{"id":12592,"date":"2025-12-16T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/?p=12592"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:24:18","slug":"news-from-the-lab-sara-ajanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/ca\/news-from-the-lab-sara-ajanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the lab: Ultrasons i IA per diagnosticar la meningitis infantil\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9m-lXKjFjiE?si=Htnu4iC7Y1omln4O\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">La meningitis \u00e9s una malaltia infecciosa greu que inflama les membranes que protegeixen el cervell i la medul\u00b7la espinal, anomenades <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">meninges<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">. Detectar-la en estadis primerencs \u00e9s essencial per evitar les seves formes m\u00e9s greus, que fins i tot poden portar a la mort. Tanmateix, el m\u00e8tode diagn\u00f2stic actual \u2014la punci\u00f3 lumbar\u2014 \u00e9s invasiu i especialment complex en beb\u00e8s, que acostumen a presentar s\u00edmptomes molt inespec\u00edfics. A m\u00e9s, en pa\u00efsos d\u2019ingressos mitjans i baixos, les puncions lumbars per al diagn\u00f2stic de meningitis es duen a terme menys sovint que en pa\u00efsos d\u2019ingressos alts, ja que s\u00f3n proves costoses per a les quals cal especialitzaci\u00f3 i recursos elevats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Hi ha alguna manera de millorar i facilitar el diagn\u00f2stic de meningitis? <\/span><b>Sara Ajanovic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">, pediatra investigadora de l\u2019ISGlobal i l\u2019Hospital Vall d\u2019Hebron, presenta en aquest <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">News From the Lab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> una alternativa prometedora.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12612\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12612\" class=\"wp-image-12612\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CR-x-NFTL_Thumbnail4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CR-x-NFTL_Thumbnail4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CR-x-NFTL_Thumbnail4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CR-x-NFTL_Thumbnail4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CR-x-NFTL_Thumbnail4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CR-x-NFTL_Thumbnail4-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Participants en el desenvolupament de Neosonics.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Per afrontar aquest repte, l\u2019equip ha desenvolupat, conjuntament amb la start-up <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kriba.es\/dispositivos-medicos\/newborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Kriba,<\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0una eina no invasiva anomenada Neosonics,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> que combina ultrasons d\u2019alta precisi\u00f3 amb intel\u00b7lig\u00e8ncia artificial per detectar signes primerencs de meningitis en nounats i lactants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">El dispositiu aprofita la <\/span><b>fontanel\u00b7la<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">, l\u2019obertura natural del crani encara no ossificat, per analitzar en tan sols dos minuts el l\u00edquid cefalorraquidi mitjan\u00e7ant t\u00e8cniques de <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">deep learning <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">d\u2019intel\u00b7lig\u00e8ncia artificial. Aix\u00ed identifica la pres\u00e8ncia de c\u00e8l\u00b7lules inflamat\u00f2ries sense necessitat de fer una punci\u00f3 lumbar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Per validar aquesta innovaci\u00f3, l\u2019equip va estudiar m\u00e9s de <\/span><b>200 beb\u00e8s menors de 24 mesos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> a Espanya, el Marroc i Mo\u00e7ambic. En comparaci\u00f3 amb la punci\u00f3 lumbar, Neosonics va aconseguir classificar correctament <\/span><b>el 94\u2009% dels casos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">, diferenciant entre l\u00edquid cefalorraquidi normal i afectat per meningitis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Els resultats, publicats a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41390-025-04179-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Pediatric Research<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">, mostren que Neosonics podria esdevenir un gran aven\u00e7 per al diagn\u00f2stic r\u00e0pid, f\u00e0cil, econ\u00f2mic, segur i efica\u00e7 de la meningitis infantil. \u00c9s una tecnologia que no tan sols evita un procediment invasiu, sin\u00f3 que tamb\u00e9 pot contribuir de manera decisiva a la lluita global contra aquesta malaltia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9m-lXKjFjiE?si=Htnu4iC7Y1omln4O\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">\ufeff<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>La meningitis \u00e9s una malaltia infecciosa greu que inflama les membranes que protegeixen el cervell i la medul\u00b7la espinal, anomenades <i>meninges<\/i>. Detectar-la en estadis primerencs \u00e9s essencial per evitar les seves formes m\u00e9s greus, que fins i tot poden portar a la mort. Tanmateix, el m\u00e8tode diagn\u00f2stic actual \u2014la punci\u00f3 lumbar\u2014 \u00e9s invasiu i especialment complex en beb\u00e8s, que acostumen a presentar s\u00edmptomes molt inespec\u00edfics. A m\u00e9s, en pa\u00efsos d\u2019ingressos mitjans i baixos, les puncions lumbars per al diagn\u00f2stic de meningitis es duen a terme menys sovint que en pa\u00efsos d\u2019ingressos alts, ja que s\u00f3n proves costoses per a les quals cal especialitzaci\u00f3 i recursos elevats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hi ha alguna manera de millorar i facilitar el diagn\u00f2stic de meningitis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,519],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divulgacio-cientifica","category-investigacio"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>News from the lab: Ultrasons i IA per diagnosticar la meningitis infantil\u00a0 - Blog CaixaCi\u00e8ncia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/ca\/news-from-the-lab-sara-ajanovic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ca_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News from the lab: Ultrasons i IA per diagnosticar la meningitis infantil\u00a0 - Blog CaixaCi\u00e8ncia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\ufeff La meningitis \u00e9s una malaltia infecciosa greu que inflama les membranes que protegeixen el cervell i la medul\u00b7la espinal, anomenades meninges. 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