3D LIVER VIRTUAL
MODELING RECONSTRUCTION

Project description

This project aims to provide the clinician with a 3D digital twin of the liver and all its structures and lesions, based on Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images, in an automated manner using artificial vision, machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence.

With the specific REMOVIRT software, the clinician will be able to use this reconstruction to specify the diagnosis of liver lesions, to plan and simulate surgeries, to improve the explanation of diseases and surgical techniques to the patient and their families.

Objetives

The principal objetive is to obtain high-precision three-dimensional virtual reconstruction of the liver from previous CT and MRI images in an automated way.

As additional objetives, are established:

• development of computer applications for generating 3D models
• planning and simulation of surgeries
• volumetric calculations
• improved communication with the patient

Research team

Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (GSHRI) Team

Sergio Manuel Estévez Fernández - Principal Investigator (coIP)
Physician Area Specialist General and Digestive Surgery Service
Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery Unit at the University Hospital Complex of Vigo
PhD in Medicine and Surgery
Associate Professor, Medicine Degree, USC

Manuel Nogueira Sixto
Physician Area Specialist in the General and Digestive Surgery Department at the University Hospital Complex of Vigo
Master's in Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplants

Pablo Gómez Cáceres
Physician Area Specialist in Radiology at the University Hospital Complex of Vigo
Abdominal radiology / Hepatic and pancreatic pathology

Ester Mariño Padín
Physician Area Specialist General and Digestive Surgery Service of the University Hospital Complex of Vigo

Alejandra García Baizán
Physician Area Specialist in Radiodiagnosis, Abdominal and Genitourinary Imaging at the University Hospital Complex of Vigo
PhD in Applied Medicine and Biomedicine

María Inmaculada Aymerich López
PhD in Photonics
Postdoctoral Researcher of the Diagnostic Imaging Research Group of the Álvaro Cunqueiro University Hospital

María Milagros Otero García
Section Head
Physician Area Specialist in Radiology at the University Hospital Complex of Vigo
Doctor of Medicine

Raquel Sánchez Santos
Head of the General and Digestive Surgery Department at the University Hospital Complex of Vigo
Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
Guest Professor in the Master's in Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Vigo
Galicia Sur Health Research Institute
Associate Professor, Degree in Medicine, USC
President of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases (SECO)

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)

Enrique Comesaña Figueroa - Investigador Principal (coIP)
Assistant Professor Doctor
Department of Electronics and Computing
PhD in Information Technology from USC

Xosé Ramón Vidal Fernández
University professor
Department of Applied Physics / Artificial Vision Research Group
PhD in Physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)

Lois Nodar Corral
Student of the Robotics Degree Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC)

Found

In the year 2023, it has obtained a subsidy through competitive competition from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - Convocatoria 2022 Generación del Conocimiento: 450.000 Euros (Code: PID2022-142709OA-C22/PID2022-142709OB-C21).

Project PID2022-142709OA-C22/PID2022-142709OB-C21 funded by:

In 2022, it has obtained a subsidy through competitive competition from the Área de Valorización, Transferencia e Emprendemento de la USC (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): 17.000 Euros.