The Role of MRI of Cartilage in Improving Clinical Management in Orthopedics: A Surgeon's Perspective
Daniel Saris1
1Mayo Clinic, United States

Synopsis

Cell based surgical repair of cartilage has progressed to a reliable therapeutical option. advanced imaging modalities with automated segmentation and disease focused presentation of relevant findings that correlate to patient's disease and monitor progress of healing would represent tremendous patient centered progress

Visualization of cartilage in the knee is an important aspect of clinical decision making. As a surgeon working in the regenerative medicine and cartilage repair field it would be wonderful if we were to have bio signal imaging that correlates with patient's clinical symptoms enabling us to assist in decision making, indications for surgery or conservative management as well as follow-up of the success or failure of regenerative therapies in cartilage repair.

Automated segmentation of the intra and periarticular structures with 3 dimensional partially transparent representation and AI or machine learning based algorithms to assist in predicting relevant abnormalities and relating these to the chances of successful repair or the progression of disease in larger to no follow-up would be a tremendous meaningful advance in the imaging based clinical management in cartilage repair

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Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 30 (2022)