AtheroRisk, our 2-year Research Project, during which we developed our Carotid Ultrasound Image and Video Analysis Software for Stroke Risk Stratification, successfully passed its formal Evaluation and Review Process, as required by its corresponding funding source, the Research and Innovation Foundation, in Cyprus.
🔍 An independent foreign European Reviewer, MD and Full Professor in Medical Diagnostics, Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy, was appointed by RIF to rate the quality of our research Software, its workflow and associated results, its underlying technological and methodological aspects, and give a final judgement, in a formal online group meeting, around mid-September 2024.
AtheroRisk has officially received a ‘Category A- Excellent‘.
This was made possible because it was led by Dr Efthyvoulos Kyriacou (PI and Leader of the ehealthlab@CUT), and supported by Prof. Andrew Nicolaides MS, FRCS, PhD (Hon) and his Team of Clinical Experts (Clininal and Ethics Committee), who offered us brilliant guidance in medical data quality aspects, and the appropriate carotid ultrasound video acquisition protocol, and who applied useful software evaluations, in every step, to help us produce a high quality software solution; a software which was developed based on years of research led by Dr Efthyvoulos Kyriacou and Dr Christos P. Loizou, and with the dedication and excellent work of Michalis Gemenaris (full-stack development young researcher at ehealthlab@CUT) and Georgia Liapi (PhD student working on carotid ultrasound video analysis).
It has been an honour for the ehealthlab@CUT Team Members to have collaborated 📎 with all the Clinicians, Experts and Senior Researchers in the AtheroRisk Consortium (from Cyprus University of Technology, Frederick University, CYENS Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus, UOA School of Medicine, CING and the Americal Medical Center in Cyprus), for such a meaningful purpose 💡.
This has been the birth of AtheroRisk.
The Software keeps growing.
