Life Sciences Computing

What Life Sciences Computing does

Life Sciences Computing Corporation (LSC) is a Tokyo-based medical software developer founded in 2009 that builds and sells picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), mobile healthcare applications, and AI-assisted imaging tools for Japanese healthcare providers. The company's flagship product is Xronos, a self-developed medical image management system with over 20 years of accumulated engineering history, available in both cloud and on-premise configurations with electronic health record (EHR) integration, DICOM import, and remote reading support. LSC also distributes PanoACT, a dental digital panoramic X-ray device (sold via related company Axion Japan), the DICOM-Shot iOS application for capturing and transmitting DICOM images from iPhone/iPad to PACS servers, the LINE de Receipt prescription intake service for pharmacies, and the DICOM Gateway/Converter for ingesting non-DICOM imaging modalities (ultrasound, endoscopy, fundus, panoramic dental) into DICOM 3.0 compliant workflows.

The company monetizes through a mix of one-time PACS license fees (Xronos disclosed at 1,200,000 JPY perpetual plus 360,000 JPY annual maintenance), recurring mobile app subscriptions (Medkan's 14-day free trial model), App Store unit purchases (DICOM-Shot at 1,300 JPY), medical hardware sales through Axion Japan, and IT implementation support services delivered under Japan's IT Introduction Subsidy program (LSC is an approved IT導入支援事業者 for both 2022 and 2023). Customers include small to mid-scale hospitals and clinics using Xronos, dental clinics using PanoACT, pharmacies using LINE de Receipt, and individual physicians and pharmacists using mobile applications. The product portfolio also includes aimy, a chest X-ray AI for detecting pneumonia and cardiomegaly developed in 2017 under the Okinawa Asia IT Business Creation Promotion Project and currently in clinical trials with partner clinics.

LSC operates exclusively in Japan and was previously an independent entity until October 1, 2025, when its shares were transferred from System Bit Co., Ltd. to Nagano Techtron Group Co., Ltd., bringing in a new management team. The company has historically pursued strategic alliances with Konica Minolta, IBM Japan, Future Architect, and S&I Corporation, divested its OpenDolphinPro electronic medical record business to Medley Corporation in May 2020, and obtained ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification in August 2024.

Name

Life Sciences Computing

Legal name

ライフサイエンス コンピューティング株式会社

Website

https://lscc.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Life Sciences Computing (LSC) is a Tokyo-based medical software company founded in 2009 that develops and sells PACS systems, mobile healthcare apps, and AI imaging tools for hospitals, clinics, dental practices, and pharmacies in Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Imaging Software / Healthcare IT

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451), Irradiation Apparatus Manufacturing (334517)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841)

akta.pro industry

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Imaging & Diagnostic Interoperability (DICOM exchange, image sharing, VNA connectivity)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Health Information Exchange (HIE) & Interoperability

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Medical Imaging AI

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning/Computer Vision & Video Analytics

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Medical Device Connectivity & Interoperability Middleware (MDI, EHR/HL7/FHIR Integration)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Healthcare IoT & Remote Patient Monitoring

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X-ray & Fluoroscopy Systems

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Medical Devices & Diagnostics/Medical Imaging & Radiology Equipment

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Universal Viewers & Enterprise Imaging Access (Zero-footprint/Diagnostic)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/Medical Imaging Informatics (PACS/RIS/VNA) & Radiology IT

Keywords

• Medical imaging software
• PACS systems
• Healthcare IT solutions
• DICOM image management
• Telemedicine applications

