Join CARA Lab at ACC 2026!
The CARA lab will join the American College of Cardiology Conference 2026. Ruben van der Waerden and Rick Volleberg will present our latest work!
News
Clinician survey on OCT and AI now open
CARA Lab invites clinicians in interventional cardiology to share their perspectives on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and the use of Artificial Intelligence in clinical practice.
New study shows that OCT-AID can assess plaque burden on OCT
A new CARA Lab study demonstrates that OCT-AID can accurately quantify plaque burden from intracoronary OCT images, showing strong agreement with IVUS measurements.
CARA Lab welcomes 2 master students!
Two Technical Medicine students, Jasper Lucas and Job Meuwese, have started their graduation projects at CARA Lab.
PECTUS-AI study published in European Heart Journal
On Monday, September 1st 2025, Rick Volleberg presented our latest research as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at the ESC Congress in Madrid. Simultaneously, the study was published in the European Heart Journal.
Join CARA Lab at ESC 2025!
The CARA lab will join ESC in Madrid. Rick Volleberg will present the latest results of our research during a late breaking session!
CARA Lab's segmentation algorithm OCT-AID published in European Heart Journal - Digital Health
The first results of our deep learning based multiclass OCT segmentation have been published!
Jan-Quinten Mol successfully defends PhD thesis
On March 14, Jan-Quinten Mol successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Identifying novel risk factors for recurrent myocardial infarction."
Systematic review published in European Heart Journal - Digital Health
Ruben van der Waerden published his first first author paper: a comprehensive review on AI solutions for the analysis of intracoronary OCT
Interview with CARA Lab in "De Cardioloog"
Prof. Dr. Niels van Royen and Dr. Jos Thannhauser gave an interview in "De Cardioloog" journal. Read it by following this link!