COPDetect

AI-enhanced Breathanalyser for the prediction of COPD exacerbations
COPD exacerbations, marked by severe breathing difficulties, double the rate of lung function decline and increase 5-year mortality risk by 61%. With most patients experiencing at least one exacerbation per year, and severe cases seeing 3-4 episodes annually, the burden leads to 894,000 COPD hospitalizations yearly in Europe.
Currently, there’s a lack of easy-to-use, biomarker-based remote monitoring, resulting in delayed medical intervention. An urgent need exists for a rapid, non-invasive, and accurate predictive tool for at-home monitoring to enable timely personalized interventions and reduce hospitalizations.
The goal of the COPDetect consortium is to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enhanced breathalyser for at-home monitoring of COPD patients to predict sudden worsening of symptoms, known as exacerbations, on time.
Click here for the project fiche (in portuguese).
Portuguese:
As exacerbações da Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crónica (DPOC), caracterizadas por dificuldades respiratórias graves, duplicam a taxa de declínio da função pulmonar e aumentam o risco de mortalidade a 5 anos em 61%. Com a maioria dos pacientes a sofrer pelo menos uma exacerbação por ano, e os casos graves a registarem 3 a 4 episódios anuais, a carga da doença resulta em 894.000 hospitalizações por ano na Europa.
O COPDetect fornecerá o primeiro bafómetro melhorado por IA para monitorização em tempo real e previsão de exacerbações da DPOC.
O bafómetro medirá as propriedades ópticas dos biomarcadores da doença na respiração dos pacientes, detectando alterações mínimas com alta sensibilidade.
Partners:
- Amsterdam UMC (Netherlands)
- Clinomic (Germany)
- RespiQ (Netherlands)
Websites:
Website: https://respiq.com/

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