Bruce Hasegawa Memorial Lecture - Multimodal Imaging: Fusing Images and Data
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The first prototype combined PET/CT scanner was built at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1998. Many of the concepts were either anticipated or implemented by the late Bruce Hasegawa, who had earlier constructed the first combined SPECT/CT scanner. Both multimodality combinations have been commercialized and have had a major impact on nuclear medicine and radiology. Much of the impact came from the accurate image fusion between PET or SPECT with CT. However, in the words of Robert Gilles: "Images are more than pictures, they are data" and the advent of radiomics (and AI models) has led to an explosion of research trying to make use of the perceptual and non-perceptual information contained in medical images. In addition, it is possible to combine data from other sources to improve the accuracy of predictive models using medical images. Recent results from one such effort will be presented.
3696 America/Los_Angeles publicType
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The first prototype combined PET/CT scanner was built at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1998. Many of the concepts were either anticipated or implemented by the late Bruce Hasegawa, who had earlier constructed the first combined SPECT/CT scanner. Both multimodality combinations have been commercialized and have had a major impact on nuclear medicine and radiology. Much of the impact came from the accurate image fusion between PET or SPECT with CT. However, in the words of Robert Gilles: "Images are more than pictures, they are data" and the advent of radiomics (and AI models) has led to an explosion of research trying to make use of the perceptual and non-perceptual information contained in medical images. In addition, it is possible to combine data from other sources to improve the accuracy of predictive models using medical images. Recent results from one such effort will be presented.
Speakers
Adjunct Professor of Radiation Oncology
Vice Chair of Radiology Research
Multimodal Imaging: Fusing Images and Data
Dr. Paul E. Kinahan is a Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering and the Vice-Chair of Radiology Research at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also the Head of the Imaging Research Laboratory and Clinical Director of PET/CT Imaging Physics. His research includes optimizing the physics of PET and CT imaging, the use of image reconstruction methods, objective assessment of image quality, and the use of quantitative analysis in imaging-based clinical trials. He was a member of the team that developed the first PET/CT scanner prototype, which was a TIME magazine invention of the year in 2000. He was a founding member and Chair of the NCI Quantitative Imaging Network and a founding member of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance. More recently he is the Director of the Imaging Core Lab for the ECOG-ACRIN Cooperative group. He has served as President of the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine and is currently a member of the AAPM Science Council. In 1997 he was awarded the IEEE-NPSS Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Career Award. He has received several awards for contributions in medical medicine imaging, most recently the IEEE NPSS Edward J Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award for technical contributions and education. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAPM, SNMMI, and AIMBE. Most recently he is a co-PI of the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC.org), a multi-society and multi-center initiative supported by NIH and NIBIB for rapid and flexible collection, artificial intelligence analysis, and dissemination of medical imaging and associated data.