MICCAI 2019 Tuesday

MICCAI 2019 DAILY 6 Keynote Speaker will have achieved? What we hope in the future, for any psychiatric disorder, is that people come forward to clinicians. They have to be referred to our radiology department to have a psychoradiology assessment. We identify whether they are suffering, what the progress is, how severe, and we can predict the risk. Instead of a clinician using various questionnaires or clinical interviews asking, ‘How do you feel?’ based on a symptom or experience, we are objective, based on findings from imaging. How long do you think it will be until we get to that point? It’s very challenging. The main thing we need is a technical system to translate these findings into clinical application. It’s highly demanding to have a rigorous quality control starting from the imaging acquisition. You have to scan the patient, but before you scan you have to have a very optimized protocol and design various parameters to control the data acquisition to ensure the data you acquire is qualified for further analysis. This analytical method really depends on the audience here at MICCAI. Their expertise is so helpful for us because they can develop new analytical techniques. Once we can provide qualified data, then we have good data to play with to develop new techniques and to extract the main key feature of the disease. That kind decide what kind of disease it is, how to differentiate diagnosis, and how to use these markers to monitor disease progress. That’s a major obstacle – how to translate this psychoradiological system into a clinical setting. Also, another barrier is we really need interaction between multidisciplinary or intradisciplinary teams because this involves computational neuroscientists, biologists, mathematicians, and physicists. To put together a model that explains things? Yes. Maybe one of your students will be able to make some further advancements in this area? That I am hoping! Is it possible that the delay in progress is also due to it being easier for some people to talk about their physical health than their mental health? You yourself were very frank just now, but is the scientific community at large as ready as you are to deal with these kinds of problems? Yes, I think we are. One of the problems for people suffering from one of the many disorders though is that they don’t like to acknowledge that they are suffering. There’s a stigma.