The team of Chondrometrics GmbH and the Research Program for Imaging at Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität presenting at the World Congress in Vienna included Susanne Maschek (Chief of Human Resources and Quality Control), Anna Wisser (Project Manager), Wolfgang Wirth (Chief Technical Officer and Chief of Quality Control), Clemens Heistracher (PhD Student), and Felix Eckstein (CEO & CMO). Felix Eckstein gave an Oral Presentation during the Imaging Session on Friday, April 19^th (No. 20) on the impact of unblinded reading vs. segmentations blinded to the order (time point) of image acquisition on the rates of longitudinal cartilage thickness change, and on the structural treatment effects on cartilage in osteoarthritis.
During the China-Germany-Night later the same day, he gave a Review Lecture on the role of imaging biomarkers in the development of disease modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADs), on current disease-modifying treatment trials in osteoarthritis, and on recent results obtained with fully automated segmentation & analysis of articular tissues, using AI- (more specifically CNN-) based algorithms.
The group presented 6 first-author posters, and co-authored another 4 posters with their collaborating partners, all displayed below. The 10 posters cover a wide range of imaging applications in osteoarthritis research and nicely reflect the current status of work both at Chondrometrics and at the group at PMU.
We hope seeing you again at OARSI 2025 next April in Seoul, Korea.
Finally we would like to thank the below researchers for their invaluable contributions and the exciting collaborations:

First-author posters

Thanks to:   Frank Roemer, Simon Lévy, Armin Nagel, Maximilian Bachl, Michael Uder

Thanks to:  Akshay Chaudhari, David Hunter

Thanks to: Nicholas Brisson, Georg Duda, Francis Berenbaum

Thanks to: Christina Niedling, Pætur Holm, Søren T. Skou, Jana Eder (Kemnitz)

Co-author posters

Thanks to: Jamie Collins, Elena Losina, Thomas Fuerst, Douglas Robinson, Ali Guermazi, Peter Mesenbrink, Letizia Deveza, David Hunter, Virginia Kraus, Christoph Ladel, Thomas Perry, Christopher Swearingen, Erik Dam

Thanks to: Annegret Mündermann, Leon Schoof, Corina Nüesch, Florian Imhoff, Christian Egloff, Simon Herger

Thanks to: Mylène Jansen, Simon Mastbergen, Tom Turmezei, Kishan Dattani, Jamie MacKay, Margreet Kloppenburg, Dimitri Kessler, Francisco Blanco, Ida Haugen, Francis Berenbaum, Frank Roemer 

Thanks to:  Eva Bax, Chien Nguyen, Roel Custers, Nienke van Egmond, Vahid Arbabi, Hassan Rayegan, Willem Paul Gielis, Claudia Lindner, Tim F. Cootes, Margreet Kloppenburg, Francisco J. Blanco, Ida K. Haugen, Francis Berenbaum, Mylène P. Jansen, Simon C. Mastbergen, Harrie Weinans