Osteoarthritis Detection: Rupsa Bhattacharjee is Searching for New Tools [Video]

Rupsa Bhattacharjee, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSF, is working on new AI-aided imaging technology to detect osteoarthritis early and allow healthcare professionals to slow its advance. Osteoarthritis currently affects over 32 million adults in the USA, with that number only rising. As a degenerative disease with no reliable cures to reverse the damage, Bhattacharjee knows the key is to find the signs early so that patients might halt progression, rather than wishing they could reverse it.

As part of her research, Bhattacharjee collaborates with Richard Souza, MD, of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, which allows her to add motion tracking data to the information she gathers through UCSF’s state of the art MRI machines.

Healthcare access is a key concern for Bhattacharjee, which is why she has also worked to develop AI-aided tools that can extract more detailed information from the most common low-powered MRI machines. This new …