It begins with a talk on saving body and mind in the reading room by Dr. Eliot Siegel, a professor of radiology and imaging informatics guru at the University of Maryland. It is followed by a presentation on surviving a change in information systems by Dr. Steven Horii from the University of Pennsylvania. And it ends with a talk by radiologist Dr. Adam Flanders from Thomas Jefferson University called "So Many Images, so Little Time."
This presentation is both a historical synopsis of the evolution of digital medical imaging and an inventory of the modern tools available to radiologists, Horii said.
"It also offers a quick glimpse into the future, of things that we can anticipate to have available at the point of care in the very near future," he said.
Horii will discuss the initial development of soft-copy reading, stack and volumetric methods, modern routing of advanced visualization data, and methods of reconstruction. Computer-aided detection (CAD), physiologic imaging, segmentation, treatment response algorithms, and stereotactic imaging for therapeutic planning also will be discussed. Finally, the underpinnings of machine learning/intelligence and how it will augment radiology workflow and improve delivery of service will be presented.
