PROGRESS: Completed Project	PROJECT REF: NA
PROJECT TITLE: An Intelligence-Enhanced System For Early Detection Of Idiopathic Scoliosis In Chest Radiography
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Introduction: (Maximum 100 words) Idiopathic scoliosis occurs primarily among adolescent children. This is an intelligent-enhanced system that can detect and classify chest images with scoliosis based on image content without human intervention. When there is large volume of image data, detection of scoliosis by human eyes would be very tedious and costly. This system can read in the image files (including DICOM format) in the image storage server and automatically classifies the image with scoliosis and retrieves the images to a designated destination. The clinician can then verify the result and thus would save a lot of times in scrutinizing all images. Special Features and Advantages: (Maximum 50 words) 1 Early detection of idiopathic scoliosis 2 Monitoring of the progress and extent of scoliosis 3 Detection of the severity of scoliosis based on x-ray chest images and without taking further whole-spine x-rays reducing radiation dose 4 Automatic extraction of possible scoliostic images from any image database without human intervention Application(s): (Maximum 50 words) 1) Provision of an auto-alert of scoliosis for medical practitioners 2) An automatic screening device for scoliosis in any health centre based on chest images only 3) Useful for monitoring of idiopathic scoliosis in different remote sites
FOCUS AREA(S): Medical Diagnostics and Devices
KEYWORDS: Detection,idiopathic scoliosis, radiography
MODE OF COLLABORATION: consultancy, licensing
STATUS PATENT: NA	PATENT NO: NA
ORGANIZATION: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
CONTACT PERSON: Prof. Keith Chan	EMAIL: cskcchan@comp.polyu.edu.hk
TEL: (852)-27667265	FAX: (852)-27740842
WEBSITE:	DATE: 30/12/2004