FDA-cleared profile

Critical Care Suite with Enteric Tube Positioning AI Algorithm

Ge Medical Systems, LLC

Analyze frontal chest and abdominal X-ray images to detect and localize a nasally or orally inserted enteric tube, its tip and side port if present, and the diaphragm and airways for radiologist review.

Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Analyze frontal chest and abdominal X-ray images to detect and localize a nasally or orally inserted enteric tube, its tip and side port if present, and the diaphragm and airways for radiologist review.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Intended users
Licensed qualified healthcare professionals trained to independently place or assess enteric tubes inserted nasally or orally, and radiologists
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Care setting and population
Critical-care/acute-care imaging workflow, including mobile X-ray use for patients with limited mobility; indicated for adult and pediatric patients
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Detection/localization and immediate visualization/notification support; no quantification is provided
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Required input
Frontal chest and abdominal X-ray images from digital X-ray systems, including studies of patients with a nasally or orally inserted enteric tube; the evaluation included adult and pediatric images, including babygrams.
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Output and human action
On-screen overlays for the enteric tube, tube tip, side port if present, diaphragm, and airways; a secondary DICOM annotated image and DICOM tag identifying whether an enteric tube was detected. The comparison table reports no quantification output.
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Limitations
Not for use in lieu of full patient evaluation or as the sole basis to make or confirm a diagnosis, and not a replacement for qualified-HCP review of the X-ray image. Side-port output is conditional on a side port being present.
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Regulatory identity

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FDA submission
K253502
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Modality
X-ray/Radiography
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Anatomy
Chest/lung and abdomen/stomach; enteric tube, tube tip and side port, diaphragm, and airways including carina and left/right bronchi
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Clearance type
510(k)
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Decision date
2026-04-14
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

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Integration
The software module can be deployed on PACS, on-premise, on-cloud, or digital projection radiographic systems; AMX Navigate mobile X-ray was the initial deployment platform. Results are sent as a secondary DICOM image and DICOM tag to a PACS, image-storage system, X-ray system, or other DICOM destination.
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Deployment and data flow
Vendor documentation pending
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The reviewed sources do not establish the current exact-release hosting topology, data flow, region, tenancy, or disaster-recovery configuration.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
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Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
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Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
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Current drift, quality, uptime, alert, escalation, and incident-response commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Input or output interoperability

DICOM is explicitly referenced in the described input, output, or workflow.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

The model card does not establish every supported DICOM object, transfer method, or local interface.

ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for Critical Care Suite with Enteric Tube Positioning AI Algorithm; FDA labeling remains controlling for clinical use, limitations, and performance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-08

Evidence

Performance evidence

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Evidence summary
The FDA clinical ground-truth study used 954 independent images from five sites across North America and the United Kingdom, spanning neonates to patients over 65 years, both chest and abdominal images, multiple tube types, varied image quality, and at least eight vendors. Five expert annotators performed two reads with arbitration. The packet reports enteric-tube detection sensitivity 0.992 (0.982, 0.997) and specificity 0.975 (0.947, 0.991); tube-tip sensitivity 0.957 (0.935, 0.973) and specificity 0.941 (0.901, 0.968); side-port sensitivity 0.931 (0.904, 0.952) and specificity 0.859 (0.801, 0.905); tube Dice 0.911 (0.912, 0.921), airway Dice 0.741 (0.730, 0.753), diaphragm Dice 0.821 (0.808, 0.834), and mean localization errors of 1.789 mm for the tube tip and 2.575 mm for the side port.
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Reported sensitivity
enteric tube detection: 99.2% (95% CI: 98.2%, 99.7%) ; tube tip detection: 95.7% (95% CI: 93.5%, 97.3%); side port detection: 93.1% (95% CI: 90.4%, 95.2%)
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Model sensitivity reported by ACR AI Central. Review endpoint, threshold, study population, and tested version before comparison.

Reported specificity
enteric tube detection: 97.5% (95% CI: 94.7%, 99.1%) ; tube tip detection: 94.1% (95% CI: 90.1%, 96.8%); side port detection: 85.9% (95% CI: 80.1%, 90.5%)
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Model specificity reported by ACR AI Central. Review endpoint, threshold, study population, and tested version before comparison.

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

Critical Care Suite with Enteric Tube Positioning AI Algorithm regulatory performance study summary

  • DesignStand-Alone Performance
  • PopulationAdult and Pediatric
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionExact product version not reported; regulatory study summarized for FDA submission K253502
  • Samplen=954
  • Sites5
  • IndependenceIndependence not established

K253502

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Costs and setup

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
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No public price or quote for the exact K253502 configuration was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
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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 K253502. 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.
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Research record

What has been checked

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Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-08Last searched
24Fields reviewed
9Source classes checked
0Awaiting review PubMed leads
0Awaiting review trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Exact-submission ACR model-card fields were normalized under the current provenance rules; vendor and independent-study confirmation remain distinct. Exact FDA scope controls clinical claims. ACR provides bounded exact-submission catalog context. Candidate literature metadata remains a discovery queue until full-text identity, endpoint, population, and version review is completed. Automated exact-name discovery found 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Candidates require human product and version matching; zero candidates is not evidence that no studies exist. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads remain unpublished until a human confirms the exact product and tested version.

Source classes: fda ai list, acr ai central product, fda decision summary, fda device recall, 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 K253502: Critical Care Suite with Enteric Tube Positioning AI Algorithm

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2026-04-14 - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: identity, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, workflow, evidence, implementation

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

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

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. Critical Care Suite with Enteric Tube Positioning AI Algorithm model card (K253502)

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

    Scope: intendedUsers, careSetting, output, limitations, reportedSensitivity, reportedSpecificity, evidenceSummary, integration, 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 K253502

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K253502 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

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