2015 AAAS Annual Meeting (12-16 February 2015)

February 12 - 16, 2015

Improving Quality of Life by Transforming Images to Health Care Decisions

Images have become prevalent in our lives as a means of observing our surroundings at multiple scales. While the progress in developing and applying imaging sensors has been tremendous, there is still a lack of knowledge about how to transform images into decisions. This lack is especially true in applications such as medicine, where proper image interpretation could lead to better care. This session will focus on a broad range of applications where a human subject and well-being are of main concern. These applications span assisted living environments equipped with video cameras to monitor the elderly; medical imaging instruments acquiring measurements of the human body to understand anomalies (magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and ultrasound); and biomanufacturing and tissue engineering using high-throughput microscopes to guarantee quality and safety of cell therapies. Speakers will demonstrate how automated transformation of images to decisions results in better quality of life.