New horizons in radiology
Today radiology is one of the fastest expanding medical fields. Complete new imaging modalities, such as MRI and subsecond multi-slice CT, enlarge our knowledge in pathology, pathophysiology, and imaging and treatment of diseases. With the introduction of these new CT-machines in clinical routine-work, new solutions for quick data-transfers, archiving and imagevisualization must be found. The new flat panel detectors close the 'digital' gap between 'conventional' radiographs and CT, MRI, etc. This is without doubt an exciting idea, which will influence our investments in years to come. All these developments increase the flood of imagedatas. Kunio Doi and his co-workers show us one possible solution: computer aided diagnosis, a field in which this group has worked for about 20 years. They have reached a stunning level of precision!