MIPS XIII Conference

描述(由申请者提供)：第十三届医学图像感知会议汇集了研究从医学图像中提取诊断信息的人们。这包括放射科医生、心理学家、统计学家、物理学家、工程师，以及这个日益增长的研究社区中的其他人。MIPS XIII的目标是交流当前的研究，举行教程概述，并就当前具有挑战性的或“热门话题”举行专门的会议。它的主要优势是出席人数的持续增长，研讨会的安排，以及传统上新学生和关键研究人员聚集在一起，讨论由人和机器读者从医学图像中提取诊断信息的问题。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举办，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马蒙特酒店举行。选择了五个主题领域，每个主题领域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。对于MIPS XIII会议，我们将以一系列创新的演讲为特色，探索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迅速发展的领域，它得益于非侵入性成像技术的发展，如功能磁共振成像(FMRI)和脑电(EEG)。这些技术使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、视觉搜索和知觉组织。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没有被探索过。我们希望MIPS XIII将作为一个机会，让医学图像感知研究人员了解新的方法，并让一批新的研究人员对与医学图像感知相关的问题感兴趣。在大学一级，对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跨学科高级培训的机会往往有限。自1997年以来，MIPS一直得到美国国立卫生研究院的支持，为感兴趣的学生提供参加会议、展示他们的工作并与该领域公认的领导者互动的机会。到目前为止，已有65名学生获得了参加会议的奖学金。支持这些学生的主要目标是在受训人员职业生涯的这个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。 公共卫生意义声明(申请人提供)：只要放射科医生继续解释医学图像，异常检测将是诊断系统性能的中心问题。我们需要了解异常报告背后的认知和感知机制。这特别强调了MIPS会议的多学科性质。

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.