Dear Advanced Visualization Insider,
The growing role of advanced visualization technology in radiology was on full display at this month's Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting in Providence, RI.
In scientific sessions as well as SIIM U talks, presentations on 3D, CAD, and image processing brought attendees up to speed on how to best utilize these tools in their practices.
For example, a multi-institutional research team found significant variation among different automated analysis tools in measuring the maximum diameter of pulmonary nodules, owing to their different calculation approaches. Therefore, unless standardized, maximum dimension is an unreliable marker of tumor size, even when using automated analysis tools, according to presenter Dr. Woojin Kim of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Kim's talk is the subject of this month's Insider Exclusive article, which you can access before it is published for the rest of our AuntMinnie.com members. To learn more about lung nodule measurement variations between different automated analysis tools, click here.
In other coverage from the SIIM meeting, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore found that the ability to identify patients from their 3D surface-rendered facial images was still relatively low. For that article, click here.
Be sure to check back in on your Advanced Visualization Digital Community in the coming weeks for additional coverage from SIIM 2007.
