The osteoporosis work, written up
UToledo News photographed the three of us for its story on the risk tool. It is the article that let me print the accuracy figure I had been holding back.
Photo: UToledo News
UToledo News · 8 September 2026
The university reported a tool that reads osteoporosis risk from CT scans patients have already had, instead of the separate DEXA scan screening normally needs, identifying at-risk patients with approximately 88% accuracy.
It covered the next phase too: extending past the upper femur to the hip and spine, and standardising across scanners from different health systems.
NSF I-Corps grant
- Amount
- $50,000
- Funder
- National Science Foundation, through UToledo’s I-Corps program
- Year
- 2026
- For
- Testing and customer discovery for the osteoporosis risk tool
Patent application
- For
- Osteoporosis risk model
- Status
- Filed, not granted
- Filed
- 2026, through the University of Toledo Technology Transfer Office