Biomedical Imaging Informatics

Biomedical imaging is vital to patient care and increasingly prevalent in the basic sciences. Biomedical imaging informatics is a rapidly growing discipline that focuses on optimally accessing and using images, knowledge, and data associated with images in research and clinical care. These images span the scale from microscopic and molecular to whole body visualization, and encompasses many areas of clinical medicine, such as radiology, pathology, dermatology, and ophthalmology. The rapidly growing image-related data in clinical records and research studies provides enormous opportunities for discovery and personalization of patient care.

However, the number of images as well as imaging modalities is exploding, thwarting the ability of physicians and researchers to optimally use them for discovery and patient care. Imaging informatics is tackling these challenges through computational methods to provide insights into anatomic, functional, cellular and molecular aspects of disease. Biomedical imaging informatics offers the potential to diagnose disease, tailor optimum treatment, track disease response, and predict outcomes.

Ultimately, biomedical imaging informatics will enable physicians to mine the rapidly expanding image databases in hospitals and research institutions to discover new treatments and to learn the optimum treatment for their patients. In addition, a new era of "quantitative imaging" is emerging to improve accuracy and reproducibility of image interpretation, to reduce variation in practice, and to improve quality.

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