VUNO recently partnered with Dr. Dong-Won Yang, a Neurology Professor at The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital 1 a flagship hospital of Korea’s largest healthcare network that is highly recognized in the industry for publishing world-leading medical research.
Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital is a University based, teaching, academic medical center with state-of-the-art facilities and medical services. It is a major teaching hospital for the Catholic University School of Medicine and is a nationally known referral center for other hospitals in Korea and abroad. It is internationally renowned for its professional medical care and world-leading medical research.1
The hospital has been Joint Commission International accredited since 2010.1
Challenges
“It is challenging to recognize and explain areas of atrophy without extensive experience in visually identifying them.” – Dr. Yang
The naked eye can only see so much
Staff members lacking extensive experience in visual identification struggled to identify brain atrophy and damage to brain vessels. Identifying areas of deviation from normalcy is essential to accurately interpret patients’ symptoms. Dr. Yang’s team needed a solution to consistently pinpoint and assess brain atrophy that deviated from typical patterns.
Difficulty with Longitudinal Analysis
Another challenge was determining whether a brain had remained healthy or atrophy had progressed 1-3 years after the first scan. Manually comparing scans can be tedious and time consuming. It is very difficult, even for experienced clinicians, to determine the exact progression from the follow-up readings.
Solution
VUNO Med®-DeepBrain® was the perfect solution for The
Catholic University of Seoul ST. Mary’s Hospital’s needs as it could rapidly quantify brain area atrophy that the naked eye could not see, integrate seamlessly into pre-existing PACS platforms and help explain findings in a patient-centric way.
According to Dr. Yang, VUNO’s Med®-DeepBrain® solution overcomes these challenges by providing accurate analysis of previous and current scans in intuitive reports with color coded overlays.
Explaining results at the patient’s level
Patients struggled to understand how their disease diagnosis and progression compared to those within the same age range, seeking additional information to help them better understand their individual situation.
“VUNO Med®-DeepBrain® provides clinicians with an analysis of brain images, indicating how much a specific area of a patient’s brain has atrophied compared to people of the same age. This information is very effective in explaining MRI results to patients.” – Dr. Yang
“In the field of memory impairment and dementia, VUNO’s Med®-DeepBrain® solution for quantifying brain area atrophy is greatly assisting clinicians and is a product that is truly helpful in actual clinical practice.”
– Dr. Yang
The Catholic University of Korea and Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital now leverages VUNO Med®-DeepBrain® as an instant neuroradiology co-pilot.
About the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital
Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital is a University based, teaching, academic medical center with state-of-the-art facilities and medical services. It is a major teaching hospital for the Catholic University School of Medicine and is a nationally known referral center for other hospitals in Korea and abroad. It is internationally renowned for its professional medical care and world-leading medical research.
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