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Research Mission To discover novel ways of detecting disease and predicting outcomes using medical imaging... Medical doctors today have at their disposal a marvellous range of technologies for taking pictures from inside the living body. The venerable projection radiograph using X-rays is still a mainstay of diagnostic imaging over a hundred years after its invention. More recently, other modalities have been developed that employ a variety of probes to show the structure as well as the function of the human body (CT, MRI, ultrasonography, PET, SPECT, and others). The amount of image data obtained each time a patient is scanned is vast, and it has to be boiled down to the salient information. This is image interpretation: understanding images so as to know whether and how to treat the patient. Image interpretation is a highly developed skill: diagnostic radiology training takes years in addition to basic medical training. It also takes time: a single patient's CT of the abdomen, for..

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