Ella A. Kazerooni MD, Moderator: Nothing to Disclose

1) To learn what the term precision medicine means. 2) To understand how informatics intersects with clinical radiology to enable precision medicine in practice. 3) To learn through concrete examples how informatics based radiology precision medicine impacts health

Biomarkers have been emrabced by both the scientific and regulatory communities as surrogates end points for clinical trials, paving the way for their widespread use in medicine. The field of imaging biomarkers has exploded, and the their integration into clinical practice relies heaving on and intersects with the field of bioinformatics.. Once specific biomakers are show to have value, easily integrating them into the digital environment of the radiologist and communcating them to the health care providers and or directly to patients effeiciently and seamlessly is important for their value and impact on health to be realized. Culturally, it is taking radiologists from the era of description and largely qualitative reporting, into a quantitative future state, and leveraging informatics to extract information from imaging alone ot together with data available in the electronic medical record is essential for future sucess in this new world. To get there, understanding the impact of this approach as a value of our services, and standardization of imaging technques along the lines of what the RSNA QIBA initiative is designing, are essential, so that imaging biomarkers are robust, accurate and reprodicbile. Embraching this approach enables and facilitates new appracohes, relationships of imaging and IT researchers, vendors and consumers, to fully realize the possiblities. This course will discuss and describe the overall constructs, and use tangible exams of using this in practice today and for the future. 

Kazerooni, E, Precision Medicine through Image Phenotyping.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14001873.html