The continuing quest for quantitative image analysis - MISS 2014 (01)

Sir Mike Brady (University of Oxford, UK) was one of the speakers of Medical Imaging Summer School (Sicily, July 28-August 1, 2014), here you can find his lecture 1: "The continuing quest for quantitative image analysis".

Abstract. Medical Image Analysis is a challenging application of Image Analysis that is characterised by: systems that work reliably every time; systems that provide information that is of use to the clinician, who is increasingly drowned in data; and systems that provide quantitative information that informs a diagnosis or therapy response.

We review some of the recent developments we have made in quantitative analysis of disease and its progression in a number of areas, particularly in cancer and liver disease. We particularly emphasise the use, and limitations, of published image analysis algorithms for segmentation, shape analysis, and parts-based registration.

Shooting: Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Mauro Sodano
Editing and post-production: Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Agata Ventura