MICCAI 2019 Tuesday

MICCAI 2019 DAILY 4 Keynote Speaker Thank you, Professor Gong, for being here with us. Can you tell us about your work? Thank you, Ralph, for giving me this opportunity to share what we are doing. My background is radiology. My students are also supposed to be radiologists in the future. Radiology is a specialized clinical department to help clinicians make decisions based on imaging findings. We support the imaging facility with radiological techniques to detect and diagnose disease. Basically, it’s like an eye for clinicians to allow them to see what’s really going on in the human body, and to diagnose diseases for patients and support in making clinical decisions and therapeutic plans. Radiology has been developed over more than 100 years, since the discovery of X-ray by Professor Roentgen, who won the first Nobel Prize in 1901. That was the birth of radiology and medical imaging. Since then, development has been heavily reliant on technical advancement. Previously, X-rays would give you a photograph – just a simple image of the bone or tissue. Since the middle of the last century, other imaging techniques have emerged, such as ultrasound, but the most important advancement for medical imaging has been magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Why is MRI so important? MRI is important because it’s not harmful to the human body. There’s no radiation involved at all. In contrast to conventional imaging techniques like X-ray and ultrasound, it’s given us so muchmore information about the human body and the tissues, from molecular level, function level, metabolism, to brain activity. It’s very powerful. However, radiologists don’t use it for psychiatric disorders, which are very common now. In modern society, lots of people suffer from mental disorders like depression. Even myself, frankly, I suffer from depression from time to time. I can acknowledge that. There’s also, anxiety, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). As radiologists, we are very capable at diagnosing a brain tumor, multiple sclerosis… Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's, yes. Good example. However, for depression and anxiety, no one uses that facility. "My students are also supposedtoberadiologists in the future."