{"345641":{"#nid":"345641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NFL honors Georgia Tech-Emory team for brain injury detection system","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Football League (NFL), GE and UnderArmour have selected a team of physicians and engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University as winners in the Head Health Challenge II, a competition for new innovations intended to speed diagnosis and improve treatment for concussions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta-based team was awarded for development of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3oalhVkd3bQ\u0022\u003EiDETECT\u003C\/a\u003E (integrated Display Enhanced TEsting for Cognitive Impairment and mTBI), a rapidly deployable, easily administered, comprehensive system designed to improve neurologic assessment following mild traumatic brain injury, such as concussion sustained in athletic events and military conflict.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA total of seven winners of Head Health Challenge II were announced November 13, 2014. The winning teams, selected from more than 500 submissions, will receive $500,000 each for development of new innovations and technologies intended to identify, measure and mitigate brain injury. The first round of winners will be eligible for an additional $1 million after a second phase of judging.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EiDETECT addresses feasibility and reliability drawbacks associated with current concussion screening tools. It is an easy-to-administer, portable, and immersive system that integrates multiple concussion tests within one platform. The next generation iDETECT system will be further tested in a clinical study comparing iDETECT outcomes against other traditional separate mTBI screening tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur team is excited and honored to be selected as a winner in the NFL-GE-UA Head Health Challenge II competition,\u201d says Tamara Espinoza, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and principal investigator of the Head Health Challenge award. \u201cA tremendous amount of research and effort has gone into the development of iDETECT, and we believe it may become an essential tool in assessing sports-related concussion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOf the 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries in the United States each year, more than 750,000 are considered \u201cmild,\u201d and over 173,000 are related to recreational and sports activity. In the last decade, emergency department visits for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) among highly vulnerable populations, such as children and developing youth, have increased by more than 60 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAdequately assessing mTBI using individual, single-pathway screening methods is extremely difficult, given the complexities of neurologic injury,\u201d says Shean Phelps, principal research scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). \u201cWith this additional funding from the Head Health Challenge II, our team can more fully pursue the long-term vision of iDETECT as a multi-modal device that addresses sports-related, mild traumatic brain injury.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe DETECT project was the brainchild of David Wright, director of Emergency Neurosciences at Emory University School of Medicine and Michelle LaPlaca, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. In 2011, the project evolved from a single neurocognitive approach for detection of concussions to an extended, multi-modal platform when the partnership broadened to include the Georgia Tech Research Institute. GTRI added critical systems engineering, human factors and military medical operational expertise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMild traumatic brain injuries in youth, college and professional sports have the potential for life-changing, long-term consequences,\u201d says Wright. \u201cThe iDETECT system integrates multiple concussion testing capabilities within one platform and allows rapid and reliable assessment at the location where the injury occurred.\u201d This comprehensive approach enhances the ability to validate the on-field assessment platform and more accurately screen for traumatic injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhelps, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel adds, \u201cmTBI assessments in the military is an area that needs new approaches such as those provided by iDETECT.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPartner institutions forming the iDETECT team include Georgia Tech, Emory and the University of Rochester. The Department of Defense and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation provided financial support for development of iDETECT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Espinoza, Wright, LaPlaca and Phelps, team members include Brian Liu, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) research engineer; Stephen Smith, research engineer, Russell Gore, sports neurologist; John Brumfield, biomedical engineer; Jeff Bazarian, associate professor of emergency medicine, University of Rochester; and Courtney Crooks, GTRI senior research scientist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWritten by Emory University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Team wins competition for new innovations intended to speed diagnosis and improve treatment for concussions"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Football League, GE and UnderArmour have selected a team of physicians and engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University as winners in the Head Health Challenge II, a competition for new innovations intended to speed diagnosis and improve treatment for concussions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech-Emory team wins award from NFL for brain injury detection system."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2014-11-13 14:53:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:30","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"345611":{"id":"345611","type":"image","title":"IDETECT","body":null,"created":"1449245670","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:14:30","changed":"1475895068","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:08","alt":"IDETECT","file":{"fid":"200908","name":"idetect.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/idetect_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/idetect_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2001104,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/idetect_0.jpg?itok=dc9ZrVT5"}},"345601":{"id":"345601","type":"image","title":"iDETECT in use","body":null,"created":"1449245654","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:14:14","changed":"1475895068","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:08","alt":"iDETECT in use","file":{"fid":"200907","name":"15c10302-p2-016.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c10302-p2-016_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c10302-p2-016_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6977001,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/15c10302-p2-016_0.jpg?itok=SjSE9oUU"}},"345581":{"id":"345581","type":"image","title":"iDETECT team","body":null,"created":"1449245654","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:14:14","changed":"1475895068","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:08","alt":"iDETECT team","file":{"fid":"200906","name":"15c10302-p2-024.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c10302-p2-024_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15c10302-p2-024_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7820882,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/15c10302-p2-024_0.jpg?itok=K5fFLRd-"}}},"media_ids":["345611","345601","345581"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.headhealthchallenge.com\/","title":"Head Health Challenge"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3oalhVkd3bQ","title":"See the iDETECT video"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1912","name":"brain"},{"id":"3190","name":"concussion"},{"id":"521","name":"injury"},{"id":"12525","name":"NFL"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003ENational Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}