Women are more frequently affected by knee osteoarthritis than men, but the biological and structural reasons for this difference are still not fully understood. Two recent publications involving Chondrometrics contribute new evidence to this question by focusing on sex-related differences in MRI knee cartilage thickness, radiographic joint space width (JSW), imaging of other articular tissues, … Continued
The International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging (IWOAI) has become one of the most distinctive scientific meetings in the osteoarthritis imaging community. What began in 2007 in the small pre-Alpine Bavarian village of Ainring, with Felix Eckstein as the first-time organizer, has grown into a truly international workshop. The meeting is held every year since then … Continued
Heartfelt congratulations to Frank Roemer and co-authors, including four from the Chondrometrics team, for winning the “Best Clinical Science Paper Award” of articles published in „Cartilage” in 2025. Almost at the same time, Frank was announced to win the prestigious Clinical Research Award of the Osteoarthritis Research Society (OARSI), granted at the World Congress in … Continued
Cartilage composition, or cartilage morphology; cartilage relaxometry or morphometry? What is the “better” endpoint, or do we need both? And if we do, isn’t acquisition and segmentation of two sets of MRI sequences in a study or trial not simply prohibitive, too time consuming, and too expensive for the funder? The current work by Simor … Continued
We are overly happy that our review on: “Advances in Cartilage Imaging Techniques”, including Felix Eckstein and Wolfgang Wirth as authors, has just been published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology (NRR) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41634466/. This poly-author article covers the following areas: Introduction – MRI technique – semiquantitative MRI – cartilage assessment – cartilage morphometry – high field (3 … Continued
Chondrometrics authors publish a review on clinical validation of automated AI based segmentation of articular tissues in a special issue of Osteoarthritis Cartilage Open, with reference to two recently published original articles by the group. Chondrometrics’ CEO Wolfgang Wirth, and former team and now SAB member Jana Eder, have just published a review in which … Continued
APPROACH (Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway) was a European Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project designed to improve stratification and prediction of progression in knee osteoarthritis (OA). By integrating imaging, clinical parameters, biochemical markers and machine learning in 300 participants followed over 2 years, the APPROACH consortium established one of the most deeply phenotyped … Continued
ACR Open Rheumatol. 2025 Sep;7(9):e70085 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40977252/ With Jamie Collins from Harvard University and Chondrometrics SAB member as a first author, the 2nd large osteoarthritis biomarker consortium qualification project that was supported by the Foundation of the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), has now been published: The goal was to validate MRI-based prognostic biomarkers using data … Continued
The term virtual is now everywhere: Reality (VR) | Machine (VM) | Assistant (VA) | Network (VPN) | Currency (VC) and many more. But is “Virtual Knee Replacement” (vKR) a cheaper way of surgery without a surgeon, or a new therapy for late-stage osteoarthritis? In their article, just published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Kent Kwoh, … Continued
Double Ace: A new original study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, a prestigious and influential medical journal that shapes medical practice by its high-impact publications, has highlighted the dual benefit of high tibial osteotomy (HTO) on structure & pain in knee osteoarthritis Birmingham TB, Primeau CA, Moyer RF, Bryant DM, Ma J, Leitch KM, … Continued