com2care_website/templates/pages/about.html

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{% block title %}What is Tecvico{% endblock %}
{% block meta_description %}Learn about Tecvico Corp and ViSERA — Visualized & Standardized Environment for Radiomics Analysis, developed at UBC and BC Cancer Research Institute.{% endblock %}

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      <div class="section-badge">About</div>
      <h1 class="page-hero-title" id="page-hero-heading">What is Tecvico?</h1>
      <p class="page-hero-subtitle">
        Visualized &amp; Standardized Environment for Radiomics Analysis
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        <h2 id="about-intro-heading">Desktop Software for Medical Imaging Research</h2>
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          <li>Desktop software to improve usability, reusability, and reproducibility in medical imaging &amp; healthcare research.</li>
          <li>Development platform to create reproducible research workflows by connecting different tools.</li>
          <li>Useful for collaborative research projects and for ensuring consistency across different studies.</li>
          <li>User-friendly for different expertise levels, including radiation oncologists, radiologists, physicists &amp; data scientists.</li>
        </ul>
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      <div class="section-badge">Standards</div>
      <h2 class="section-title" id="standardization-heading">Standardization</h2>
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        <div class="standard-badge">IBSI 1.0</div>
        <h3 class="standard-title">Radiomic Feature Extraction</h3>
        <p class="standard-desc">
          ViSERA is a python-based open-source package that enables standardized and
          reproducible radiomic feature extraction in compliance with the Image Biomarker
          Standardization Initiative (IBSI 1.0).
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        <div class="standard-badge">IBSI 2.0</div>
        <h3 class="standard-title">Image Filtering</h3>
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          Image filters have been standardized against IBSI 2.0 by implementing and
          validating several filter options, ensuring reproducibility across research
          institutions worldwide.
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        <div class="standard-badge">Python</div>
        <h3 class="standard-title">Open Source</h3>
        <p class="standard-desc">
          ViSERA is a major, entirely-revamped upgrade to the original SERA (Matlab-based),
          now built on Python for broader accessibility and community contribution.
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        <div class="standard-badge">End-to-End</div>
        <h3 class="standard-title">Standardized Workflows</h3>
        <p class="standard-desc">
          ViSERA employs a number of popular image processing algorithms to create
          end-to-end standardized workflows for consistent, reproducible research results.
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        <div class="section-badge">History</div>
        <h2 id="history-heading">Our Origins</h2>
        <p>
          Tecvico (formerly known as Visera) has been developing since 2021 by the
          Quantitative Radiomolecular Imaging and Therapy (Qurit) lab &amp; program at the
          University of British Columbia &amp; BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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        <p>
          Our mission is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge radiomics research and
          practical clinical application by providing standardized, reproducible, and
          user-friendly software tools.
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          <a href="https://www.qurit.ca" class="btn-ghost" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Qurit Lab</a>
          <a href="https://www.ubc.ca" class="btn-ghost" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UBC</a>
          <a href="https://www.bccrc.ca" class="btn-ghost" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BC Cancer</a>
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        <div class="history-year">2021</div>
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