From medical images to clinical care – the long and winding road (Guest Talk)

This presentation will first briefly discuss the relevance of using medical image analysis and visualization in health care, and thereafter present a number of example clinical applications of image analysis and visualization in the domains of cardiovascular, neurological and oncological disease. The focus will be on using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Despite the enormous amount of medical imaging research and development performed in the last decades, only a very limited number of applications are currently routinely used in clinical practice. The road from idea to a clinically adopted and widely used application will be reviewed in order to create insight into the many steps to be taken to develop and introduce truly meaningful innovations.