Population imaging as valuable tool for personalized medicine.
Personalized medicine is commonly regarded as an extension of genomic medicine. However, a personalized treatment should not [corrected] be based solely on the presence or absence of genetic factors. Complex imaging methods supplement the diagnostic picture of an individual patient. Comprehensive imaging in population-based settings provides information on reference intervals, the predictive value of subclinical findings, and the complex interrelationships among risk factors, subclinical imaging phenotypes, and diseases.
Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. voelzke@uni-greifswald.de
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