lower limb deformities. Operates via clinician interaction; uses a priori bone structure models (derived from 175-patient dataset and dry vertebrae) to assist in 3D reconstruction and landmark identification. Outputs include measurements, postural assessments, and patient reports. Assists clinicians in analyzing scoliosis, spinal disorders, and lower limb alignment. Benefits include improved visualization and quantification of skeletal deformities to support clinical decision-making.
Clinical Evidence
No clinical data. Evidence consists of functional testing and internal evaluation by experienced radiographers. Functional evaluation verified the ability to perform 3D modeling and obtain adjusted outlines for spines with extra/missing vertebrae or spondylolisthesis. Software verification and validation performed at unit and system levels to ensure compliance with specifications and non-regression.
Technological Characteristics
Windows 7 OS; off-the-shelf hardware; DICOM 3.0 support. Software uses a priori bone structure models for 3D reconstruction. 64-bit architecture; C++ runtime environment. No specific energy source or sterilization method applicable as it is a software workstation.
Indications for Use
Indicated for pediatric and adult patients requiring musculoskeletal radiology/orthopedic analysis. Spine 3D modeling: patients >= 7 years; contraindicated for severe congenital vertebral deformities (e.g., hemivertebrae, spina bifida). Lower limb 3D package: patients >= 15 years. 2D/3D ruler: all ages.
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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June 19th, 2018
EOS imaging % Mathias Breuil Regulatory Affairs Manager 10 rue Mercoeur Paris, 75011 FRANCE
Re: K172346
Trade/Device Name: sterEOS Workstation Regulation Number: 21 CFR 892.2050 Regulation Name: Picture Archiving And Communications System Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: LLZ Dated: June 4, 2018 Received: June 6, 2018
Dear Mathias Breuil:
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 interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, 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. Iisting of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Sincerely,
Jeff Bolger
for Robert A. Ochs, Ph.D. Director Division of Radiological Health Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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#### DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Druq Administration Indications for Use
Form Approved: OMB No. 0910-0120 Expiration Date: January 31, 2017 See PRA Statement on last page
510(k) Number (if known)
K172346
Device Name sterEOS Workstation
#### Indications for Use (Describe)
The sterEOS Workstation is intended for use in the fields of musculoskeletal radiology and orthopediativ and adult populations as a general device for acceptance, transfer, display, storage, and digital processing of 2D X-ray images of the musculoskeletal system including interactive 2D measurement tools.
When using 2D X-ray images obtained with the EOS Imaging EOS System, the sterEOS Workstative 3D measurement tools:
- · To aid in the analysis of scoliosis and related disorders and deformities of the spine in adult patients. The 3D measurement tools include interactive analysis based either on anatomical landmarks for postural assessment, or on a model of bone structures derived from an a priori image data set from 175 patients, 47 patients with moderate idiopathic scoliosis with severe idiopathic scoliosis), and dry isolated vertebrae data for spine modeling. The model of bone structures is not intended for use to assess individual vertebral abnormalities and is indicated only for patients 7 years and older. For postural assessment, a set of comparative tools is provided allowing the comparison of performed measurements to reference values for patients over 18 years old.
- · To aid in the analysis of lower limbs alignment and related disorders and deformities based on angle and length measurements. The 3D measurement tools include interactive analysis based either on identification of lower limb alignment landmarks or as for the spine, on a model of bone structures derived from an a priori image data set. The model of bone structures is not intended for use to assess individual bone abnormalities. The 3D package including model-based measurements and torsion andes is indicated only for patients 15 years or older. Only the 2D/3D ruler is indicated for measurements in patients younger than 15 years old.
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#### 510(k) SUMMARY EOS imaging's sterEOS Workstation
| EOS imaging<br>10 rue Mercoeur<br>75011 PARIS<br>FRANCE | |
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| Phone: | + 33 1 55 25 60 60 |
| Facsimile: | + 33 1 55 25 60 61 |
| Contact Person: | Mathias Breuil, Regulatory Affairs Manager |
| Date Prepared: | July 31, 2017 |
| Name of Device: | sterEOS Workstation |
| Common or Usual Name: | Image processing radiological system |
| Classification Name: | 21 C.F.R. 892.2050; Picture archiving and communications system |
| Regulatory Class: | II |
| Product Code: | LLZ - system, image processing, radiological |
#### Predicate Devices
| 510(k) number: | K160914 |
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| Clearance Date: | April 22, 2016 |
| Device Name: | sterEOS Workstation |
| Classification Name: | 21 CFR 892.2050, Picture archiving and communications system |
| Regulatory Class: | II |
| Product Code: | LLZ- system, image processing, radiological |
#### Device Description
The sterEOS Workstation is a general system for acceptance, transfer, display, storage, and digital processing of 2D X-ray images of the musculoskeletal system, including interactive 2D measurement tools.
