The development of China's advanced digital medical imaging technology imperative

Recently, the theme of "advanced digital medical imaging and clinical application of the opportunities and challenges" Oriental science and Technology Forum held in Shanghai.

Experts from home and abroad advanced digital medical imaging technology opportunities and challenges, our advanced digital medical imaging technology development and application of the Act, how to develop our medical imaging informatics and applications technologies, and other topics for in-depth study.

"In medical imaging and information technology and research, science and medical system and other problems, caused my medical informatics/imaging informatics research and technology development in backward, or even empty.

"This is Dingbo, Xue Yong-Ki, zuxiang fellows and other scholars of 30 experts expressed concern on the Forum.

Their analysis of the reasons that our digital medicine and medical imaging information technology development and clinical application of the divorce of hospital development needs of the country unable to cope with the rapid development of digital image technology and application challenges and problems.

They suggested that the development of advanced digital medical imaging technology.

Meeting of the Executive Chairman, Shanghai Jiwusuo researcher, United States University of Southern California visiting Professor, Department of Radiology Hirsch in entitled Advanced digital medical imaging technology and clinical applications and challenges "keynote address, advanced digital medical devices and technology for the clinical application of broad, promoted the medical health industry constantly to the development of digital direction.

"Medical digital imaging and image processing technology is the digital medical technology important component.

"Hirsch emphasized," hospital digital medical activities not only need a digital medical devices and equipment, and the need to build powerful, interactive digital medical information platform system. "In pursuit of high-quality medical service quality and reduce medical costs double driver, to patients based on the number of medical information is beyond the medical diagnosis and treatment activities of a hospital-wide, in a zone (or hospital group) and within the time period to provide continuous, consistent coordinated medical services, to improve the level and efficiency of medical treatment, to reduce the possible medical incidents, reduce duplicate check, save health care costs.

With advanced digital medical imaging technology, medical imaging from gets human organ macroscopic structure information to microscopic molecular imaging feature information (DNA and gene function) of all ethnicities and resolution is extremely high, image data volume growth.

In the past five years, advanced digital medical imaging technologies, such as 64/128/256-multidetector CT (computer tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), PET/CT and molecular imaging, clinical application of rapid promotion at home and abroad. Digital medical imaging and treatment patterns revolutionized changes, such as diagnostic imaging diagnosis from qualitative to quantitative change, image-guided therapy in many specialist (cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, thoracic, etc.) application, radiographic diagnostic and interventional therapy phase fusion, etc. New digital medical imaging technology and the system of another feature is that the image data type, the amount of data. From here on existing imaging and treatment network support platform system (e.g., a picture archiving and communication system, PACS) in the technical architecture, data flow control, image processing and display patterns, images, communications and storage, an enormous challenge. On the other hand, the high-end x-ray imaging equipment of excessive use, may cause further harm to patients, has been in international medical radiology caused great concern.

Conference Executive Chairman Peter Huang-hwan is a United States University of Southern California School of medicine, Department of Radiology and biomedical engineering, lifetime honorary professor, is the international digital radiology research of one of the founders.

He said, the international computer-aided detection (CAD), and diagnostic decision support technology has gradually entered the stage of clinical application and it is proved that the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the correct decision with great support. CAD technology mostly in through one or more acquisition of medical data (images, graphs, discrete data, etc.) for a large number of statistical analysis and pattern recognition based on, is a large-scale database information to the knowledge base and expert library or tool works. The earliest clinical application limited to CAD in x-ray detection of breast cancer adjuvant. In recent years, with the CAD in advanced digital medical imaging system and post-processing system applications, CAD as digital imaging diagnosis important content value-added services, and progressive integration into the digital medical workflow.

How to use the limited network and storage resources to handle large volumes of medical information, the cost of promoting controlled human medical health level, becoming a digital medical imaging research areas to be addressed one of the key issues.

Many experts believe that the international development of medical imaging technology, has been focus from the pursuit of image resolution steps for image content acquisition, storage, communication, research and development in the mining process, namely the development of image-content-based image processing techniques and applications, in medical diagnosis and treatment process, looking for quality and efficiency of health care for medical payment schemes and approaches, in cost-controlled premise to improve healthcare quality and efficiency of service.

Hirsch explains that, in order to make the expensive image information as possible for medical treatment, rehabilitation assessment service bring more medical value, making the image information chain to continuously extend and persistent use, a specialized research Imaging information chain of emerging disciplines have emerged, namely the medical imaging informatics.

The new imaging technology of mass use and transmission of image data is stored, a new type of medical and clinical pathways, evidence-based medicine development needs, and to build efficient, durable, medical services and value-added services to the powerful medical imaging information chain and bring new challenges.

Data show that China's new digital medical imaging technology and clinical applications, compared with foreign countries is a big gap.

Our large and medium-sized cities of tertiary hospital in recent years despite the introduction of high-performance large imaging device, but the image data and information with remains in a passive state, lack of powerful digital medical images processing platform, many of the new image processing capabilities, and value-added services will not be able to play a role in making new digital imaging equipment value is fully exploited.

Participants specifically

Company strongly urged the relevant authorities should step up to the development of advanced digital medical imaging technology support, and proposed to further enhance imaging technology in clinical effectiveness and expand innovative medical technologies and products in the field of medical health applications.