The Cardiac Imaging Unit of the Clinical and Translational Cardiology Research Group of the Institut de Recerca de l’ Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau has signed a collaboration agreement with the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the UPF. The overall objective is to develop computational methods and tools for medical imaging analysis, specifically based on the radiological characteristics of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Radiomics is a recent discipline in medical physics that focuses on the extraction of quantifiable characteristics from various types of medical images (computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography). The use of numerical algorithms makes it possible to extract features that are not obvious to the naked eye, and that contribute to improve and complete the diagnosis of various pathologies.
