Bone microarchitecture 2D

Quibim

Quibim has developed this suite to characterize the trabecular bone microarchitecture from post-processed X-ray images. The tool provides bone volume percentage, trabecular thickness, separation and irregularity analysis, and combines these biomarkers in a single score, the quality of trabecular structure (QTS) score.
The suite helps identify initial deterioration and follow up patients with high precision and accuracy. The tool has been specifically designed to analyze the trabecular bone of distal regions, such as distal radius metaphysis, distal tibia metaphysis and calcaneus, and adds value in the stratification of patients with osteoporosis, through the analysis of lateral spine X-rays. Analyzing the bone microarchitecture provides additional information to densitometry, by quantifying bone quality-related imaging biomarkers that help assess bone diseases such as osteoporosis, osteopenia or multiple myeloma.

Product specifications

Information source: Vendor
Last updated: Feb. 11, 2022

General
Product name	Bone microarchitecture 2D
Company	Quibim
Subspeciality	MSK
Modality	X-ray
Disease targeted	Osteoporosis Osteopenia, Multiple myeloma, Osteoarthritis, Joints deterioration, Fractures
Key-features	Volume percentage, trabecular thickness, separation and fractal dimensions, and the Quality of a Trabecular Structure (QTS) Score
Suggested use	During: perception aid (prompting all abnormalities/results/heatmaps), interactive decision support (shows abnormalities/results only on demand), Need to draw ROI
Data characteristics
Population	Patients with bone degenerative diseases
Input	X-Ray
Input format
Output	One page structured report: ROI of trabecular bone, table of biomarkers, QTS score
Output format	DICOM Secondary Capture / PDF
Technology
Integration	Integration in standard reading environment (PACS), Integration via AI marketplace or distribution platform, Stand-alone third party application, Stand-alone webbased
Deployment	Locally on dedicated hardware, Locally virtualized (virtual machine, docker), Cloud-based, Hybrid solution
Trigger for analysis	Automatically after drawing ROI
Processing time	> 10 minutes
Certification
CE	Certified, Class IIa , MDD
FDA	No or not yet
Market presence
On market since	01-2019
Distribution channels	Alma HEALTH PLATFORM
Countries present (clinical, non-research use)	3
Paying clinical customers (institutes)	<5
Research/test users (institutes)	<5
Pricing
Pricing model	License
Based on	Number of installations, Number of analyses
Evidence
Peer reviewed papers on performance
Non-peer reviewed papers on performance
Other relevant papers	Alberich-Bayarri A, et al. Reproducibility and accuracy in the morphometric and mechanical quantification of trabecular bone from 3 Tesla magnetic resonance images. Radiologia. 2014; 56: 27-34. Alberich-Bayarri A, et al. Assesment of 2D and 3D fractal dimension measurements of trabecular bone from high-spatial resolution magnetic resonance images at 3 T. Med Phys. 2010; 37: 4930-7. Alberich-Bayarri A, et al. In vivo trabecular bone morphological and mechanical relationship using high resolution 3 T magnetic resonance imaging. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2008. 1971: 721-726.