#1 – Measuring your arterial age to prevent heart diseases – Ted Baldwin – Imageens
Cardiovascular diseases represent the leading cause of deaths worldwide. Despite the permanent progress in the treatment of such conditions, targeted prevention approaches remain a key solution to address this issue.
This is the challenge that Imageens, a Paris-based startup led by Ted Baldwin, is tackling through the application of artificial intelligence to medical imaging, with the aim to quantify your arterial age. This specific biomarker unvails unique opportunities to anticipate heart conditions for people at moderate risk, with the promise to inform better clinical care decisions.
We exchanged with Ted on the burden that cardiovascular diseases represent on a global level, the power of AI applied to medical imaging to discover early indicators of these pathologies, and how these insights can drive better personalized prevention programs to stay away from them.
Timeline:
01:50 – 05:18: origins of Imageens
06:23 – 08:16: unmet need that Imageens is addressing
08:53 – 12:56: existing cardiac risk scores and the arterial age concept
13:10 – 15:36: technical approach to quantify the arterial age using MRI and AI
15:41 – 20:10: relationship between biological and arterial ages
20:32 – 22:56: MESA trial led by Johns Hopkins University and its link to the discovery of cardiac risk scores
23:26 – 30:09: Imageens softwares Artfun+ and LABEL, their functioning and role in predictive imaging biomarkers discovery
30:21 – 31:05: moving beyond MRI to other imaging modalities
31:35 – 33:21: target patient population and access to Imageens technology
33:43 – 36:09: acceptance by physicians and the medical community
36:48 – 37:30: patient journey description
38:00 – 40:24: moving towards predictive analysis of the optimal cardiac prevention program
What we also talked with Ted about:
- Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)
- MESA trial
- Framingham risk score
- Cardiac CT calcium score
- Ascending aortic distensibility
- Ted’s TEDx presentation
- Ganymed Robotics
- Zoï
- Altos Labs
- Qualitiso
If you want to know more about Imageens, we invite you to consult their website: https://www.imageens.com/
You can contact Ted through LinkedIn or by email: [email protected]
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