Creation of a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scar segmentation tool using multi-vendor scans
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Creation of a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scar segmentation tool using multi-vendor scans
IRAS ID
290340
Contact name
Shahnaz Jamil-Copley
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
20CA015, Research & Innovation - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 1 days
Research summary
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is used frequently in patients that have heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias). Once a CMR is acquired, it needs to undergo post-processing by trained individuals with specialist software in order to highlight specific aspects that are pertinent to the care of the patient - this can vary between cases. Software tools exist that allow trained individuals to manually analyse the CMR images. This is labour intensive and between different investigators there can be significant variability. An automated computer model which can enact some of these post-processing tools would reduce the variability and time for analysis. We propose the developmnent of such a tool. This would require collection of previously collected CMR data in order to develop such a tool. Clinically acquired CMR would be pseudonymised and then in collaboration with the parent team (cardiology), a medical imaging and computing specialist team and specialist magnetic resonance team would be analysed and used for the generation of this tool. These teams are based at Nottingham University Hospitals, Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre (University of Nottingham - UoN) and Jubilee Campus (UoN) respectively.
This tool will be based on machine learning and hence would require previous cardiac MRIs for learning purposes. Data will be collected from Nottingham University Hospitals CMR department. No additional MRIs will need to be undertaken. There will be no recruitment of patients or participants.
This study will as a secondary aspect contribute to obtaining an educational degree - as per recent HRA, this will not impact on NHS systems and is not primarily for an educational purpose.REC name
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