title: An engineering view on megatrends in radiology: digitization to quantitative tools of medicine.
abstract: Within six months of the discovery of X-ray in 1895, the technology was used to scan the interior of the human body, paving the way for many innovations in the field of medicine, including an ultrasound device in 1950, a CT scanner in 1972, and MRI in 1980. More recent decades have witnessed developments such as digital imaging using a picture archiving and communication system, computer-aided detection/diagnosis, organ-specific workstations, and molecular, functional, and quantitative imaging. One of the latest technical breakthrough in the field of radiology has been imaging genomics and robotic interventions for biopsy and theragnosis. This review provides an engineering perspective on these developments and several other megatrends in radiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea. namkugkim@gmail.com
authors.forename: Namkug
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jaesoon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Jaeyoun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Seungwook
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Seyoun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Yongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Joon Beom
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Seo
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000639:trends*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000639:trends*; D004867:Equipment Design; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000639:trends*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000639:trends*; D012371:Robotics; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers
keywords: Being digital; Computer-aided diagnosis; Imaging genomics, picture archiving and communication system, quantitative imaging, robotic interventions