Headquarters

HQ city

Toshima

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. PACS and Software Licenses: Xronos PACS sold as software with annual maintenance contracts. Pricing disclosed as 1.2 million yen with annual maintenance starting at 360,000 yen. Cloud service options available. Software-only provision keeps initial costs low.
2. Mobile Applications: Mobile apps sold through the iOS App Store. DICOM-Shot priced at 1,300 yen for download. Medkan is free to download with subscription required for continued use. DentPad available for free.
3. Medkan Subscription: Medkan offers a 14-day free trial, after which a subscription purchase is required to continue using the service. Subscription is processed through the App Store.
4. Medical Device Sales: PanoACT dental digital panoramic X-ray devices are sold as physical medical equipment through the related sales company Axion Japan.
5. IT Implementation Support Services: LSC is approved as an IT introduction subsidy support provider (IT導入支援事業者), enabling customers to receive government subsidies for Xronos installation. This serves as a complementary revenue channel.
6. AI Development Services: AI development support services including research, development environment setup, training data creation, model design, implementation, learning, verification, tuning, demonstration experiments, and application implementation. Custom object detection and anomaly detection capabilities offered.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Life Sciences Computing develops, sells, and supports medical imaging software for healthcare providers in Japan. Its flagship product, the self-developed Xronos PACS, manages DICOM medical images across both cloud and on-premise deployments, with EHR/HIS/RIS integration and remote reading capabilities. The company also sells DICOM-Shot (iOS app for capturing and transmitting DICOM images), LINE de Receipt (pharmacy prescription intake via LINE), aimy (AI lung lesion detection), DICOM Gateway/Converter hardware-software, and AI development services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Xronos (クロノス): Self-developed PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) for medical image management, with over 20 years of experience. Available in cloud and local configurations.
• PanoACT (パノアクト)
• aimy
• LINE de Receipt
• Medkan

