Testing, training, assurance. Improving medical imaging examination

What we do

PERFORMS Assessment provides a quality assurance framework through online assessment testing and training for healthcare professionals.

For over 35 years, we have helped to improve image interpretation expertise for radiologists and other healthcare professionals, to ensure diagnostic precision. Our endorsed certification reduces the risk of litigation and complies with relevant professional standards, providing appropriate Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits.

We help to improve the cancer detection rate and overall diagnostic performance in screening programmes, to enhance patient satisfaction and reduce the burden of disease in the population.

As with human clinicians, quality assurance for Artificial Intelligence (Al) is crucial. Al must perform consistently at a high level for successful uptake. Our solution helps to improve reliability, trustworthiness, accountability, safety and governance.

Meticulously created by the leading clinical experts in their fields.

PERFORMS is continually evolving to keep up-to-date with current medical imaging technologies, optimise user experience and screening programme requirements.

Cutting-edge technology is applied to understand behavioural patterns to help improve reader performance, including cancer detection and recall rates.

Solutions

Our partners

We work with some of the largest healthcare organisations, charitable institutions and companies to deliver high quality outputs and reliable results.

Supported by the leading experts

"The use of external quality assessment schemes like PERFORMS can provide a model for regularly assessing the performance of AI in a way similar to the monitoring of human readers."

"PERFECTS uses tried and tested statistical techniques, to ensure a robust and reliable measure of diagnostic performance in lung cancer screening- the first such quality assurance system in the world."

"Our AI screening strategy depends on radiologists for final recall decisions, highlighting the need to monitor their performance. The MASAI trial warns of potential overreliance on AI, which could lead to harmful automation bias. Monitoring through the PERFORMS scheme is recommended."

"PERFORMS has proven a very robust quality control mechanism that provides radiologists with a benchmark and, therefore, a very welcome sense of security in breast cancer screening. "

"An external accredited national quality assurance scheme like PERFORMS Lung (also known as PERFECTS in the UK) offers welcome assurance to the public that those reading lung CT scans receive regular appraisals, feedback, and training to maintain high standards in early lung cancer diagnosis."

"IMPROVE has been used by the EUSOBI young club group to help educate the future generation of breast radiologists.”

"PERFORMS is crucial to help with the training required for tomosynthesis reading. This work has played a critical role in the PROSPECTS tomosynthesis screening trial."

"PERFORMS provides a unique and very valuable opportunity to evaluate AI on challenging standardised test sets against large cohorts of specialist imaging readers for reliable performance benchmarking."

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The evidence speaks for itself

PERFORMS assessment is the only screening programme based external quality assurance (EQA) scheme, supported by a large volume of high impact, peer-reviewed journal publications.

Evidence that speaks
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