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Guidelines and Experience Using Imaging Biomarker Explorer (IBEX) for Radiomics
Published on: January 8, 2018
An engineering view on megatrends in radiology: digitization to quantitative tools of medicine
Namkug Kim1, Jaesoon Choi, Jaeyoun Yi
1Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea. namkugkim@gmail.com
Abstract:
Within six months of the discovery of X-ray in 1895, the technology was used to scan the interior of the human body, paving the way for many innovations in the field of medicine, including an ultrasound device in 1950, a CT scanner in 1972, and MRI in 1980. More recent decades have witnessed developments such as digital imaging using a picture archiving and communication system, computer-aided detection/diagnosis, organ-specific workstations, and molecular, functional, and quantitative imaging. One of the latest technical breakthrough in the field of radiology has been imaging genomics and robotic interventions for biopsy and theragnosis. This review provides an engineering perspective on these developments and several other megatrends in radiology.
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