Visual and interactive computing for surgery and medicine

在这个数据丰富的时代，使用计算来帮助我们解释和理解我们对物理世界的观察有很多尚未开发的潜力。在医学领域，我们现在拥有前所未有的能力来对人体进行成像，并生成丰富的三维图像数据存储库。尽管成像技术取得了进步，但今天大多数医生仍然像检查一张胶片一样检查图像，这严重限制了他们可以有效地从数据中提取的知识和理解。拟议研究计划的中心主题是调查视觉和交互计算技术，这些技术将改善临床医生、科学家和受训人员理解、解释和利用医学图像的方式。

In this data-rich era, there is much untapped potential to use computing to help us interpret and understand our observations of the physical world. In the domain of medicine, we now have an unprecedented ability to image the human body and generate repositories of rich, three-dimensional image data. Despite advances in imaging technologies, most physicians today still examine images as if they were on a sheet of film, severely limiting the knowledge and understanding they can efficiently extract from the data. The central theme of the proposed research program is the investigation of visual and interactive computing techniques that will improve the way clinicians, scientists, and trainees are able to understand, interpret, and utilize medical images.