| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L53588/01 |
| Title: |
COMPUTER SUPPORT IN NEURORADIOLOGY VIA INTERACTIVE OVERVIEWS OF DISEASE SPACES |
| Principal Investigator: |
du Boulay, Professor B |
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Sch of Engineering and Informatics |
| Organisation: |
University of Sussex |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 September 1998 |
Ends: |
31 March 2002 |
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158,301
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The detail available in MR images, sensitivity of images to sequence type, variability of presentation and partial understanding among experts of the relationship between the appearance of brain lesions and the nature of the disease makes detailed diagnosis of brain diseases particularly challenging and potentially rewarding. Significant progress in the support of radiological interpretation in practice is only likely to be made if an integrated approach is adopted using a combination of methods but allowing for the uncertainty and imprecision in the tasks involved and allocating tasks between the computer and the clinician that make maximal use of the expertise. As a multidisciplinary team with direct access to users, our contribution to the Healthcare Informatics Programme will be to develop technology to support reasoning about medical images under uncertainty and imprecision. We will develop and extend an existing prototype system with its archive of images and expert descriptions, explore methods of supplementing the expert's descriptions with data derived from semi-auotmatic image analysis techniques applied to those parts of the image (already identified by the expert) as containing a lesion and conduct in-depth studies of radiologists' comprehension and mental visualisation of the variations of image space inhabited by populations of diseases.
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk |