Predictive measures to guide therapy following pulmonary embolism
Team CT (Computed tomography) is applying image analysis techniques to help radiologists find small clots in computed tomography pulmonary angiographies, and to evaluate the risk of death for patients suffering from pulmonary embolism, based on the stress that the illness puts in the patients’ hearts.
Project status
M+Visión project: Jan 2012 – Jun 2014
On exit from M+Visión: Innovation Development grant from Partners Healthcare
Name & Contact
Team CT |
See also: cad-pe.org, @cad-pe
Sector
Computer science. Image analisys. Pulmonary embolism
Fellows
Germán González Serrano, Ara Kassarijian
Collaborators
Raúl San José Estépar, Surgical Planning Laboratory
BWH
María Jesús Ledesma
UPM
Eduardo Fraile, Susana Hernández Muñiz, Patricia Fraga Rivas
Unidad Central de Radiodiagnóstico Madrid
Elizabeth George, Kanako K. Kumamru, and Frank J. Rybicki
Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Students
Sara Rodríguez-López, Jorge Onieva, Daniel Jiménez Carretero
UPM
Computer Aided Detection of Pulmonary Embolism (CADPE). G. Gonzalez MJ Ledesma-Carbayo, R San Jose Estepar, E Fraile-Moreno, A Kassarjian. International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) Grand Challenge Workshop, 2013
Automated axial right ventricle to left ventricle diameter ratio computation in Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA). Germán González, Kanako Kumamaru, Daniel Jiménez Carretero, Elizabeth George, María Jesús Ledesma, Frank Rybicki, Sara Rodriguez-Lopez, Raul San Jose Estepar, Dimitris Mitsouras, Arash Bedayat. Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Chicago, Dec 2013.
Prospective Evaluation of Automated Ventricular Diameter Ratio Computation Software for Positive CT Pulmonary Angiography. Kanako K. Kumamaru, Elizabeth George MD, Ayaz Aghayev, Sachin S. Saboo, Ashish R. Khandelwal, Frank J. Rybicki, German Gonzalez, Daniel Jimenez-Carretero, Maria J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Sara Rodriguez-Lopez, Raul San Jose Estepar, Tianrun Cai, Amir Imanzadeh, Rani S. Sewatkar, Zoha Hussain. Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Chicago, Dec 2014.
Disclosures
Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence Applications to Medical Images (MIT 15274)
Method to Determine the Prognosis of Patients Suffering from Pulmonary Embolism (MIT 16333J)
Copyrights
Software to Determine the Prognosis of Patients Suffering from Pulmonary Embolism (MIT 17522J)
Patents
Method And System For Determining The Prognosis Of A Patient Suffering From Pulmonary Embolism (MIT 16333J).
Patent Cooperation Treaty Serial No. PCT/EP2014/075840, Filed November 27, 2014
Licensing
A commercial partner in US is negotiating a license – expected closing date May 2015
CAD-PE Challenge selected for inclusion as a grand challenge in the ISBI framework, 2013
Innovation development grant award from Partners Healthcare.
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Media and updates
April 29, 2014 Update:
Team CT’s paper, “Automated Axial Right Ventricle to Left Ventricle Diameter Ratio Computation in Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography” (PONE-D-14-52979R3) was accepted for publication PLOS ONE. The paper will be published soon.
From the September 2014 newsletter:
Team CT member wins Best Masters Thesis honor
Every year the Spanish Professional Organization of Telecommunication Engineers (Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, or COIT) rewards the excellence of the best Master Thesis and the best PhD Thesis performed by Telecommunications Engineers in Spain. This year the best Master Thesis honor was given to Sara Rodríguez-López, a member of M+Visión Fellows project “Team CT.”
Read the full story here+
From the January 2013 newsletter:
The CAD-PE challenge
Team CT and their collaborators in Madrid and Boston are developing a method for computer aided detection of pulmonary embolisms. The current standard for screening misses as many as 10% of threats. They invite you to join the CAD-PE Challenge to help improve detection techniques that could save thousands of lives each year.
A pulmonary (thrombo)-embolism (PE) refers to the situation when a portion of a blood clot becomes lodged in a pulmonary artery. PE affects between 300,000-600,000 Americans every year and results in 12,000-80,000 deaths/ year.
Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiogram (CTPA) is the reference standard in imaging of pulmonary emboli. However, radiologists miss visible emboli in 3-10% of cases [2,3,4]. Delay of treatment or lack of treatment results in increased morbidity and mortality [5]. Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems to detect PE exist [6], but do not yield adequate specificity for their use in clinical practice [7] and increase read time [8]. This challenge is designed to foster research in the field of CAD for PE and to provide an objective benchmark with which to compare different algorithms of CAD for PE.
Learn more and get involved at http://www.cad-pe.org.