MIPS XIII Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：医学图像感知会议XIII汇集了研究从医学图像中提取诊断信息的人员。这包括放射科医生、心理学家、统计学家、物理学家、工程师，以及这个不断发展的研究界的其他人。MIPS XIII的目标是交流当前的研究，举办教程概述，并就当前具有挑战性或“热门话题”举行专门的会议。其主要优势是其出席人数的持续增长，其研讨会设置，以及其传统的新学生和主要研究人员的聚会，这些问题是通过人类和机器阅读器从医学图像中提取诊断信息。MIPS XIII由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）心理学系和医学图像感知学会联合组织，将于2009年10月18日至10月21日在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校附近的Mar Monte酒店举行。选择了五个主题领域，每个领域都反映了放射图像解释过程的一个重要维度，与数字阅读环境特别相关：(1)人类对医学图像的感知，(2)观察者建模，(3)图像处理和计算机辅助诊断，(4)显示和人体工程学因素对图像感知和性能的影响，(5)技术评估方法，包括ROC方法和统计方法。在MIPS第十三届会议上，我们将以一系列创新的演讲为特色，探讨医学图像感知和认知神经科学之间的联系。认知神经科学是神经科学中一个快速发展的领域，它得益于非侵入性成像技术的发展，如功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）和脑电图（EEG）。这些技术使得神经科学方法可以应用于人类（而不是动物模型）的高级认知任务，如目标识别、视觉搜索和感知组织。这些任务与医学图像感知密切相关，尽管这种联系几乎完全未被探索。我们希望MIPS XIII将成为医学图像感知研究人员学习新方法和对医学图像感知相关问题感兴趣的新一组研究人员的机会。对医学图像感知研究及其与疾病预防和治疗的相关性感兴趣的年轻科学家进行高级跨学科培训的机会在大学一级往往有限。自1997年以来，MIPS得到了NIH的支持，为感兴趣的学生提供了一个参加会议的机会，展示他们的工作，并与该领域公认的领导者互动。到目前为止，已有65名学生获得奖学金参加会议。支持这些学生的主要目标是在实习生职业生涯的形成阶段创造机会并提供支持性指导，以提高他们的研究潜力和成功的可能性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Medical Image Perception Conference XIII brings together people investigating the extraction of diagnostic information from medical images. This includes radiologists, psychologists, statisticians, physicists, engineers, and others in this growing research community. The goal of MIPS XIII is to exchange current research, hold tutorial overviews, and have dedicated sessions on current challenging or "hot topics". The main strengths are its continued growth in attendance, its workshop setting, and its traditional gathering of new students and key researchers on the problem of extracting diagnostic information from medical images by human and machine readers. MIPS XIII is being organized jointly by the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) Department of Psychology and the Medical Image Perception Society, and will run October 18 through October 21, 2009 at the Hotel Mar Monte located near the UCSB campus. Five topic areas have been selected, each reflecting an important dimension of the radiologic image interpretation process, that are especially relevant for the digital reading environment: (1) Human Perception of Medical Images, (2) Observer Modeling, (3) Image Processing and Computer Aided Diagnosis, (4) Impact of display & ergonomic factors on image perception & performance, (5) Technology evaluation methods including ROC methodology and statistical methods. For the MIPS XIII conference we will feature an innovative series of presentations exploring connections between medical image perception and cognitive neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience is a rapidly growing area within neuroscience that has been aided by the development of non-invasive imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). These technologies have allowed neuroscience methods to be applied to humans (as opposed to animal models) in high-level cognitive tasks such as target recognition, visual search, and perceptual organization. These tasks are imminently relevant to medical image perception although this connection has been almost entirely unexplored. We hope that MIPS XIII will serve as an opportunity for medical image perception researchers to learn about new approaches and to interest a new set of researchers in issues related to medical image perception. Opportunities for advanced, interdisciplinary training of young scientists interested in medical image perception research and its relevance to disease prevention and treatment are often limited at the university level. Since 1997, MIPS has received NIH support to provide an opportunity for interested students to attend the meeting, present their work, and interact with recognized leaders in the field. To date, 65 students have been awarded scholarships to attend the meeting. The primary goal in supporting these students is to create opportunities and offer supportive mentoring at this formative stage in the trainee's career to enhance their research potential and likelihood of success. PUBLIC HEALTH SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT (provided by applicant): As long as radiologists continue to interpret medical images, detection of abnormalities will be the center issue in performance of diagnostic systems. We need to understand the cognitive and perceptual mechanisms underlying the report of abnormalities. This in particular stresses the multi-disciplinary nature of the MIPS conferences.