ROMÉO RICCI, 2026 FORCE TROPHY WINNER, WITH HIS DIGIA PROJECT
DIGIA: SAVING TIME TO SAVE THE LIVES OF MULTIPLE-TRAUMA PATIENTS, THANKS TO AI
In a severely injured polytrauma patient, every minute counts!
Fractures, haemorrhages, brain, chest or abdominal injuries… imaging makes it possible to quickly identify injuries, but it also generates a considerable amount of data that medical teams must analyse in an emergency and under intense pressure.
It is from this challenge that DIGIA was born, a project led by Professor Roméo Ricci at Strasbourg University Hospitals, in partnership with IGBMC, and supported by the FORCE Foundation.
- The idea: to use artificial intelligence to orchestrate all imaging examinations in order to generate a dynamic risk score, updated in real time as new data become available.
- The objective: to transform triage, which is currently carried out in an emergency and based on information that arrives progressively, into a better-informed decision-making process. The aim is to enable healthcare professionals to identify critical abnormalities more quickly and prioritise them according to their severity, while providing a clearer overall picture of the patient's condition when decisions need to be made.
The tool is not intended to replace radiologists or emergency physicians. It is designed to provide them with rapid, structured support, the reliability of which will need to be evaluated.
For this project, Roméo Ricci received a 2026 FORCE Trophy, one of the ten distinctions awarded by the Foundation this year.
The FORCE Foundation is also celebrating its 35th anniversary. Born from the commitment of Robert Lohr and Strasbourg surgeons who pioneered organ transplantation, it has pursued the same ambition for three and a half decades: to give a boost to researchers who, like Roméo Ricci, are working to advance research and make a tangible difference to patients' lives.
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