Hip osteoarthritis can be a painful and debilitating condition. Unfortunately, osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease with no cure, as of yet. A long term research goal of the Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research (MQIR) interdisciplinary group in the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, led by Sharmila Majumdar, PhD (director), and Thomas Link, MD, PhD (clinical director), is to develop advanced imaging techniques to detect early degenerative changes within the joint. Within MQIR, there is a focus on quantitative musculoskeletal image processing and artificial intelligence applied to the musculoskeletal system. This includes research surrounding the development of new clinically applicable machine learning and deep learning approaches for image analysis of osteoarthritis.
Overall, MQIR forms a cohesive center for faculty members,…
