The center was established to create a clinically driven, validated ICT platform for cardiology that
will enable a major change in individualized healthcare, providing the best possible treatment and
risk prevention by using big data and artificial intelligence. Based on leading edge research, this
platform will facilitate fusion and analysis of rich and diverse data, integrating a wealth of
available information into the workflow of clinical cardiology, and tailor individual care to prevent
over- and undertreatment.
The ProCardio Center for Innovation is comprised of 11 partners with OUS being the host partner.
Each partner represents a unique and required element in the research and development chain
leading to the industrial innovations targeted by ProCardio.
In 2022, the collaboration between ProCardio and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 MARCIUS
project has been strengthened. The two MARCIUS ESRs working with GE Vingmed Ultrasound are
well aligned with ProCardio and have achieved interesting results relevant to the consortium. The
MARCIUS project is an international collaboration involving GE Vingmed Ultrasound, UiO, the
universities of Maastricht (NL) and Leiden (B), as well as
Jessa Hospital (B) and the company MedaPhor/Intelligent
Ultrasound (UK). By this collaboration, the ProCardio
consortium has access to highly reputed international
researchers and domain experts within ultrasound
simulation and deep learning.
Simula has a particularly extensive collaboration with UCSD (called SUURPh) which focuses on
research training and the exchange of PhD candidates within scientific data processing and
biomedical applications, primarily related to cardiac physiology, running an annual summer school
which has quickly become a premier venue for education within computational cardiology.
In addition, Simula has a close collaboration with UC Berkeley through the project SIMBER (The
Simula Berkeley Education and Research Collaboration), funded through the INTPART programme.
Read the report in full:
ProCardio Annual Report 2022 FINAL.pdf