SUMMARY & POSTERS OARSI WORLD CONGRESS, DENVER, MARCH 15-19, 2023
Published on March 21, 2023 by Chondrometrics-admin
The team of Chondrometrics GmbH and the Research Program for Imaging at Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität presenting at the World Congress in Denver included Wolfgang Wirth (Chief Technical Officer and Chief of Quality Control), Anna Wisser (Project Manager), Kalpana Sharma (PhD student), and Felix Eckstein (CEO & CMO).
The group presented the 5 first-author posters displayed below. These reflect the current project status at Chondrometrics and at PMU. They cover topics ranging from Imaging-based characterization of osteoarthritis endotypes (APPROACH project), the relationship of meniscus extrusion with structural and symptomatic osteoarthritis progression (OAI FNIH 1 Biomarker Consortium project), the clinical validation of automated (U-net-based) cartilage T2 analysis using two different clinical models (Eurostars OA BIO project), and finally a project studying whether automated cartilage thickness analysis profits from quality control and correction compared with manual gold standard segmentations.
We would like to thank our many collaborators for their support and contribution to the above projects, and it will be a pleasure seeing you all at the 2023 Imaging Workshop in Lausanne
First-author posters
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Kalpana Sharma
•I presented a poster entitled “Association of quantitative meniscus measures
with radiographic and symptomatic progression of knee osteoarthritis” at the OARSI World Congress in Denver, USA (March 15-19, 2023). In this poster, I have investigated the meniscal extrusion and its association with structural and symptomatic progression of KOA. The findings indicated that the associations were driven by structural progression rather than symptomatic progression. These results suggest that assessing meniscal changes may be important for monitoring the KOA progression and for evaluating interventions aimed at meniscal restoration.
The OARSI conference in 2023 was the first international conference I attended, where I had the opportunity to interact with many scientists from around the world. The exchange of ideas and experiences was truly enriching and memorable. I would like to sincerely thank Prof. Felix for providing me the opportunity to present and participate the OARSI conference, 2023.
Felix Eckstein
•I was my first OARSI after a couple of years. To see many old friends, and to see their concern about the past years, was overwhelming. It was like “coming back” to a peer group that felt a little bit like “home”. Thanks to all who cared; it was one of the most positive experiences I have had.
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