Samsung Medison Unveils the R20 Ultrasound System at RSNA 2025, Marking a Major Leap in Imaging Accuracy, AI Integration, and Clinical Ergonomics
Samsung Medison, the global medical equipment division of Samsung Electronics and a recognized innovator in diagnostic imaging solutions, is preparing to showcase its newest ultrasound platform—the Samsung R20 Ultrasound System—at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. RSNA remains one of the world’s largest and most influential gatherings for radiology and medical imaging professionals, serving as an international stage for groundbreaking medical technologies. The debut of the R20 marks an important milestone for Samsung Medison, reinforcing the company’s strengthened commitment to advancing precision diagnostics and improving clinical workflows through meaningful innovation.
Addressing Today’s Clinical Challenges
Ultrasound imaging has long been valued in hospitals and clinics as a versatile, real-time, radiation-free diagnostic tool. However, the landscape of modern healthcare has changed rapidly in recent years. Rising obesity levels, chronic health conditions—including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver disease and musculoskeletal disorders—and increasingly complex patient cases have significantly magnified clinical challenges. These evolving patient demographics often make ultrasound imaging more technically demanding, requiring deeper penetration, higher resolution and more intelligent guidance capabilities to achieve consistent diagnostic outcomes.
Simultaneously, healthcare systems worldwide are confronting another urgent issue: a shortage of experienced sonographers and technologists, coupled with alarming rates of work-related musculoskeletal strain. Many ultrasound operators report persistent pain in the neck, shoulders and arms as a result of repetitive manual positioning during lengthy scanning sessions. Such injuries not only affect clinician well-being, but also contribute to workforce turnover and reduced patient throughput. Within this context, ergonomic design and workflow automation have become critical considerations in ultrasound innovation.
Samsung Medison designed the R20 Ultrasound System specifically to respond to these clinical realities. Built as a next-generation platform that unifies diagnostic performance, artificial intelligence and ergonomic engineering, the R20 supports clinicians in delivering accurate imaging results while protecting long-term operator health.
Advanced Imaging for More Confident Diagnosis
At the core of the R20 is Samsung’s Advanced Imaging Engine, a platform that combines enhanced hardware performance with next-generation beamforming and sophisticated software processing. This integration enables exceptional image clarity, reduces noise and improves contrast resolution—even in challenging scanning environments or in patients with high body mass. Such technical improvements allow clinicians to visualize anatomical structures with greater precision and to better detect subtle abnormalities earlier in the diagnostic pathway.
The R20 incorporates more than a dozen AI-powered clinical and workflow tools designed to support real-time image interpretation, automated measurements and consistency across operators. These intelligent features include automated organ boundary detection, measurement suggestions, exam protocol guidance and time-saving workflow shortcuts that reduce repetitive manual steps traditionally required during a scan. With AI assistance, clinicians can complete exams more efficiently while reducing variability and improving diagnostic confidence, especially in complex or time-sensitive cases.
Designed With Clinicians, For Clinicians
Samsung Medison emphasizes that the R20 is the result of extensive collaboration with medical professionals across specialties such as radiology, cardiology, obstetrics & gynecology, emergency medicine and musculoskeletal imaging. Input gathered from real clinical environments informed the system’s ergonomic structure, control layout and mobility features.
The R20 has achieved independent third-party validation as a leader in user-centered ergonomic design, meeting 100% of recognized professional ergonomic guidelines and recommendations. The system introduces improvements such as more adaptable monitor positioning, a redesigned height-adjustable control panel, intuitive interface placement and optimized transducer cable management—all engineered to reduce operator strain and support comfortable scanning posture throughout long clinical shifts.
Given the increasing demand for high exam throughput, these ergonomic improvements play an important role in boosting clinical efficiency while improving workplace well-being. The combination of comfort and automation is expected to help health systems address staffing shortages by reducing physical fatigue and minimizing the learning curve for new operators.
A New Benchmark for AI-Driven Ultrasound Innovation
The introduction of the R20 marks a defining moment for Samsung Medison as it strives to expand its leadership position within the ultrasound industry. Over the past decade, Samsung has progressed rapidly in medical imaging through consistent investments in advanced semiconductor technologies, AI algorithms, display engineering and smart user interfaces. The R20 represents the convergence of these capabilities in a platform built to deliver practical, real-world benefits rather than technology for technology’s sake.
Tracy Bury, Chief Commercial Officer of Samsung Healthcare in the USA and Vice President of Global Growth Initiatives, emphasized the company’s mission during the product announcement, stating:
The R20 embodies our mission to elevate diagnostic imaging through purposeful innovation. Driven by close collaboration with clinicians, the R20’s technologies are designed as practical tools that make a real difference in how clinicians work and how patients are cared for. With the R20, we’re moving from a fast follower to a true technology leader, driving innovation at a pace that’s reshaping ultrasound.
Samsung believes that continuing to improve AI capabilities, image quality and ergonomic design will redefine the role of ultrasound in precision medicine, empowering healthcare providers to deliver earlier diagnosis, faster decisions and better patient outcomes.
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