EPSRC-NIHR HTC Partnership Award 'Plus': Medical Image Analysis Network (MedIAN)

EPSRC-NIHR医疗技术合作伙伴关系网络在医学图像分析旨在将英国领先的医学图像分析研究人员聚集在一起，以确定在NIHR心血管HTC和结肠直肠治疗HTC的高发病率/未满足需求的临床领域内的医学图像分析方法研究的新机会。HTC正在与患者团体和临床医生合作，以确定这些领域未满足的临床需求。医学图像分析网络（MedIAN）的目的是将具有不同技能和经验的成像科学家聚集在一起，以考虑如何获取图像和分析图像（及相关信息）的技术进步可以应用于解决其中一些问题。该网络的主要目的是鼓励学术医疗技术人员，临床医生和行业合作伙伴之间建立新的合作，以开发和评估新的解决方案。网络成员共同负责解决当今最困难的医学图像分析问题。希望由此产生的研究将导致新的基于图像的生物标志物和量化方法，这将允许更早地检测疾病，并更好地对疾病进行分层，以便为患者选择最合适的治疗，新的基于图像的定量工具将提高干预和治疗的成功率，MedIAN是如何实现这一目标的？MedIAN鼓励通过与其他网络/组织的科学会议，允许临床医生评估当前方法的临床准备活动以及允许国际医学图像分析社区对给定临床问题进行基准测试的挑战赛来发展新的合作。这个新的奖项将增加现有的一个，使一些新的活动运行：英国研究小组之间的人员和知识交流的早期职业研究人员，医学图像分析黑客马拉松，范围研讨会，以帮助工作的补助金提案和促进两个国家会议的早期职业研究人员（ECR）在医学图像分析工作，这将由ECR运行。新的奖项还将建立一个新的互联网资源，旨在成为英国医学图像分析研究人员和那些希望与他们合作的人的焦点信息门户。

The EPSRC-NIHR Healthcare Technology Co-operatives Partnership Network in Medical Image Analysis seeks to bring leading UK researchers in medical image analysis together to identify new opportunities for medical image analysis methodology research within the clinical areas of high morbidity/unmet need of the NIHR Cardiovascular HTC and HTC in Colorectal Therapies.The HTCs are working with patient groups and clinicians on identifying unmet clinical needs in these areas. An aim of the Medical Image Analysis Network (MedIAN) is to bring together imaging scientists with different skills sets and experiences to consider how technological advances in how images are acquired and images (and associated information) are analysed can be applied to solve some of these problems. The primary purpose of the Network is to encourage new collaborations to be set up between academic healthcare technologists, clinicians and industry partners to develop and evaluate new solutions. Network members are jointly tasked to work on some of the hardest medical image analysis problems there are today. The hope is that the resulting research will lead to new image-based biomarkers and quantification methods which will allow earlier detection of disease, and better stratification of disease so that the most appropriate therapy can be selected for a patient, and new image-based quantitative tools will lead to increases success of interventions and therapies and improve theoverall well-being of patients with these conditions.How is MedIAN aiming achieve this goal? MedIAN is encouraging the development of new collaborations through scientific meetings with other networks/organisations, Clinical Readiness events which allow clinicians to evaluate current methods, and Challenge competitions which allow the international medical image analysis community to benchmark method on given clinical problems. This new award will augment the existing one by enabling a number of new activities to be run: People and Knowledge Exchanges between UK research groups for early career researchers, Medical Image Analysis hackathons, Scoping Workshops to help work-up grant proposals and the facilitation of two national meetings for early career researchers (ECRs) working in medical image analysis which will be run by ECRs for ECRs. The new award will also enable a new internet resource to be set up which aims to be a focal information portal for UK medical image analysis researchers and those who wish to work with them.