Products and services

• Xronos PACS Self-developed medical image management system (PACS) with over 20 years of development history, available in cloud and on-premise deployments, with DICOM import, MWM server integration for HIS/RIS order management, electronic health record integration, and remote reading services. Targeted at hospitals and clinics.
• DICOM-Shot iPhone/iPad app that captures photos via device camera and converts them to DICOM images for transmission to PACS/DICOM servers. Supports DICOM communication protocol, ZIP export to Dropbox, Evernote, and OsiriX HD, and works with Xronos and third-party DICOM servers. Targets individual clinicians and small practices.
• LINE de Receipt Prescription receipt service for pharmacies that allows patients to photograph prescriptions via LINE messenger and send them to the pharmacy. Includes auto-reply chatbot, automatic prescription printing, staff notifications, and estimated wait-time communication to reduce pharmacy counter wait times.
• aimy (AI Lung Lesion Detection) AI system that detects lung lesions including pneumonia and cardiomegaly from chest X-ray images in DICOM and JPG formats. Developed under the Okinawa Asia IT Business Creation Promotion Project and undergoing clinical trials with partner clinics. Targets radiology departments and medical institutions.
• DICOM Gateway / DICOM Converter DICOM Gateway hardware (compact enclosure approximately 4 CD cases in size) and DICOM Converter software that convert non-DICOM images (JPEG, TIFF, BMP) from ultrasound, endoscopy, fundus, and panoramic cameras into DICOM 3.0 compliant images and transmit them to DICOM servers. Supports MWM server integration, automatic and manual transmission modes, and historical data migration.
• PanoACT (Dental Digital Panoramic X-ray) Digital panoramic X-ray device capable of both panoramic tomography and dental X-ray imaging in a single unit. First in the industry to receive MHLW approval for dental imaging billing in October 2008. Sold via the related sales company Axion Japan to dental clinics.
• AI Development Services End-to-end AI development services for medical imaging including research, development environment setup, training data creation, model design, implementation, training, verification, tuning, demonstration experiments, and application implementation. Custom object detection and anomaly detection capabilities are offered to medical institutions and research partners.
• Custom Software Development Services Custom software development for medical and partner company needs, built on more than 20 years of in-house system and tool development experience, including future expansion into AI development. Targets partner companies and medical institutions requiring bespoke healthcare IT solutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• PanoACT series became the first in the industry to receive Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approval for dental imaging billing under the national health insurance system in October 2008
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability14 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• 株式会社メドレー (Medley Corporation)minorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 May 2020Transfer of OpenDolphinPro electronic medical record service assets to Medley Corporation in May 2020. Medley operates Japan's largest online medical consultation platform as its core business.
• サイバーリンクス株式会社 (CyberLinks Corporation)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 April 2013Business partnership in the medical cloud services sector announced in April 2013. The partnership combined LSC's medical IT expertise with CyberLinks' capabilities.
• コニカミノルタ株式会社 ヘルスケアカンパニー (Konica Minolta Healthcare)coreTechnology or Integration · 10 January 2013LSC provides its OpenDolphin cloud service to Konica Minolta for use in their Unitea α-CIS linked '在宅メディケアクラウド' (home medical care cloud) platform. In October 2013, Konica Minolta's Unitea α received the Good Design Award (��良デザイン賞).
• フューチャーアーキテクト株式会社 (Future Architect, Inc.)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 February 2012Capital and business partnership announced in February 2012, aimed at achieving the top position in medical cloud services. This was a strategic capital and business alliance for joint development and market positioning in healthcare cloud services.
• エス・アンド・アンド・エス・エス・アンド・エス・アンド・エス・アンド・エス・アンド・エス株式会社 (S&I Corporation)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 12 July 2011S&I Corporation started providing the 'Karte Cloud' service in October 2011 as a SaaS version of LSC's DolphinPro electronic medical record, integrated with the Nihon Medical Standard Receipt Software (ORCA).
• アクシオン・ジャパン株式会社 (Axion Japan Co., Ltd.)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAxion Japan is the related sales company for PanoACT dental digital X-ray products. The partnership involves distribution of dental imaging equipment with LSC providing the software and connection technology.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Canon Medical Systems: Major Japanese imaging vendor offering modality equipment plus integrated PACS and clinical imaging IT solutions. Targets the same Japanese hospital/clinic market as LSC's Xronos and competes on bundled modality + PACS offerings.
• Konica Minolta Healthcare: Existing LSC partner (Unitea α / クラウド) that also sells digital X-ray equipment, medical imaging IT, and healthcare cloud platforms in Japan. Directly competes with Xronos PACS and PanoACT for clinic imaging, while also being a past commercialization partner via OpenDolphin cloud.
• J. Morita Manufacturing: Japanese dental and medical imaging manufacturer offering panoramic X-ray, 3D CBCT, and imaging software. A direct competitor to PanoACT in dental imaging hardware, with deeper global distribution.
• Yoshida (YDM Corporation): Major Japanese dental equipment manufacturer offering digital panoramic X-ray, intraoral sensors, and dental imaging IT. Directly competes with PanoACT for dental clinic imaging hardware purchases.
• Fujifilm Healthcare (Synapse): Japanese-headquartered imaging giant whose Synapse PACS is the dominant enterprise imaging suite in Japan and competes with LSC's Xronos for hospital and clinic image management contracts. Directly comparable product category (PACS), same DICOM-based clinical workflow, same Japanese target market.
• Infocom Corporation (J-MIC): Japanese medical IT vendor with J-MIC and related cloud/medical imaging products serving clinics and hospitals. Competes head-to-head with Xronos for PACS contracts in Japan's mid-tier clinical segment.
• EBM Corporation (EBM-PACS): Japan-based PACS vendor serving clinics and small hospitals with cloud/on-premise imaging management solutions, in the same niche LSC targets with Xronos. Provides a comparable all-in-one PACS + modality + support offering for the SMB clinical market.

Broad incumbents

• Siemens Healthineers: Global enterprise imaging and AI vendor (syngo, AI-Rad Companion) serving major Japanese hospitals. Competes with Xronos indirectly via large-hospital contracts where LSC lacks scale, while providing category benchmarks for AI imaging.
• GE HealthCare: Global medical imaging giant offering modalities, PACS/Centricity-class enterprise imaging, and AI imaging analytics. Operates in Japan broadly across hospitals; provides scale and AI benchmarks that LSC's aimy and Xronos are benchmarked against.

Emerging players

• Medley: Japanese digital health platform that acquired LSC's OpenDolphinPro EMR assets in May 2020 and operates Japan's largest online medical consultation platform. Comparable as a Japanese healthcare-IT peer; competes indirectly via EMR + cloud workflow.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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