When used with 2D X-ray images obtained with the EOS imaging's EOS System (K152788), the sterEOS Workstation provides interactive 3D measurement tools to aid in the analysis of skeletal deformities in spine and lower limbs.
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### Intended Use/Indications for Use
The sterEOS Workstation is intended for use in the fields of musculoskeletal radiology and orthopedics in both pediatric and adult populations as a general device for acceptance, transfer, display, storage, and digital processing of 2D X-ray images of the musculoskeletal system including interactive 2D measurement tools.
When using 2D X-ray images obtained with the EOS Imaging EOS System, the sterEOS Workstation provides interactive 3D measurement tools:
- · To aid in the analysis of scoliosis and related disorders and deformities of the spine in adult patients as well as pediatric patients. The 3D measurement tools interactive analysis based either on identification of anatomical landmarks for postural assessment, or on a model of bone structures derived from an a priori image data set from 175 patients (91 normal patients, 47 patients with moderate idiopathic scoliosis and 37 patients with severe idiopathic scoliosis), and dry isolated vertebrae data for spine model of bone structures is not intended for use to assess individual vertebral abnormalities and is indicated only for patients 7 years and older. For postural assessment, a set of comparative tools is provided allowing the comparison of performed measurements to reference values for patients over 18 years old.
- · To aid in the analysis of lower limbs alignment and related disorders and deformities based on angle and length measurements. The 3D measurement tools include interactive analysis based either on identification of lower limb alignment landmarks or as for the spine, on a model of bone structures derived from an a priori image data set. The model of bone structures is not intended for use to assess individual bone abnormalities. The 3D package including model-based measurements and torsion angles is indicated only for patients 15 years or older. Only the 2D/3D ruler is indicated for measurements in patients younger than 15 years old.
### Summary of Technological Characteristics
The technological characteristics of the modified sterEOS Workstation are essentially identical to the cleared sterEOS Workstation (K160914). Like the cleared predicate, the subject device is based on the Windows 7 operating system, runs on off-the-shelf hardware, supports DICOM 3.0 formatted images, and has a user interface that follows typical clinical workflow patterns to process, review, and analyze digital images.
The subject device incorporates a revision of contra-indications related to spine modeling which has been modified as follows:
- . Previous contra-indication (cleared sterEOS):
- The 3D spine modeling software may not be used in the following cases:
- spinal columns with supernumerary vertebrae (one extra or one fewer thoracic or lumbar vertebra),
- vertebrae with severe congenital deformities (e.g. hemivertebrae, spina bifida, etc.),
- spondylolisthesis.
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- Revised contra-indication (modified sterEOS):
The 3D spine modeling software does not allow modeling of vertebrae with severe congenital deformities (e.g. hemivertebrae, spina bifida, etc.). The modeling of a spine including vertebrae with congenital deformities may be performed by leaving out the vertebrae with the severe congenital deformity.
The modified sterEOS also includes several minor software modifications:
- Improvement of patient report creation; -
- Improvement of sterEOS 3D module launching time by replacement of Matlab runtime executable by C++ runtime executable and change of compilation process from 32 bits to 64 bits;
- -Improvement of sterEOS export/import capabilities;
- -Various bug corrections.
Minor hardware modifications were also made following obsolescence.
#### Performance Data
Revision of contraindications has been assessed through functional testing of the spine 3D modeling workflows for the no longer contraindicated types of spine with extra vertebra, spine with missing vertebra, and spine with spondylolisthesis.
In addition, a functional evaluation study conducted by internal experienced radiographers from EOS imaging has been conducted to verify the ease to perform a 3D modeling and to obtain an adjusted outline of the final 3D model that matches the vertebrae of spines with extra or missing vertebrae and spines with spondylolisthesis. This functional evaluation study did not intend to provide any information related to reproducibility or reliability of 3D spine modeling and related clinical parameters.
Results showed that the revised contra-indications do not raise different safety or effectiveness concerns as with the cleared sterEOS.
Software modifications have been verified at the unit level. After integration, system software verification and validation testing were performed to ensure compliance with specifications, performance and non-regression.
Additional performance and functional testing has confirmed the equivalent performance of the modified sterEOS Workstation compared to the predicate sterEOS.
#### Conclusions
The modified sterEOS Workstation is as safe and effective as the cleared sterEOS Workstation (K160914). The device has the same intended uses and similar indications, technological characteristics, and principles of operation as its predicate device. In addition, the minor technological differences between the device and its predicate devices raise no new issues of safety or effectiveness. Performance data demonstrate that the device is as safe and effective as the company's cleared sterEOS Workstation (K160914) and, thus, is substantially equivalent.
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