Introduction to Medical Imaging Informatics
It provides foundational knowledge for understanding informatics in medicine, potentially impacting patient care, but is incremental as an introductory overview.
This chapter introduces medical imaging informatics as a field combining medical imaging and informatics to enhance image acquisition, management, and interpretation, covering concepts like image processing and machine learning to develop tools for disease detection and prognosis.
Medical imaging informatics is a rapidly growing field that combines the principles of medical imaging and informatics to improve the acquisition, management, and interpretation of medical images. This chapter introduces the basic concepts of medical imaging informatics, including image processing, feature engineering, and machine learning. It also discusses the recent advancements in computer vision and deep learning technologies and how they are used to develop new quantitative image markers and prediction models for disease detection, diagnosis, and prognosis prediction. By covering the basic knowledge of medical imaging informatics, this chapter provides a foundation for understanding the role of informatics in medicine and its potential impact on patient care.