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❮News $3.5M Grant Awarded to Annotate and Exchange Virtual Anatomy

07/18/2019

$3.5M Grant Awarded to Annotate and Exchange Virtual Anatomy

The software suite will provide three-dimensional renderings to doctors and researchers

screenshot of labeled knee rendering

Ahmet Erdemir, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a 4-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (part of the National Institutes of Health) to develop a software suite that will allow the annotation of virtual anatomy.

Virtual anatomy, a three-dimensional, interactive rendering of the human anatomy, is widely used in medical schools and in clinical and biomedical engineering applications. This comprehensive software package will enable doctors and researchers to better describe the relationships and interactions between organs and to label symptoms that will help in the diagnosis of illness, as a way to augment the virtual representations of the anatomy that are increasingly relied upon in computational modeling and simulation.

The software, called AEVA (Annotation and Exchange of Virtual Anatomy), will have applications in medicine (for example, to help a doctor plan a patient’s care or surgery) and in biomedical engineering (to create a therapy or medical device). Other potential uses include helping in the understanding of physiological function, evaluating injury risk and predicting the outcome of a medical or surgical intervention. As a general purpose computational anatomy software, the package responds to emerging requirements of embedding large amount of data on the anatomy while making it accessible for variety of users.

The proposed software package will comprise three arms: a multi-platform software library; user interfaces to support data exchange, and; sample cases involving three human anatomy systems to demonstrate the software’s applicability to clinical and biomedical practice. The development and distribution of the software will rely on free and open source practices to empower the community at large.

The project is a joint effort for software design, development and testing between Cleveland Clinic and Kitware, Inc., a software development company based in Clifton Park, New York. Dr. Erdemir has also established an advisory board of Cleveland Clinic staff to provide insight on the anticipated use of the proposed software. Members of the Advisory Board include co-investigators Richard Drake, PhD, Director of Anatomy in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine; William Dupps, MD, PhD, Cole Eye Institute; Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, PhD, Neurological Institute; Linda Graham, MD, Lerner Research Institute; Morgan Jones, MD, Orthopaedic & Rheumatology Institute; and Joshua Polster, MD, Imaging Institute. 

“I am very excited about this collaborative project,” says Dr. Erdemir. “It will be a foundational platform at the heart of computational modeling, clinical evaluation of anatomy, medical training and data consolidation.”

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